Bernhard Joachim Hagen

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Bernhard Joachim Hagen , also Joachim Bernhard Hagen (born April 1720 near Hamburg (?); † December 9, 1787 in Ansbach ) was a German composer , violinist and lutenist .

Life

Little is known about Hagen's youth, but he evidently grew up in a musical family. His brother Peter Albrecht (van) Hagen (1714–1777) studied the violin with Francesco Geminiani , learned to play the lute and the organ and was an organist in Rotterdam .

Bernhard Joachim Hagen must have learned the lute and violin at an early age, because he was employed as assistant to the Bayreuth violin virtuoso and conductor Johann Pfeiffer as early as 1737 , and later officially as a violinist at the court. He kept this position at Bayreuth and from 1769 at Ansbacher Hof until his death. Adam Falckenhagen and Charles Durant , who Wilhelmine von Bayreuth had also appointed to the Bayreuth court, could have continued to teach him how to play the lute.

Hagen married Anna Fikentscher from Bayreuth in 1745 († May 22, 1789 in Ansbach). In 1760 and 1761 he visited his brother in Rotterdam and gave five concerts there from November to March.

Work and effect

Although Hagen was employed as a violinist at the Bayreuth court, his virtuoso lute playing as well as his compositions for the lute were widely known and appreciated. He is considered the most important composer for this instrument of the post- Weiss era , at least more important than his two teachers Falckenhagen and Durant. Farstadt describes his gallant style of the pre-Classical period as being shaped by the emerging sensitivity and the beginning Sturm und Drang period.

Thanks to the commitment of Margravine Wilhelmine, lute music experienced its last heyday in the 18th century until it was rediscovered in the 20th century. Instrumentalists of our time like Farstadt and Barto see a great enrichment for the lute in Hagen's work: The high quality of his lute pieces not only raises questions about the interpretation at the time, but at the same time his style is "extroverted and virtuoso, sweet and elegant". Playing his works today not only requires a good instrument, but also a high degree of technical virtuosity.

Compositions

All 33 known compositions by Bernhard Joachim Hagen are in the Augsburg State and City Library as a large tablature manuscript in Fascicle III Tonkunst , as follows:

  • 12 sonatas for solo lute
  • 6 trios for lute, violin and violoncello
  • 2 lute concerts
  • 1 duo for two lutes
  • 1 duo for lute and violin
  • Numerous lute arrangements of compositions by Geminiani , Locatelli , Arne and others.

The solo works and duo in c minor (1983) and chamber music (1984) were made accessible again as facsimile editions by the editor Joachim Domning , both published in two volumes by the Hamburg-based Joachim Trekel Musikverlag.

Recorded on CD by the baroque lutenist Robert Barto are among others:

  • Joachim Bernhard Hagen, Solo Works for Lute: Five Sonatas, Locatelli Variations (Naxos 8.554200)
  • Bernhard Joachim Hagen, Sonata à Liuto solo (Symphonia Sy98164)

Some of his works, which were listed in the Breitkopf catalog in 1769 , are considered lost.

literature

  • Ernst Ludwig Gerber: Historical-biographical lexicon of the Tonkünstler. Part 1. 1790
  • Rainer Trübsbach: History of the City of Bayreuth . Druckhaus Bayreuth, 1993, ISBN 978-3-922808-35-0 , p. 464 .
  • Robert Barto: Bernhard Joachim Hagen, Sonata à Liuto solo booklet for CD, 1999
  • Per Kjetil Farstad: Bernhard Joachim Hagen (1720-87): Some New Biographical Information . In: The Lute. Journal of the Lute Society . Volume 40, 2000, pp. 1-11.

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personal data
SURNAME Hagen, Bernhard Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagen, Joachim Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and lutenist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH near Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1787
Place of death Ansbach