Friedrich Christian Bressand

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Friedrich Christian Bressand (* around 1670 in Durlach ; † April 11, 1699 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German poet and opera librettist of the Baroque period .

Life

Bressand's all too short life was mainly in the service of German courts. From his birth as the son of the margravial mouth cook in the Baden residential city of Durlach to his death in the Brunswick capital of Wolfenbüttel, he was always surrounded by courtly ceremonies. When the castle and town of Durlach were destroyed by French troops in 1689, he was forced to flee. Thanks to family ties, he found refuge at the court of the art-loving and opera-loving Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig , who had the opera house built on Hagenmarkt in Braunschweig in 1690 .

Since the duke wrote opera libretti himself, Bressand advanced quickly and was able to support him in organizing theatrical events. Beginning with German arrangements of French and Italian operas, he soon created a significant number of his own opera libretti with easily composable texts, which were so popular with the composers of the time that many of his libretti were composed several times. Even in the Hamburg opera on Gänsemarkt , which is richly supplied with librettists , his operatic poems were valued, and were even highly recognized by poets of the rank of Christian Heinrich Postel . It was only at the age of twenty-nine that Bressand suddenly died in Wolfenbüttel after ten years of extremely productive creative time.

List of works and references

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : "Friedrich Christian Bressand (1670? -1699)", in: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 2. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1990, pp. 795–815. ISBN 3-7772-9027-0

literature

  • Olga Artsibacheva: The reception of the Orpheus myth in German musical dramas of the 17th century . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2008.
  • Helmut Degen: Friedrich Christian Bressand. A contribution to the Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel theater history. Dissertation. University of Rostock 1934. Parts in: Yearbook of the Braunschweigischen Geschichtsverein. 1935, ZDB ID 502337-3 , pp. 73-136.
  • Heinz Degen:  Bressand, Friedrich Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 600 ( digitized version ).
  • Gustav Friedrich Schmidt: New contributions to the history of music and the theater at the Ducal Court of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. Volume F 1: Chronological index of the operas, ballets and plays (comedies) with music performed in Wolfenbüttel, Braunschweig, Salzthal, Bevern and Blankenburg with music up to the middle of the 18th century according to the existing textbooks, scores and other printed and handwritten source documents. Berntheisel, Munich 1929.
  • Sara Smart: Twice the joy of the muses. Court festivities in Brunswick (= Wolfenbütteler Arbeit zur Barockforschung 19). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-447-02971-4 .
  • Paul Zimmermann :  Bressand, Friedrich Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 226-228.

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personal data
SURNAME Bressand, Friedrich Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and opera librettist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1670
PLACE OF BIRTH Durlach
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1699
Place of death Wolfenbüttel