Friedrich Dotzauer

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Friedrich Dotzauer, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber

Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer (born January 20, 1783 in Häselrieth near Hildburghausen , † March 6, 1860 in Dresden ) was a German cellist and composer .

Life

Dotzauer was the son of the pastor Justus Johann Georg Dotzauer (1737-1818) and his wife Elisabetha Margaretha Großmann (1755-1845) and grandson of the organ builder Johann Christian Dotzauer . He learned several instruments including the piano , violin , double bass , horn and clarinet . Friedrich Dotzauer received music theory lessons from the local church organist named Ruttinger, a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach . Dotzauer made his first exercises on the violoncello under the guidance of the court trumpeter.

In order to deepen his training on the cello, Dotzauer took lessons in Meiningen from 1799 to 1801 with Johann Jacob Kriegk (1750–1814), a student of Jean-Louis Duport . He then took a job in the Meiningen Chapel. In 1805 Dotzauer moved to the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , in which he played the cello until 1811; he was one of the first members of the Gewandhaus Quartet founded in 1808 . In 1806 Friedrich Dotzauer visited Berlin, where he met Bernhard Romberg and with him deepened his studies on the cello.

In 1811 Dotzauer received a prestigious position at the Dresden Court Orchestra , where he stayed until his retirement in 1850. In addition to his annual earnings of around 500 Reichstalers, he earned around 200 Taler annually by publishing compositions to support his family of four. From 1821 he also held the post of first solo cellist in the orchestra. On his travels Dotzauer gave concerts in many important places in Germany and the Netherlands . On December 7, 1811, Friedrich Dotzauer's second son Carl Ludwig was born in Dresden , who also learned to play the cello under the guidance of his father and was given a position at the Kassel court orchestra . Other important students of Friedrich Dotzauer were Friedrich August Kummer , Karl Schuberth , Karl Drechsler and Carl Ludwig Voigt .

As principal cellist of the court orchestra in Dresden, Friedrich Dotzauer rose to become a respected musician of his time and went on concert tours through Germany and the Netherlands . While most of his numerous compositions have been forgotten, Dotzauer's didactic pieces and études are still of great importance for cello lessons.

After ten years of retirement, Friedrich Dotzauer died at the age of 77 on March 6, 1860 in Dresden.

Works

In addition to playing the violoncello, Friedrich Dotzauer was considered a well-trained composer. He wrote many works of various genres , including an opera , overtures , symphonies , a mass, and several pieces of chamber music . While these works have largely been forgotten, his compositions for violoncello have maintained their popularity. These works consist of nine concerts, three concertinos , two sonatas with double bass accompaniment, variations, divertissements , potpourris and a large number of duets . Some of these works are still used for cello lessons.

Dotzauer's textbooks are still particularly important for training on the cello. These include two cello schools, the first with Schott in Mainz and the second with Haslinger in Vienna for initial lessons. Dotzauer's textbook also includes various etudes, including the 18 exercices ďune difficulté progressive pour le Violoncelle seul op. 120 for beginners and the 24 daily studies to achieve virtuosity op. 155b . The latter are often cited as the best didactic pieces by Dotzauer. In addition, Friedrich Dotzauer published the Schule des Flageolettton op.147 .

literature

Documents
Letters from Friedrich Dotzauer are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters in the Leipzig State Archives .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Beer: Music between composer, publisher and audience. Schneider, Tutzing 2000, ISBN 3-7952-1027-5 , pp. 244–245 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Dotzauer, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dotzauer, Justus Johann Friedrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Häselrieth near Hildburghausen
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1860
Place of death Dresden