Jakob Moralt
Jakob Moralt (born December 29, 1780 in Munich ; † May 21, 1820 there ) was a violist and royal court musician.
Life
Jakob Moralt was apprenticed to Christof Geitner and learned to play the alto viola, in which he later became a virtuoso. When he was barely 17 he was accepted into the electoral court music as an apprentice. To be allowed to be an apprentice or accessist in the electoral court music were years of apprenticeship to perfect the instrument and to familiarize yourself with the orchestral playing, without payment and without claims to later acceptance into the orchestra ensemble.
Little has been preserved about Jakob Moralt, whose name is mentioned in many domestic and foreign musical encyclopedias, but only so much is certain that he was later a well-appointed royal court musician and a virtuoso on the viola. Jakob Moralt has been a member of the “Musical Academy” in Munich since it was founded.
With his brothers Johann Baptist, Joseph and Philipp he formed the so-called Moralt Quartet, one of the earliest traveling string quartets. Travels took it to Switzerland, France, England and Germany. Contemporary reports say that he gained great fame, especially through concert tours with his brothers, who were all famous as good artists, each on his instrument - according to FJ Lipowsky: "Baierisches Musik-Lexikon, Munich 1811", who called it Contemporary had to know.
“He also played in the Munich orchestra, but not in the quartet” notes, Grove : “ Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Vol. V, page 886 ".
Maybe Jakob was only involved for a short time, because almost at the same time his brother, the violist Georg Moralt, appears as a member of the quartet.
It is certain that Jakob Moralt, now royal court musician, got married on May 29, 1811, at 6 o'clock in the evening in the St. Peters Church in Munich, with Maria Therese Raabin, the daughter of Bräumist from Seefeld, after the royal court music Intendanz had issued the mandatory marriage license for the royal staff.
When Moralt died in 1820, the oldest of his six children was only eight years old. His brother, the royal instrumental director Joseph Moralt , took over the upbringing of the orphans and married their mother, until then his sister-in-law, in 1827.
family
His parents were the musician Adam Moralt (1748–1811) and Maria Anna Kramer. He had at least eight siblings:
- Joseph Moralt (1775–1855), violinist
- Johann Baptist Moralt (1777–1825), composer
- Philipp Moralt (1780-1830), cellist
- Clementine Moralt (1797–1845), opera singer
- Carl Moralt (1800-1853), double bass player
- Friedrich Moralt (1805–1869), horn player
- Anton Moralt (1807–1862), double bass player
- August Moralt (1811–1886), cellist
His brother-in-law was the opera singer Julius Pellegrini (1806-1858).
literature
- Music in the past and present (MGG) . General encyclopedia of music founded by Friedrich Blume.
- Albert Aschl : Morality. Life pictures of a family . (Private doctor 1960)
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Moralt, Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1780 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1820 |
| Place of death | Munich |