Filidor

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Filidor was the pseudonym of a German poet and composer who lived in Saxony in the 18th century .

Works

Filidor published songs and poems in the Göttingen Musenalmanaks . In 1788 his works were published by the Leipziger Verlag Göschen under the title Poems by Filidor, with music . He mainly deals with the topics of nature and virtues such as frugality and charity.

Life

Little is known about his identity. The foreword to the book published in 1788 is signed with HCL Senf . According to Johann Georg Meusel , he was a priest from the Electoral Saxony who died in 1793. In contrast, Friedrich Raßmann gives January 19, 1814 as the date of death. Ferdinand Avenarius mentions Heinrich Christian Ludwig Senf as the full name .

Other authors suspect that behind the pseudonym of the Leipzig legal scholar Heinrich Christian Leb (e) there is really mustard .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review of poems by Filidor, with music in Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , year 1789, Volume 2, No. 170, pp. 549f
  2. ↑ Georg Christoph Hamberger and Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland , 5th edition, Volume 10, Lemgo 1803
  3. ^ Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 , Volume 13, Leipzig 1815
  4. ^ Friedrich Raßmann: Deutscher Dichternekrolog , Nordhausen 1818
  5. ^ Ferdinand Avenarius: Hausbuch deutscher Lyrik. Slightly abridged pocket edition without pictures on good thin printing paper . 131st to 140th thousand, Munich around 1915, p. 312
  6. ^ Hyacinth Holland:  Senf, HCL In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Filidor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mustard, HCL
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 18th century or 19th century