Friedrich Ferdinand Flemming

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The "Flemming", the goblet of the Zelterschen Liedertafel, design drawing by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, approx. 1813

Friedrich Ferdinand Flemming (born February 28, 1778 in Neuhausen / Erzgeb. , † May 27, 1813 in Berlin ) was a German ophthalmologist , composer and singer.

Life

Friedrich Ferdinand Flemming studied medicine . From 1803 to 1813 he worked as a practical ophthalmologist in Berlin and private lecturer at Berlin University . He was a member of the Medicinisch-Surgical Society, founded in 1810, which was renamed the Hufelandische Gesellschaft in 1813 . He also had a passion for music and received training as a singer from Carl Friedrich Zelter . He joined the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin , was a founding member of the Zelterschen Liedertafel and was in correspondence with Carl Maria von Weber . He made a name for himself in particular as a composer of table chants for the Liedertafel. He died in Berlin of the consequences of an infectious disease that he contracted while working as a doctor.

Because of his services to the Liedertafel, a bronze trophy was donated for the Liedertafel at Carl Friedrich Zelter's instigation after Flemming's death and named after Flemming. Panel member Karl Friedrich Schinkel contributed the draft drawing for the cup . The trophy was used exclusively for special occasions in the Liedertafel ( loss of war ).

Works (selection)

  • God's peace / funeral song for mixed choir a cappella lives above the stars
  • Unity and love / funeral song, for female choir
  • Only in the holy, solemn silence / funeral song, song for male choir
  • Eintracht und Liebe, for four-part mixed choral setting
  • Here in the evening, comfortably serious silence, song
  • Thanksgiving song, chant
  • Oh my Lord Jesus, if I didn't have you
  • Horatian “Integer vitae”, four-part movement for male choir a cappella
  • Dulce cum sodalibus
  • numerous table songs, u. a.
    • Richard, my king, song
    • The musician's heavy tongue of wine, song table song
    • Katz is not at home, Liedertafellied

literature

  • Hennig, Richard: From the Berlin years of Friedrich Ferdinand Flemming (1778–1813), the composer of the Integer vitae . In: Zs. D. Ver. fd Gesch. Blns. Vol. 59, 1942, pp. 125-126.
  • Draheim, Joachim: settings of ancient texts from the baroque to the present (with e. Bibliography d. Settings for the period from 1700 to 1978). Grüner, Amsterdam 1981, ISBN 90-6032-183-9 .

Web links

Sheet music and audio files by Friedrich Ferdinand Flemming in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Draheim: Settings ... Page 57
personal data
SURNAME Flemming, Friedrich Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist, composer and singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhausen / Erzgeb.
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1813
Place of death Berlin