Henry of Saint-Julien

Heinrich Friedrich von Saint-Julien , also of St. Julien or French Henri-Frédéric de Saint-Julien (born January 6, 1801 in Mannheim , † November 13, 1844 in Karlsruhe ), was a Baden lawyer, Grand Ducal Baden war council and composer and choirmaster .

Life

Heinrich von Saint-Julien came from the Austrian noble family of those von Saint-Julien , whose family allegedly dates back to the 13th century in France under the old name Guyard de Saint Julien . He was the second son from the first marriage of Colonel Lambert von Saint-Julien (1754-1837) with the late Henriette Bertrand (1775-1803), who came from an earlier patrician family from Neuchâtel.

From 1819, von Saint-Julien studied law at the University of Heidelberg under Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut , of which he was also a member. After completing his studies, he began his civil service as a secretary in the Baden War Ministry. In Karlsruhe he took composition lessons from his friend Friedrich Ernst Fesca . He particularly enjoyed composing a wide variety of pieces and researching ancient church music .

On April 23, 1825 he married Rosa Gulat von Wellenburg (1799–1852), a daughter of Daniel Gulat von Wellenburg (1764–1839), who was ennobled in 1800 . From the marriage, their daughter Victoria emerged in May 1831. In 1826 he became an assessor at the Baden General Auditorium .

Influenced by Thibaut, whose work On Purity of Tonal Art , published in 1824, is considered the root of Cäcilianism , he founded the Society for Serious Choral Music in Karlsruhe in 1826 , which he headed until the early 1860s. This association, which continued until around 1847 after his death, was headed after him by the Karlsruhe seminar teacher and composer Anton Gersbach (1803–1848). The purpose of the association was "... through regular choir exercises and performances to reawaken the sense and understanding of the old masters of Catholic and Protestant church music, as well as for the works of Bach 's and Handel 's, as well as to spread it in wider circles , and to open up a place of thriving effectiveness for serious vocal music in general . ”Through the association he came into contact with like-minded representatives, for example with Caspar Ett and his friend Sigismund von Neukomm .

From 1830 he became an assessor at the War Ministry "with oath and vote". In 1835 he was promoted to the council of war. In the summer of 1840 he became incurably ill from a diagnosed "condition of the cranial nerve ", from which he died in November 1844.

On February 15, 1845, the Society for Serious Choral Music in Karlsruhe organized a memorial service in his honor. Ferdinand Simon Gaßner wrote an obituary that included two issues of his magazine for Germany's music associations and amateurs in March 1845.

literature

• In memory of Heinrich von St. Julien. Dedicated to his friends and admirers. In: Journal for Germany's music clubs and amateurs. IV. Volume, No. 18 with continuation in No. 19, edited by Ferdinand Simon Gaßner , Karlsruhe, March 1845. ( limited preview in Google book search)
• Heinrich Giehne: Heinrich of Saint-Julien. In: Friedrich von Weech (ed.): Badische Biographieen . Second part. G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1875, pp. 228-229. ( Digitized version )

Web links

• Compositions by Heinrich Friedrich von Saint-Julien in the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} St. Julien. In: Friedrich Cast: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden. 1st section, 1st volume, Stuttgart 1844, p. 301 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search)
2. ^ ^{A b} Saint-Julien, (Säng-Schüljeng), Heinrich von. In: Eduard Bernsdorf (Hrsg.): New universal lexicon of music art for artists, art lovers and all educated people. Robert Schäfer, Dresden 1861, p. 414. ( limited preview in Google book search)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} see Heinrich Giehne's contribution to the Badische Biographien (reference)
4. ^ Associations and choirs. In: Joachim Draheim : Karlsruhe Music History. Hoepfner Library in Info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2004, p. 41. ISBN 978-3-881-90357-8 ( limited preview in Google book search)
5. ↑ Saint-Julien, Heinr. from. In: Complete collection of the Grand Ducal Baden Government Gazettes , from the creation 1803 to the end of 1833. Second volume, Verlag der DR Marr'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Karlsruhe and Baden 1834, p. 756.