Johann Gottfried Rode

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Johann Gottfried Rode (born February 25, 1797 in Kirchscheidungen , † January 8, 1857 in Potsdam ) was a German horn player , orchestra conductor and composer .

Life

Rode was born in Kirchscheidungen near Freyburg in 1797 . He was instructed in instrumental music by the Eisenberg music director Schnorr, in composition theory Rode was a pupil of Zeller. In 1817 the General of the Infantry von Neumann called him to Berlin as a principal - French horn player of the Guard Jäger Battalion . From 1827 until his death Rode was the royal music director and conductor of the orchestra of this battalion and trained several important French horn players during this time. He taught Prince Carl of Prussia how to blow the hunting horn . Rode was married and had at least three children.

Rode was regarded as a "representative and promoter of Prussian hunter music" and composed or arranged a total of 2935 pieces of music. He created a total of 60 hunting signals and fanfares that were blown during par force hunts . In honor of Carl von Prussia, he also orchestrated these 60 fanfares as pieces of music. In his capacity as orchestra leader in the Guard Jäger Battalion, he reformed the composition of this orchestra by introducing Blühmel's valve technique and little chromatic trumpets and French horns in 1828 . From 1831 he used the bombardon as a bass instrument. By further developing the composition of the orchestra, he tried to preserve the independence of hunter music and to differentiate it from other forms of military music of the time .

He was mistakenly ascribed the composition of the march Ein Jäger from Electoral Palatinate .

literature

  • Wolfgang Suppan, Armin Suppan : The New Lexicon of Brass Music . 4th edition. Blasmusikverlag Schulz GmbH, Freiburg-Tiengen 1994, ISBN 3-923058-07-1 .
  • Georg Kandler: On the history of old hunter music . In: Deutsche Militär-Musik-Zeitung LVIII, 1936, No. 21. pp. 2-4.
  • Carl von Ledebur: Tonkünstler-Lexikon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present . Ludwig Rauh, Berlin 1861, p. 471 ( digitized in the Google book search).

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Theodor Rode: On the history of the horn or French horn . In: Gustav Bock (Ed.): Neue Berliner Musikzeitung . 14th year. Bote & Bock , Berlin 1860, p. 249, 251 .
  2. ^ Theodor Rode: On the history of Prussian infantry and hunter music . In: New magazine for music . tape 48 . January to June 1858. CF Kahnt Musikverlag , Leipzig 1858, p. 173, 174 .
personal data
SURNAME Rode, Johann Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Church divorces
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1857
Place of death Potsdam