Jean Arnold Antoine Tuerlinckx

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Jean Arnold Antoine Tuerlinckx (born November 22, 1753 in Aarschot , † December 19, 1827 in Mechelen ) was a Belgian musical instrument maker in Mechelen.

Life

Tuerlinckx bassoon

Tuerlinckx was the son of a watchmaker , from whom he was introduced to precision mechanics and instrument making. Tuerlinckx began building instruments at the age of 18 when he copied a new clarinet from France.

In 1782 Tuerlinckx married and moved to Mechelen. The workshop he founded there in the same year manufactured wood and brass instruments, including the clarinet d'amour . Tuerlinckx built, among other things, flutes , clarinets, oboes and bassoons (in different formats and from different woods, with ornaments made of ivory, horn or bone and keys made of copper or silver), trumpets , horns , serpents , trombones , pedal harps , cymbals , timpani and Big drums .

England, France, Germany, Austria and Bohemia were the countries of origin of the musical instruments that military musicians brought to Tuerlinckx for repairs on their way through. In the course of the coalition wars , the inhabitants of his region came to three different nationalities. Tuerlinckx profited by making sketches of the technical innovations and was technologically ahead of the local competition. During the reign of terror (1793/1794) Tuerlinckx was imprisoned, but after that he was able to expand his business and win customers in France and Germany.

Tuerlinckx was married twice. First he married Catherine Meikens in 1782. From this marriage his eldest son, the composer Corneille Jean Joseph Tuerlinckx (1783–1855) emerged. After his first wife died in 1808, Tuerlinckx married Marie Clavers the following year. Her children included the sculptor Joseph Jean Tuerlinckx (1809–1873) and the painter and lithographer Louis Benoit Antoine Tuerlinckx (1820–1894). Tuerlinckx had a total of six sons and five daughters.

After Tuerlinckx's death, the company was continued by his son Corneille Jean Joseph Tuerlinckx. Both father and son marked the instruments with Tuerlinckx / Malines or Tuerlinckx à Malines , which makes it almost impossible to differentiate between their work. The company had 40 employees, built instruments for civil and military orchestras and was the most important manufacturer in Belgium in its field.

literature

  • Raymond van Aerde: Les Tuerlinckx, luthiers à Malines , Malines 1914

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Will Jansen: The Bassoon. Its History, Construction, Makers, Players and Music , Volume I, Buren 1978, p. 510 f.
  2. ↑ a b c Tuerlinckx. In: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Volume 19, Macmillan Publishers, 1980, p. 250.
  3. ^ A b Albert R. Rice: From the Clarinet D'Amour to the Contra Bass: A History of Large Size Clarinets, 1740-1860 , Oxford 2009, p. 53.
  4. ^ A b Ernest Closson: Tuerlinckx (Jean Arnold Antoine). In: Biography Nationale de Belgique . Volume 25. Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Thiry, Brussels 1930–1932, pp. 824–825 ( PDF ).
  5. ↑ Anne Pustlauk: The simple system flute between 1790 and 1850, its performance practice and chamber music repertoire with piano forte and / or strings , Univ. Diss., Brussels 2016, p. 12. [1]
  6. ^ Albert R. Rice: The Clarinet in the Classical Period , Oxford 2008
personal data
SURNAME Tuerlinckx, Jean Arnold Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tuerlinckx, Jean-Arnold Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian musical instrument maker
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarschot
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1827
Place of death Mechelen