Friedrich Christian Feustking

Friedrich Christian Feustking , also Fr (i) edericus Christianus Feustkingius, (* around 1678 in Wrist-Stellau ; † February 3, 1739 in Tolk near Schleswig ) was a teacher, poet and librettist of operas and singspiels and a pastor in Tolk . He became known as the librettist of the first operas that Georg Friedrich Handel composed in Hamburg.

Life

He was the son of pastor Heinrich Feustking (around 1636-1682) at the Feldsteinkirche in Wrist-Stellau , assessor of the Royal Danish Consistory, and his wife Dorothea von Molsdorf (around 1640-1691). His older brother was the professor of theology in Wittenberg and court preacher in Gotha Johann Heinrich Feustking (1672-1713).

Friedrich Christian Feustking studied theology at the University of Wittenberg and went to Hamburg as a private teacher in 1702 .

At the beginning of 1705 Feustking moved into a parish in Tolk near Schleswig . Feustking went to Italy in the summer of 1706.

Feustking was not without controversy among his contemporaries. Allegedly his departure from Wittenberg was triggered by a dispute and his trip to Italy is said to have been caused by a solid correspondence with his colleagues Barthold Feind (1678–1721) and Christian Friedrich Hunold (1681–1721) that lasted several weeks whose spiciness Feustking is said to have made persona non grata . In the libretto for Handel's Almira ( HWV 1), Feind spoke of “Goût der Hamburger parterre”.

Feustking also wrote under the pseudonym Felindo.

Works

• Curieuser history calendar or short time register about life & c. The world-famous and incomparable theology and philosophy of Philippi Melanchthonis, to explain the church history of the previous Seculi, compiled by FCF, printed by Heinrich Johann Meyer's heirs and Gottfried Zimmermann, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1698
• Dissertation: Godofredum Anictophciac in Re Sacra convictum. Presidium Prof. Dr. Theol. Philipp Ludwig Hanneken , printed by Christian Gerdes (ius), Wittenberg 1699
• The opened antiques room, in which Kurtze is given instructions on how to use inscriptiones, statues and other relics of antiquity to understand and look at them. Hamburg, 1702
• Libretto for the opera Die dejuge Staats-Liebe / Or The Unfortunate Cleopatra Queen of Egypt presented in a singing game on the Hamburgischer Schau-Platz. Mattheson, Johann; Feustking, Friedrich Christian [text book], Hamburg, 1704. Drama in three acts by Johann Mattheson , first performance: October 20, 1704 in the Hamburg Theater am Gänsemarkt
• Libretto for the opera Der Glückswechsel in Krohnen / Or: Almira, Queen of Castile . Presented in a Singspiel on the great Hamburg scene In 1704 ... Handel, Georg Friedrich; Feustking, Friedrich Christian. [Text book], printed by Friedrich Conrad Greflinger, Hamburg, 1704. First performance on January 8, 1705 under Reinhard Keizer in the Hamburg Theater am Gänsemarkt. The performance was repeated 20 times over the next few weeks, which also spoke for a very successful performance by Hamburg standards.
• Libretto for the opera Nero or Love Obtained through Blood and Murder, presented in a singing game / on the Hamburgischer Schau-Platz, Handel, Georg Friedrich; Feustking, Friedrich Christian. [Textbook], Hamburg, 1705. First performance on February 25, 1705. The opera is lost today and, unlike Almira, was completely unsuccessful.
• The opened antique room. Hamburg, 1704
• Holstilius, which was blocked off because of the Almira, controversy, 8 p., Hamburg, 1705.
• The Serene Secretarius, or: Almira, Queen of Castile. Performed in a singing game on the large Hamburg show square and put into the music by Reinhard Keisern, Hochfürstl. Mecklenburgis. Capell-Meistern / In the year 1706. Keizer, Reinhard; Feustking, Friedrich Christian; Enemy, Barthold. [Text book], [Hamburg], 1706
• The opened antique room, in which Kurtze was given instructions on how to understand and look at inscriptiones, statues and other relics of antiquity with usefulness, which instructs other gallant sciences to continue ... which is added The history of today's religion and general legal history, 2. extended edition, 186 S, printed by Schiller, Hamburg, 1711.
• For the most commendable memory of the Weyland Hoch-Wohlgebornen Frauen Dorothea Magdalenen Wolffen bored millers / Des ... Mr. Zachariä Wolff / ... Chief Commander of the Veste Tönning en Blessedly deceased wife ... designed by Felindo, 23 pages, printed by Johann Holwein , Schleswig, 1713. VD18 12776807.
• Libretto for the opera Der Glücks-Wechsel obtained in Cronen, or Almira, Queen of Castile. Presented in a singing game on the Hamburgischer Schau-Platz. Handel, Georg Friedrich, Telemann, Georg Philipp; Feustking, Friedrich Christian [text book], [Hamburg], 1732

literature

• Friedrich Christian Feustking. In: Frederik Arends: Gejstligheden i Sleswig og Holsten fra Reformationen til 1864, 3 volumes. Copenhagen, 1932.
• Friedrich Chrysander : GF Handel, 3 vol., Printed and published by Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig, 1858, 1st volume, pp. 102, 105, -113, 120, 125-127, 130-131, 138
• Bernhard Möller: Thüringer Pfarrerbuch (Vol. 26 of the series of publications of the Stoye Foundation of the Working Group for Central German Family Research), Vol. 1: Herzogtum Gotha, 784 S., Verlag Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch, 1995, p. 282

swell

• Finke, Günter: The status of Wedderkop research. In: Familienkundliches Jahrbuch 1964. Schleswig-Holsteinische Familienforschung eV, p. 60
• Entry of Friedrich Christian Feustking's matriculation in the Wittenberg matriculation portal
• Marriage of the pastors in Husum. In: Familienkundliches Jahrbuch Schleswig-Holstein 1980, Schleswig-Holsteinische Familienforschung eV, p. 50, 1706 No. 12

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Friedrich Chrysander: GF Handel. Volume 1. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1858 on zeno.org
2. ↑ Booklet accompanying the recording of the opera Almira by Georg Friedrich Händel with the Fiori musicali under Andrew Lawrence-King , 1996, label CPO