Gottfried Taubert

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Gottfried Taubert (baptized July 30, 1670 in Ronneburg (Thuringia) ; † July 6, 1746 in Zerbst ) was a German dance master of the Baroque period .

Life

Taubert was born as the son of the Ronneburg clothing maker Christoph Tauber [t] and Anna Brämmer. From 1686 he attended lectures at the University of Leipzig and from 1693 to 1695 he studied in the trade fair city. In 1702 he settled in Danzig , but returned to Leipzig in 1715 , where he published his extensive dance book Rechtschaffener Tanzmeister in 1717 . It also contains the first German translation of the French choreography by Raoul-Auger Feuillet and the instructions for the dances by Raoul-Auger Feuillet and Louis Pécour . From around 1730 until his death he was court dance master in Zerbst.

Taubert is likely to have had the most lasting influence among German dance book authors. Ultimately, it is the most comprehensive testimony to the German reception of baroque French dance. In 2012, Tilden Russell brought an English translation of this work and provided it with an introductory volume based on extensive preliminary studies. At the beginning of the 18th century Leipzig was practically a “stronghold of the academic art of dance”, as Walter Salmen called it. Taubert played a big part in making it happen.

Works

The Righteous Tantz Master
  • Gottfried Taubert: Kurtzer Entwurff Des noble as natural as artificial Tantz exercises . Danzig 1706, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11076454-6 .
  • Gottfried Taubert: Righteous Tantz master, or thorough explanation of the French Tantz art . 3 volumes. Friedrich Lanckischens Erben, Leipzig 1717 ( digitized volumes 1 and 2 in the Google book search).

literature

  • Giles Bennett:  Taubert, Gottfried. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 802 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Giles Bennett:  Taubert, Gottfried. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 16 (Strata - Villoteau). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Angelika Renate Gerbes: Gottfried Taubert on social and theatrical dance of the early eighteenth century . Diss. Ann Arbor 1972.
  • Angelika Renate Gerbes: Eighteenth Century Dance Instruction: The Course of Study Advocated by Gottfried Taubert . In: Dance Research: The Journal of Society of Dance Research, Vol. 10, No. 1 (April 1992), pp. 40-52, JSTOR 1290697 .
  • Michael Maul : Baroque opera in Leipzig (1693-1720): text volume (= Rombach Wissenschaft series Voces. Vol. 12/1). Rombach, Freiburg / Berlin / Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7930-9584-2 .
  • Konstanze Musketa: "that a righteous dancer must be a good musician": Comments on the work of dancer Gottfried Taubert (1670–1746). In: Zerbst at the time of Fasch - a court of muses in Anhalt. Report on the international scientific conference on April 17th and 18th, 2015 as part of the 13th International Fasch Festival in Zerbst / Anhalt. Ortus, Beeskow 2015, ISBN 978-3-937788-47-0 , pp. 127-144.
  • Walter Salmen : The dance master. History and profile of an occupation from the 14th to the 19th century. With the appendix “The dance master in literature” . Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1997, ISBN 3-487-10440-7 .
  • Stephanie Schroedter: From “Affect to Action”: Source studies on the poetics of dance art from the late Ballet de Cour to the early Ballet en Action . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2538-5 , p. 75 f.
  • Mario Todte: Fencing, riding and dance master at the University of Leipzig (= studies on culture and history. Vol. 1). Via Regia, Bernstadt ad Eigen 2016, ISBN 978-3-944104-12-6 .
  • Hanna Walsdorf, Marie-Thérèse Mourey, Tilden Russell (eds.): Taubert's "Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister" (Leipzig 1717): Contexts - Readings - Practices (= Cadences - writings on dance and music history. Volume 2). Frank & Timme, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7329-0428-0 .

Web links

Commons : Gottfried Taubert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konstanze Musketa: “that a righteous dancer must be a good musician” ： Comments on the work of the dancer Gottfried Taubert (1670–1746). In: Zerbst at the time of Fasch - a court of muses in Anhalt. ortus, Beeskow 2015, ISBN 978-3-937788-47-0 , pp. 127–144, here p. 138.
  2. ↑ Hanna Walsdorf: New sources for the biography of Gottfried Taubert. In: Hanna Walsdorf, Marie-Thérèse Mourey, Tilden Russell (eds.): Taubert's "Righteous Tantzmeister" (Leipzig 1717): Contexts - Lectures - Practices . Frank & Timme, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7329-0428-0 , pp. 127–172, here: p. 129 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ In the Ronneburg baptismal register he is listed as a deaf.
  4. ↑ There is evidence of both a matriculation from 1686 and one from 1693. Georg Erler (Ed.): Die Jüngere Matrikel der Universität Leipzig 1559–1809. Vol. 2. The matriculations from the winter semester 1634 to the summer semester 1709. Leipzig 1909, p. 451, quotation: “Tauber (cf. Teuber) Godfr. Ronneburg Misn. dp. 16 gr. IW 1686 M 43, IS 1693 M 197. “The fact that the field of study was not specified here was nothing unusual at that time.
  5. ^ Stephanie Schroedter: From "Affect to Action": Source studies on the poetics of dance art from the late Ballet de Cour to the early Ballet en Action. Würzburg 2004, p. 75 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ Tilden Russell (Ed.): The Compleat Dancing Master: A Translation of Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister (1717). Volume 1: Introduction, Volume 2: Translation. Frankfurt am Main 2012.
  7. ^ Tilden Russell: The Minuet according to Taubert. In: Dance Research: The Journal of Society of Dance Research. Vol. 24, No 2 (Winter, 2006), pp. 138-162.
  8. ^ Tilden Russel, Dominique Bourassa: The Menuet de la Cour (= Terpsichore. Dance history studies for the German Dance Archive Cologne. Vol. 4). Hildesheim 1997.
  9. ↑ Salmen 1997, p. 75.
  10. ↑ Todte 2016, pp. 123-136.
personal data
SURNAME Taubert, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dance master of the baroque period
DATE OF BIRTH baptized July 30, 1670
PLACE OF BIRTH Ronneburg (Thuringia)
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1746
Place of death Zerbst