Ignaz Anton Ladurner

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Ignaz Anton Ladurner (born August 1, 1766 in Aldein , † March 4, 1839 in Villaine , Massy (Essonne) ) was a composer.

family

Ignatz Anton Ladurner was a son of Franz Xaver Ladurner (1735–1782) and Maria Theresia (* 1744). His father worked as a teacher and organist in Aldein and later in Algund . The paternal grandparents were the blacksmith Joseph Ladurner, who came from the old Algund “Bindhofer” family, and Margaretha Voglperger. The maternal grandparents were Matthias Götsch and Maria Kröß.

Ladurner married the violinist Agathe Victoire Magnier de Gondreville († 1823) in Paris in 1797 , with whom he had the son Adolphe (1798-1856), who was a battle-man and a master of the war. Portrait painter became known.

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Ladurner attended elementary school and received basic musical training from his father. From 1775 to 1782 he studied at the boys' seminar of the Benediktbeuern Abbey and then worked for two years as the successor to his late father in Algund. His brother Joseph Alois then took over this position. From 1784 to 1786 he lived in Munich . There he received music lessons and finished high school in 1785. He then worked for the Countess Haimhausen and went to France on her behalf in 1786. He lived for two years on the Countess's estate in Longueville near Bar-le-Duc and then passed this position on to his brother.

In July 1788 Ladurner moved to Paris and worked there as "Maître de piano et compositeur". From 1790, piano and chamber music works by Ladurner were regularly put to print there. In 1793 there was an extremely successful performance of his first opera "Wenzel ou le Magistrat du peuple", followed in 1796 by his comic opera "Les vieux fous". In 1797 he was appointed professor of piano at the newly created Paris Conservatory. He allegedly gave up to 15 hours of piano lessons a day and, due to the lack of time, was no longer concerned with extensive works, but only composed chamber music.

Ladurner's students at the Paris Conservatory achieved very good results, and his private students included several later famous composers, including Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly and Daniel-François-Esprit Auber . For some time Ladurner played as an organist in Napoleon's court orchestra. In 1836, due to health problems, he moved to the Villaine estate near Massy, ​​which he had bought in 1819.

style

Unlike contemporary Parisian composers, Ladurner composed not only traditionally and thematically strictly limited, but also used bold harmonic and chromatic variations that are reminiscent of early romanticism. He clearly took up influences from composers who were active at the time, such as Muzio Clementi , but nevertheless developed his own tonal language. His piano works sometimes resemble the early works of Beethoven .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Gertrud Spat:  Ladurner, Ignaz Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 396 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Ladurner, Ignaz Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Aldein
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1839
Place of death Villaine