Heinrich Valentin Beck
Heinrich Valentin Beck (born April 4, 1698 in Maar (Lauterbach) ; buried April 15, 1758 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German cantor and composer .
life and work
Beck's family originally came from Thuringia. His father was a schoolmaster and organist in Maar. Beck received his first lessons from his father, later presumably at the Latin school in Lauterbach (Hesse) . Beck was cantor in Lauterbach from 1718 to 1734 and in Hanau from 1734 to 1737 .
In 1738 he was appointed Vice-Kapelldirektor under Johann Balthasar König in Frankfurt am Main . His tasks included leading the church music at St. Peter's Church in the Neustadt as well as performing the bass parts at St. Catherine's Church . He also gave piano lessons in patrician families in Frankfurt. His sponsors included the patron Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach and the Frankfurt city school, Johann Wolfgang Textor ; From 1753 to 1755 he taught his daughter Catharina Elisabeth Goethe .
Beck conducted numerous public concerts by the town band, mainly with works by Georg Philipp Telemann . He copied over 300 of his cantatas, which are now collected in the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library .
Works
Two cantatas by Beck have survived, one of them fragmentary:
- I am about to finish my cantata for the 16th Sunday after Trinity
- Baptismal music
The other six cantatas previously ascribed to him are by Telemann.
literature
- Roman Fischer: Beck, Heinrich Valentin in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon (revised online version, status: February 2, 2018, accessed on January 6, 2020), as well as in: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 48 .
Web links
- Axel Beer, Martina Faletta: Article about Heinrich Valentin Beck in Music and Musicians on the Middle Rhine
- Beck, Heinrich Valentin in the Hessische Biographie (status: November 14, 2016, accessed on January 6, 2020)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beck, Heinrich Valentin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cantor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1698 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maar (Lauterbach) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1758 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |