Friedrich Adolph Mackrott
Friedrich Adolph Mackrott (born July 23, 1811 in Schleswig ; † May 1, 1880 there ) was a German musician.
Life
Friedrich Adolph Mackrott was the son of the Schleswig town musician Johann Georg Friedrich Mackrott († 1840) and his wife Christina Sophie, daughter of the town musician Friedrich Adolf Berwald (* 1748 in Schleswig , † after 1778 ibid). In 1815, his father acquired the Königshof inn at Kornmarkt 3 in Schleswig, which went under under his management, whereupon his father set up a private house with a shop on the ground floor; Friedrich Adolph Mackrott lived in his parents' house until his death.
He was supposed to start his father's career and he taught him to play the violin. His father then sent him to Hamburg to take practical and theoretical music lessons from a professional musician.
After his return he was able to replace his ailing father after a short time; the audience honored it with thanks and appreciation. After the death of his father, he was able to assert himself against numerous candidates, including court and chamber musicians, to fill the position . The government pleaded for his employment in a letter of recommendation to the German chancellery in Copenhagen and to the magistrate, with the note that he had the Goal of carrying out concerts .
In 1840 he was appointed town musician.
As the successor to Carl Gottlieb Bellmann , composer of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lied , he headed the Schleswig-Holstein Choral Society from 1839 for decades and was significantly involved in the preparation of a singing festival in this role and as town musician. The Schleswig Liedertafel invited all the choirs of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein to a great song festival on July 24, 1844; the Schleswig-Holstein song was presented for the first time at this song festival. The song quickly became popular after its performance at the song festival and also became a battle song for freedom and independence.
He also took part in the first German song festival in Würzburg the following year in August .
When the Prussian authorities wanted to abolish the musician's privilege in 1865, after virtuosos , military bands, "beer fiddlers" and dancers had to buy permission to make music from the town musicians, he saw his rights curtailed, went to court and won the case.
Friedrich Adolph Mackrott was buried in the Schleswig Cathedral Cemetery; with his death the musicians' privilege was also abolished.
literature
- Friedrich Adolph Mackrott . In: Bernd Philipsen: Schleswiger heads . Husum 2013. ISBN 978-3-89876-671-5 . P. 92 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mirko Soll: Verrechtlichte Musik: The Town Musicians of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein . Waxmann Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8309-6586-2 ( google.de [accessed on August 4, 2020]).
- ↑ Historic inns. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mackrott, Friedrich Adolph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schleswig |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1880 |
| Place of death | Schleswig |