Georg Feldmayr

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Johann Georg Feldmayr , also Feldmayer, Feldmair, (born December 17, 1756 in Pfaffenhoffen , † May 1, 1834 in Hamburg ) was a German musician and composer.

Life

Georg Feldmayr was the son of the linen weaver Johann Feldmayr († August / September 1756), his stepbrother from a later marriage of his mother Maria Catharina Schredinger (1731 / 32-1819) was Franz Xaver Lettner (1760-1839). As a child he was accepted as a choirboy in the Augustinian Canons of Indersdorf . He then attended the Jesuit grammar school in Munich (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ) until 1774 . His further education is unknown, he became a musician. At the beginning of 1780 he became a member of the violinist and later as the successor to his brother-in-law Antonio Rosetti Kapellmeister of the court orchestra of Prince Kraft Ernst zu Oettingen-Wallerstein (1748–1802). He suffered from great financial problems and left Wallerstein at the end of August 1797, but was fetched back. At the end of 1799 he left Wallerstein for good. In the autumn of 1800 he tried in vain to get employment with the Duchess Luise von Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756-1808) as a musician at her court in Ludwigslust . From 1802 until his death he lived as a musician in Hamburg, where he a. a. between 1811 and 1819 as a violinist at the Deutsches Theater there.

literature

  • Günther Grünsteudel: "The soulful Capell Meister Rosetti was my brother-in-law". Georg Feldmayr - new contributions to biography . In: Rosetti-Forum 5, 2004, pp. 37-53 ( digitized version ).
  • Günther Grünsteudel:  Feldmayr, Georg. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, supplement for both parts. Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1139-9  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 144.
  2. ^ Message from the Prince. Wallerstein court chapel. In:  Musikalische Real-Zeitung / Musikalische Korrespondenz der Teutschen Filharmonische Gesellschaft , August 13, 1788, p. 52 ff. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / muz
personal data
SURNAME Feldmayr, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feldmayr, Johann Georg (full name); Feldmayer, Georg; Feldmair, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfaffenhofen on the Ilm
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1834
Place of death Hamburg