Heinrich Christian Schnoor

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Heinrich Christian Schnoor (* around 1766 in Lübeck , † after 1828 in Breslau ) was a wandering German songwriter of the Romantic era .

Life

Heinrich Christian Schnoor's life data are not secured. The Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie puts his date of birth at 1760, his known matriculation dates as stud. jur. at German universities suggest that he was born around 1766. He was a son of the administrator in Rethwisch (Stormarn) , Chamber Councilor Jakob Johann Schnoor. As early as 1790, during his studies at the Friedrichs University in Halle , he is said to have been an "old student" . Given his first enrollment at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel on October 28, 1782, this is a completely understandable statement. After starting his studies in Kiel, he is said to have attended the Georg August University of Göttingen and the University of Jena before he came to Halle. After his time in Erlangen, which followed Halle , he enrolled at the University of Leipzig on May 9, 1793 . He was the man in the tradition of medieval vagrants and worked as a singer with his guitar and clavichord whether the ability of the Impromptu to rhyme a popular entertainer and shareholder in circles of students and Masonic friends.

He probably finished his studies without obtaining a degree and was initially secretary to a prince of Saxe-Coburg for a few months . From 1796 he lived in Hamburg and later in neighboring Altona . On December 20, 1802 he married, at that time Secretair , in Lübeck-Genin Johanna Caroline Schmidt, the daughter of a Prussian calculator from Prignitz . He then got a job with a merchant in Greetsiel, East Frisia . From Greetsiel, you lose your trail as a hiker. All that is known is that the Hamburg police were looking for the missing Schnoor in order to be able to deliver a document from Rostock to him. In October 1828 he returned to Hamburg as an impoverished wandering poet from France and asked former fellow students from his time in Halle for the necessary funds to be able to continue his hike to Breslau, where he wanted to take a position as a language teacher. Eduard Maria Oettinger reports in his Moniteur des Dates of Schnoor's death in Breslau, without giving the date of death.

From the high Olympus down we got joy

Works

  • Twelve songs by the Counts zu Stollberg set to music. Hamburg 1788
  • Musical bouquet of flowers for connoisseurs and lovers , Hamburg [between 1789 and 1794]
  • Masonic songs set to music , Hamburg 1796
  • Songs, dedicated to the intimate circle , Hamburg 1796
  • The inauguration of the new Doberan Hall: on July 11, 1802 [poem]. Rostock 1802
  • Song of Consecration: presented to the most sublime reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Friedrich Franz . Hamburg 1815
  • Musical bouquet of flowers for the fair sex . Bremen no year
  • Call to Joy, a song for happy companies. Words in Music by H. Ch. Schnoor . Hamburg undated
  • A musical bouquet for women, containing several selected songs along with other pleasant compositions . o. O., o. J.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Wagner: Matriculation of the University of Erlangen , he was 25 years old when he registered in Erlangen in 1791.
  2. ↑ a b Beneke (ADB)
  3. ↑ All information on matriculations according to Leupold, p. 221.
  4. ^ Entry in the church book, accessed on ancestry.com on January 6, 2020
  5. ↑ According to Leupold (p. 224) no longer identifiable in libraries (as of 1987)

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personal data
SURNAME Schnoor, Heinrich Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH after 1828
Place of death Wroclaw