Friedrich Wilhelm Haack (composer)

Friedrich Wilhelm Haack (born April 25, 1765 in Potsdam , † November 14, 1825 in Stettin ) was a German composer , organist of the united Schloss- und Mariengemeinde in Stettin and music director.

Life

His parents were Christian Fridrich Hacke (* 1721 in Berlin ) and Anna Mariane Eleonora Junge.

Like his older brother Karl Friedrich Heinrich Haack , Friedrich Wilhelm Haack was a pupil of Franz Benda . The Crown Prince and later King Friedrich Wilhelm II encouraged both of them by accepting them into his chapel at a young age. After a short orchestral activity, Haack switched to the organ in Stargard in 1779 and in 1790 became organist and cantor of the unified castle and Mariengemeinde in Stettin, so that he was responsible for the church music of the castle church in Stettin . The Marienkirche burnt down in 1789 and was not rebuilt.

Haack had six children with his wife Johanna Wilhelmine Kirstein (* 1770, † 1808 in Stettin). One daughter married Ferdinand Oelschläger (* 1798, † 1858), who was his successor as organist of the castle church.

Services

As director of the lovers' concerts of the Stettiner Musikgesellschaft in 1793, Haack continued the public concert life that had begun in 1767 and, as music director, conducted nine to ten concerts each year, including Haydn's The Creation and The Seasons and Mozart's La clemenza di Tito . The Stettiner Liedertafel is a side piece to the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin founded two years earlier by Johann Friedrich Fasch . The Berliner Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung wrote that Haack, as music director, had campaigned for the promotion of singing, the Stettiner Liedertafel, and therefore founded a music society with 15 to 20 people.

Haack set the three-act singspiel Die Geisterinsel by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter and Friedrich Hildebrand von Einsiedel to music in 1798 (first performance in 1799 in Stettin) (as the third of five settings of this libretto between 1796 and 1799). "The richness, the abundance and elaboration of the harmony, especially in solemn and sublime movements, should characterize this composition very much."

The music historian Carl Friedrich Ledebur (1861) writes: “Born in Potsdam in 1760, because of his great musical talent, he was given the position of violinist in the Prince of Prussia's chapel as a boy, but since he was more inclined to play the piano and the organ, as well as to composition the latter he studied under Fasch, he took the position of organist at Stargard in Pomerania in 1779, and later that of music director and organist at the castle church in Stettin. Here his lively spirit and his love of art found sufficient occupation; from 1793 he was director of the lovers' concert there and gave it a more noble artistic direction; This position also gave him the opportunity to compose several larger works; among which an oratorio, several symphonies, the opera: 'Die Geisterinsel' by Gotter 1798 (based on Shakespeare's Sturm) should be mentioned. "

Works

The following are preserved:

• Concerto for piano and orchestra opus 1
• Sonata in C major opus 2
• three string quartets in E opus 2
• Rondos opus 3
• Capriccios for piano

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friderich Wilhelm Haacke. Baptismal register Infantry Regiment No. 6, 1765 / 25.4. GStA PK, VII HA, MKB MF 1200.
2. ^ Johann Christian Haacke, baptismal register St. Nicolai Berlin August 6 (8?) 1721,
3. ↑ Marriage on July 31, 1754. Baptismal register Infantry Regiment No. 6, 1754/21, GStA PK, VII HA, MKB MF 1200 (No. 21).
4. ^ Werner Schwarz: Pomeranian Music History , Cologne 1994
5. ^ Paul Meinhold: History of the Castle and Mariengemeinde. Szczecin 1926.
6. ↑ Werner Schwarz: Friedrich Wilhelm Haack , 1994, pp. 108–111.
7. ↑ E. Eugene Helm. In: Communications from the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart WLBforum_2012_1.
8. ^ Report on the state of music in Stettin , Volume 1, January 1799, pp. 80–81.
9. ↑ In the AMZ (1841, 43rd year, p. 985) there is a reference to this Szczecin song table, including compositions by Haak.
10. ^ Libretto Portal - Volume .
11. ↑ Thomas Radecke: Shakespeare's Storm as an opera libretto. In: Helen Gayer, Thomas Radecke: Departures - Escape routes. Music in Weimar around 1800 . Böhlau; Cologne 2003, p. 215.
12. ^ Thomas Baumann: North German Opera in the Age of Goethe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1985, pp. 314-315, p. 386.
13. ↑ In: Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung . Volume 2, 1799-1800, p. 135.
14. ↑ Some music dictionaries as well as RISM give wrong years of birth.
15. ^ Répertoire International des Sources Musicales RISM. The assignment of individual works to Karl or Friedrich Wilhelm Haack, both pupils of Franz Benda , is not reliably represented in all music dictionaries.

literature

• Horst Becker: Friedrich Wilhelm Haack in Music in Past and Present , 1956 Sp. 1159 f.
• Werner Freytag: Music history of the city of Stettin in the 18th century . Greifswald, Bamberg 1936, p. 11 ff, p. 112.
• Ernst Ludwig Gerber: New historical-biographical lexicon of the Tonkünstler (1812-1814). (edited by Othmar Wessely). Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1966, p. 453.
• Carl von Ledebur: Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present . Rauh, Berlin 1861, p. 218 f ., urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10931847-2 ( full text in the Google book search).
• Werner Schwarz: Friedrich Wilhelm Haack (1760-1827). Pomeranian music history. Volume 2, life pictures of musicians in and from Pomerania. Research on Pomeranian History , Series V, Volume 28. Böhlau, Cologne 1994. ISBN 3-412-04382-6 , pp. 108–111.
• Szczecin song board. Chants for four male voices , composed by JG Kugler, set to music by Haak, Löwe and Oelschläger. Score and parts. Trautwein: Berlin 1811.
• Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 213-214.