Pieter Hellendaal

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Pieter Hellendaal , the Elder , (born April 1, 1721 in Rotterdam , † April 19, 1799 in Cambridge ) was a Dutch composer , organist and violinist .

Life

After a short artistic instruction, Hellendaal was appointed organist at St. Nicolas Church in Utrecht in 1733 . He held this office until 1737. In the same year, at the age of 16, he went on a study trip through Italy, which lasted until 1743.

He spent the years 1740 to 1742 in Padua as a student of Giuseppe Tartini , one of the most important violinists of his time. Back from Italy, Hellendaal worked in Holland again for some time . In 1744 or 1745 he was able to put a work into print for the first time with Six Violin Sonatas . He spent the years 1749 to 1751 studying music at the University of Leiden .

In 1752 he went to London , where he soon made the acquaintance of George Frideric Handel . In 1754 he was even allowed to give Handel a hand in the performance of his Acis and Galatea . From 1760 Hellendaal earned his living as an organist at St. Margaret's Church in King's Lynn , Norfolk . He held this office until 1762.

The Pembroke College of Cambridge University dedicated Hellendaal 1762 as organist. Hellendaal lived and worked there until the end of his life. In 1777 he was entrusted with the office of organist at Peterhouse Chapel . At the age of 78, Pieter Hellendaal died on April 19, 1799 in Cambridge.

The influence of Tartini is palpable in Hellendaal's early musical work, which is then supplanted by Handel in the later work.

His son of the same name, Pieter Hellendaal (the younger) (* around 1756 in London, † after 1801) was a violinist and clarinetist.

Works (selection)

  • 6 sonatas for violin and B. c. Op. 1 (Amsterdam, around 1745)
  • 6 sonatas for violin and B. c. Op. 2 (Amsterdam, 1748)
  • Six grand concerto , Op. 3 (London, 1758) - Huntigdon: King's Music, 1991 Repr. D. Output
  • Six Solos for Violin and B. c. Op. 4 (London, 1777)
  • 8 sonatas for cello and B. c. Op. 5
  • Three Grand Lessons for harpsichord or fortepiano, violin and cello (around 1790, London)
  • 11 sonatas for violin and B. c. (handwritten, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge)
  • A collection of psalms and hymns for the use of parish churches (1793)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Clive Unger-Hamilton, Neil Fairbairn, Derek Walters; German arrangement: Christian Barth, Holger Fliessbach, Horst Leuchtmann, et al .: The music - 1000 years of illustrated music history . Unipart-Verlag, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8122-0132-1 , p. 87 .
personal data
SURNAME Hellendaal, Pieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellendaal, Pieter the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch composer, organist and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1799
Place of death Cambridge