Jean Baptiste Vezin

Jean Baptiste Vezin (* 27. July 1712 in Hannover , † 8 January 1794 ) was a violinist and Royal British court - concertmaster .

Life

Jean Baptiste was born as the son of the electoral Hanoverian and later royal British court and chamber musician Pierre Vezin in the royal seat of Hanover.

After his musical training first in Hanover, then in Turin , Milan and London , Vezin took over the position of his father, who died in the same year, in 1727 - at this time his sovereigns were already residing as George I and his son George II royal court and chamber musician in the Hanover court orchestra .

Almost four decades later, Vezin took over the position of royal concertmaster in Hanover in 1765, succeeding Johann Heinrich Preuss . If necessary, he was represented in this activity by the composer Jakob Herschel .

Vezin had married Caecilie , a daughter of the hydraulic engineer Etienne Maillet de Fourton . With her he had a daughter named Maria Anna Francisca , who in 1774 married the fountain master and hydraulic engineer Jean Joseph La Croix in the Catholic Church of St. Clemens in Calenberger Neustadt .

See also

• Exhibition When the Royals came from Hanover . Hanover's ruler on England's throne 1714-1837 as part of the Lower Saxony State Exhibition 2014

literature

• Wulf Konold (Ges.-Red.), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author): The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986 , ed. by the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hannover GmbH, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986, ISBN 3-87706-041-2 , p. 176.
• Hugo Thielen : VEZIN, (1) Jean Baptiste. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 369 online via Google books .
• Hugo Thielen: Vezin, (1) Jean Baptiste. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 643.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hugo Thielen: VEZIN, (1) ... (see literature)
2. ↑ Hugo Thielen: Herschel, (3) Heinrich Anton Jacob. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 166; online through google books
3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Family history around Herrenhausen's fountains. In: Hanover portraits. Life pictures from seven centuries , Hanover: Harenberg, 1983, p. 50ff.