Thank God Wiedebein

Gottlob Wiedebein (1779–1854), contemporary oil painting

Gottlob Wiedebein (born July 21, 1779 in Eilenstedt , † April 17, 1854 in Braunschweig ) was a German conductor and composer .

Life

Wiedebein, who comes from a family of cantors , completed a music education with his uncle in Braunschweig, who was active as an organist at the Brothers Church there. He also studied music theory and composition with the composer Johann Gottfried Schwanberger . He succeeded his uncle, who died in 1804, as organist. On June 1, 1810, he came to Vienna for three months , where he met Ludwig van Beethoven , who had previously advised him not to move to Vienna.

In 1816 Wiedebein became director of the ducal court orchestra in Braunschweig and in the following year took over the musical direction of the " National Theater " founded by August Klingemann . During a stay in Venice and Rome in 1820, he studied Italian opera and oratorio music. The theater-loving young Duke Karl II appointed him court conductor in 1824 and commissioned him to recruit singers for the newly founded "Ducal Court Theater" in 1826. Wiedebein traveled to Dresden, Munich and Vienna. In 1820 he performed Rossini's Barber of Seville , on January 17, 1822, the Freischütz and in 1826 Fidelio for the first time in Braunschweig and introduced the public there to the works of Beethoven.

Wiedebein retired in 1832 for health reasons and died in Braunschweig in 1854. The Wiedebeinstrasse in the western ring area in Braunschweig was named after him.

Works (selection)

9 songs with accompaniment of the Piano-Forte (Braunschweig, 1826):

To Wina (text by Jean Paul )
To *** (Anonymous)
To Lina (Jean Paul)
Petrarca's fifth Sonnett (Winfried)
More and more ( Johann Peter Eckermann )
Gretchen's Lament ( Goethe )
Wonne der Wehmuth (Goethe) for two sopranos and piano (canon)
Treulieb ( Ludwig Tieck ) for two sopranos and alto without accompaniment
The forget-me-not ( Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl )

Homage overture for orchestra , 1823

literature

Rainer Boestfleisch: Wiedebein, thank God . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 651 .
Friedrich Gustav Jansen : Beethoven's and Schumann's correspondence with Cplm. G. Wiedebein . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 76, No. 26 of June 18, 1880, p. 279.

Individual evidence

↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 2: Lachner - Zmeskall. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 1096-1098.
↑ Ludwig van Beethoven to Gottlob Wiedebein, Baden near Vienna, July 6, 1804, in: Ludwig van Beethoven, Correspondence. Complete edition , Volume 1, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg , Munich 1996, pp. 211f.
↑ Jürgen Hodemacher : Braunschweigs streets - their names and their stories. Volume 3: Outside the city ring. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2002, ISBN 3-926701-48-X , p. 296.

personal data
SURNAME	Wiedebein, thank God
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Kapellmeister and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 21, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eilenstedt near Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH	April 17, 1854
Place of death	Braunschweig

[1] Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 2: Lachner - Zmeskall. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 1096-1098.

[2] Ludwig van Beethoven to Gottlob Wiedebein, Baden near Vienna, July 6, 1804, in: Ludwig van Beethoven, Correspondence. Complete edition , Volume 1, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg , Munich 1996, pp. 211f.

[3] Jürgen Hodemacher : Braunschweigs streets - their names and their stories. Volume 3: Outside the city ring. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2002, ISBN 3-926701-48-X , p. 296.