Thank God Benedict Bierey

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Gottlieb Benedict Bierey

Gottlob Benedict Bierey (born July 25, 1772 in Dresden ; † May 5, 1840 in Breslau , Silesia ) was a German composer, conductor and theater tenant.

Life

In Dresden Bierey was a student of Christian Ehregott Weinlig , in 1788 he became music director at the Döbbelin Society and from 1794 to 1806 with Joseph Seconda in Dresden and Leipzig . In 1807 he made a guest appearance in Vienna and worked from December 1807 to 1828 as Kapellmeister at the Breslau Theater , where he succeeded Carl Maria von Weber and his successor Müller. From 1824 to 1828, Bierey also leased the local theater, but came into constant conflict with Karl Schall , who opposed him in his Neue Breslauer Zeitung and vigorously opposed his supposedly inartistic and only money-making leadership. In Dresden he was a member of the Masonic lodge Zum golden Apfel .

At the time of Bierey, the baritone Johann Theodor Mosewius (1788–1858) and the comedians Heinrich Schmelka , Ludwig Wohlbrück and Fritz Beckmann also worked in Breslau . From 1829 Bierey privatized in Wiesbaden, Mainz, Leipzig and Weimar for health reasons.

With a few exceptions, his compositions belong to the field of music theater and consist, in addition to songs, a symphony (1801), a number of cantatas, choirs and chants for plays, preludes and 26 operas and operettas, the majority of which were in his time enjoyed general popularity.

He wrote his opera Vladimir, Prince of Novgorod (1806), which resulted in his appointment to Breslau, for the Theater an der Wien . A continuation of Ferdinand Kauer's Donauweibchen (third part) in 1801 , the music to Zacharias Werner's play The Consecration of Power in 1811 and Almazinde or the Sesam Cave in 1814 were particularly lucky . Many of his operas suffered from weak texts and therefore did not last long, even if the music, which was sometimes accused of being too closely related to Luigi Cherubini , was praised and gladly heard.

Bierey's wife Sophie b. Moreau and his daughter Wilhelmine worked temporarily as singers.

His nickname as a foreign member of the Vienna artist society Ludlamshöhle is "Rossini von Novgorod".

Works (selection)

  • The Apple Thief (Wilhelm Christian Häser), comic opera 2 acts (1793 Leipzig)
  • Love adventure or He who laughs last, laughs best ( Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann ), comic opera 1 act (1794 Dresden)
  • The Girls' Market ( Karl Alexander Herklots ), comic opera 1 act (1794 Leipzig)
  • Jery ​​and Bätely ( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ), comic opera (1795 Leipzig)
  • The sleeping potion ( Christoph Friedrich Bretzner ), opera 2 acts (1795 Ballenstedt )
  • L'asilo d'Amore ( Pietro Metastasio ), Cantata (1797)
  • The magic grove (1799)
  • The Donauweibchen or The Mermaid Queen . Third and last part. A romantic-comic folk tale with singing in 3 acts by Karl Friedrich Hensler in Kauerscher manner composed by Bierey (Dresden 1801)
  • The flower girl or better the rose queen ( Johann Friedrich Rochlitz ), comic opera 1 act (1802 Leipzig)
  • Clara, Duchess of Bretzner, Opera 3 acts (1803 Leipzig)
  • Rosette, the Swiss Shepherd Girl (Bretzner), Singspiel 2 acts (1806 Leipzig)
  • Vladimir, Prince of Novgorod ( Matthäus Stegmayer ), Opera 3 acts (1807 Vienna, Theater an der Wien); 1828 Prague into Czech transl. by SK Machacek
  • The attack (Bretzner), comic opera 1 act (1808 Vienna)
  • Elias Rips Raps ( Friedrich Wilhelm Häser ), Intermezzo 1 act (1810 Breslau)
  • The Slippers (Matthäus Stegmayer), opera in two acts (1811 Vienna, Theater an der Wien)
  • The Chamois Hunters ( Samuel Gottlieb Bürde ), Opera 2 acts (1811 Breslau)
  • Almazinde or Die Höhle Sesam (Heinrich Schmidt), comic opera 3 acts (1813 Vienna)
  • Pyramus and Thisbe , Opera (1814 Breslau)

literature

  • Arrey von Dommer:  Bierey, Thank God Benedict . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 628 f.
  • Nekrolog in AMZ (Leipzig), 42 (1840), column 506.
  • Anonymous (Sophie Bierey?): Memorandum in memory of Bierey and his administration of the Breslau theater at the opening of the new theater in Breslau in October 1841. With Bierey's portrait. Printed as a manuscript for all his friends and admirers who were still alive . Wroclaw 1841
  • Till Gerrit Waidelich: “Torupson” and Franz von Schober - the life and work of the Schubert and Schwind friend, courted by women, friends and biographers. In: Schubert: Perspectives. Volume 6, 2006, Issue 1 and 2 - special issue, pp. 1–237, ISSN  1617-6340 . (on Bierey's theater management 1824–28 see pp. 59–143); In addition table of contents and register of persons, in: Schubert: Perspektiven. Volume 7, 2007, pp. 107-120.
  • Hubert Unverricht : The pamphlets of the Breslau opera bandmaster and theater director Gottlob Benedict Bierey (1772-1840) . In: Hubert Unverricht / Piotr Tarliński: De musica in Silesia. Zbiór artykułów (= Z Dziejów Kultury Chrześcijańskiej na Śląsku 45), - Opole 2007, pp. 653–661.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuscripts and performances (1770–1830) by Rosette, the Swiss shepherd girl in the DFG opera project .
  2. ↑ (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg:  Overview of the pieces performed in July. July 8th. (...) At the Vienna. In:  Theater-Zeitung , No. 6/1811, August 21, 1811, p. 22 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / thz.
personal data
SURNAME Bierey, thank God Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera composer, conductor and theater tenant
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1840
Place of death Wroclaw