Franz Seraph Destouches

Franz Seraph Destouches (born January 21, 1772 in Munich ; † December 10, 1844 there ) was a German musician and composer.

Life

Destouches was a son of the Bavarian court chamber councilor Joseph des Touches and his wife Sabina. He received his musical training from Theodor Grünberger and Joseph Haydn . He played the cello in the orchestra of Prince Esterházy and went on concert tours as a piano player to Austria and Switzerland. In 1791 he wrote the opera Die Thomasnacht, to which his older brother Joseph Anton contributed the libretto .

After two years as music director of the city of Erlangen , Destouches entered the service of Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar as concertmaster in 1799 and later as court conductor . In Weimar he wrote plays for Friedrich Schiller's dramas Wallenstein's Camp , Turandot , The Bride of Messina , The Maiden of Orléans and Wilhelm Tell , August von Kotzebue's The Hussites in front of Naumburg in 1432 and Zacharias Werner's Wanda, Queen of the Sarmatians . He also composed the operettas The Misunderstanding and The Aloe, the oratorio The Adoration at the Grave of Jesus, the text of which was written by Johann Gottfried Herder , and numerous instrumental pieces.

Destouches taught music at the University of Landshut from 1811 to 1814 , then worked as Kapellmeister to the Prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein and from 1820 as Hessian court conductor in Homburg in front of the height . In 1842 he returned to his native Munich, where the “very old but still cheerful, cheerful old man” composed the comic opera Der Teufel und der Schneider to a libretto by his nephew Ulrich .

Destouches, whose marriage to Wilhelmine van Couven had remained childless, died in 1844.

tomb

Grave of Franz Destouches on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The grave of Franz Destouches is located in the old southern cemetery in Munich (grave field 18 - row 1 - place 16) location . Other family members lie in this grave: Destouches, Ulrich von; October 14, 1802 (Amberg / Opf.) - January 27, 1863 (Munich); Destouches, Barbara von; April 24, 1812 - November 30, 1829; Destouches, Amalie von (vh) / Schneider (gb); May 27, 1813 - September 3, 1854; Destouches, Marie von (vh) / Hayn, von (gb); October 3, 1816 - April 25, 1866; Destouches, Michael von; December 19, 1795 - March 6, 1880; Destouches, Ernst von; 4.1.1843 (Munich) - 24.4.1916 (Munich); Writer and city archivist.

literature

• Ernst von Destouches : From my youth! G. Franz, Munich 1866, p. vi – viii ( books.google.de ).
• Rochus von Liliencron :  Destouches . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 77.
• Alfons Ott:  Destouches, Franz Seraph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 618 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst von Destouches: From the youth! Munich 1866, p. vii .
2. ↑ Website on graves in the Old Southern Cemetery  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.