Georg Philipp Kress

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Georg Philipp Kress (also Kreß) (born November 10, 1719 in Darmstadt , † February 2, 1779 in Göttingen ) was a German composer and violinist .

Life

Kress was the son of the Darmstadt composer and conductor Johann Jakob Kress and his wife Anna Maria née Böhler. Both married in Darmstadt in 1718. He was baptized in Darmstadt on November 10, 1719 in the presence of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann , who traveled from Frankfurt aM especially for this purpose . Due to the early death of his father in 1728, Telemann probably took over his further education and training, because Kress can be traced back to 1732 in one of the quarters of the Johanneum in Hamburg , where Telemann was also active as a cantor from 1721.

From 1744 he is listed as a member of the Hochfürstliche Mecklenburgische Hofkapelle in Schwerin , which he now became concertmaster and moved to Göttingen, where he played under the local cantor Johann Friedrich Schweinitz (1708–1780) as concertmaster in the university's Collegium musicum .

On February 21, 1748 he took up a position as concertmaster with Duke Friedrich Carl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön in Plön , which he left again on July 1, 1751. On April 15, 1752, Kress gave a concert in Lübeck , which made a great impression when a highly praised farewell poem To Herr Concertmeister Kress appeared in the Lübecker Anzeiger on the same day .

On May 21, 1755 he again took up a position as concertmaster (premier violinist) in Schwerin. In 1766 he took a leave of absence from his employer in order to give concerts and music lessons in Göttingen to the members of the college, both professors and the mostly aristocratic violin students. He owed it to the intercession of Johann Stephan Pütter that he was appointed academic concertmaster in Göttingen on November 23, 1766 and was consequently dismissed from Schwerin on June 24, 1767. Since May 14, 1768 he was a member of the University of Göttingen . He received a pension of 100 Reichstalers, which was increased to 120 in 1769. One of his last memos is a certificate dated September 25, 1775 issued for him by the Göttingen Vice Rector Christian Friedrich Georg Meister (1718–1782).

plant

All of the composer's works are only preserved in manuscripts, partly in scores, partly in part books; they are stored in the archives and libraries in Schwerin and Rostock.

  • Sinfonia in A major for two orchestras
  • Overture in D major
  • 11 sonatas a 4, 2 Vl, Va, Bc
  • 6 Sonata a 4, 2 Vl, Va, Bc
  • 6 sonatas for flute and bc
  • 4 sonatas for flute and bc
  • Trio à Flauto traversieur, Viola d'amore col Basso Continuo
  • Trio à Flauto traverso, viola di gamba e harpsichord

Recordings

  • Telemann: The Virtuoso Godfather. Charivari Agréable, signum classics, DDD, 2006.

literature

  • Günter Hart: Georg Philipp Kreß (1719–1779). In: The music research. 22nd year, issue 3, 1969, pp. 328–334.
  • Axel Fischer: The science of art: Johann Nikolaus Forkel as academic music director in Göttingen. Dissertation. V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8471-0370-7 , p. 67ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Pippa Drummond:  Kress, Georg Philipp. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
personal data
SURNAME Kress, Georg Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1779
Place of death Goettingen