Jacob Bernhard Limburger
Jacob Bernhard Limburger (born May 14, 1770 in Leipzig ; † February 26, 1847 there ) was a German businessman , music organizer and singer .
Born and raised in Leipzig, Limburger was a merchant in the field of silk and yarn. He owned the Limburger jr silk and yarn shop founded in 1747.
His passion was music. From 1799 to 1847 he was a member of the board of directors of the Gewandhaus concerts and appeared as the organizer of a musical circle in Leipzig. In 1802, with Johann Gottfriedschicht , he founded the Leipzig Singing Academy , which was the city's first mixed amateur choir and the second oldest singing academy based on the Berlin model, the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin . In 1815 he brought the Liedertafel zu Leipzig into being, the members of which were encouraged to be active in composing or poetry themselves.
He also appeared as a singer ( bass ) himself , including in 1806 in the oratorio “Das Ende der Gerechten”.
In 1795 he married Henriette Julie Küstner, a daughter of Heinrich Küstner and sister of the theater director Karl Theodor von Küstner . In 1814 he built a country house at Prinz-Eugen-Straße 17 in the Leipzig suburb of Connewitz . From 1814 to 1818 Limburger was head of the Georgenhaus , a predecessor of today's St. Georg Clinic . He belonged to the Familiar Society , a charitable association of the economically leading Leipzig merchants. From 1842 to 1847 he was her sub-senior. Limburger also belonged to the Leipzig Masonic Lodge Balduin zur Linde .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig A - Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8
- ↑ Thomas Liebscher: In the Leipzig Pleisseland. Connewitz, Lössnig, Dölitz. Passage-Verlag Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-9804313-4-7 , p. 170
- ^ Object description in the Leipzig City History Museum
literature
- Carl Ferdinand Becker : The Tonkünstler Of The Nineteenth Century - A Calendar Handbook on Art History . Kössling bookstore,
- Peter Schmitz: Johannes Brahms and the Leipziger Musikverlag Breitkopf & Härtel , Treatises on the History of Music, Volume 20 , V & R unipress, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-728-0
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Limburger, Jacob Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman, music organizer and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1770 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1847 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |