Joachim Hoffmann (composer)

Joachim Johann Hoffmann (born November 10, 1784 in Untermarkersdorf ; † June 1, 1856 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer and music teacher.

life and work

Joachim Hoffmann was first mentioned in his musicianship in 1813 as a "sound artist" living in Vienna. He worked there as a sought-after piano teacher and teacher of music theory and figured bass . The students at the private school he ran included Leopoldine Blahetka and Joseph August Adam . There is , however, no evidence for the information, which can be found in various ways and which goes back to his first biographer Ludwig Eisenberg , that Johann Strauss (son) also studied harmony and counterpoint with Hoffmann.

He also appeared several times as a composer, for example in 1818 with a mass for choir and orchestra in the Italian Church , and continued with cantatas and smaller church music works, but also symphonies, chamber and piano music. Hoffmann contributed a variation to a waltz by Anton Diabelli (who had inspired a total of 50 contemporary composers to each create a variation on a self-composed waltz, which was published under the title " Vaterländischer Künstlerverein "; Beethoven processed the theme in his own Diabelli variations ).

Joachim Hoffmann was the author of the publisher Haslinger published harmony. Guide to teaching and self-teaching . In 1850 he was awarded the Austrian Golden Medal for Art and Science.

literature

Christian Fastl: Hoffmann family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
François-Joseph Fétis: Biography universelle des musiciens. Volume 4. 2nd edition. Firmin Didot, Paris 1863, p. 350 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Constantin von Wurzbach : Hoffmann, Joachim . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1863, p. 170 ( digital copy ).

Web links

Sheet music and audio files by Joachim Hoffmann in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

^ Ludwig Eisenberg: Johann Strauss. A picture of life, designed by Ludwig Eisenberg. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1894, p. 42 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Edmund Nick: Johann Strauss (son). In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 12 (Schoberlechner - Symphonic Poetry). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1965, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 1453–1474, here Sp. 1465 (= Digital Library Volume 60, pp. 71768–71807)
↑ Peter Kemp: Strauss, Johann (ii). In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
↑ Norbert Linke: Music is conquering the world or how the Strauss family in Vienna revolutionized “popular music”. Herold, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7008-0361-3 , p. 153.

personal data
SURNAME	Hoffmann, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hoffmann, Joachim Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	November 10, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH	Untermarkersdorf
DATE OF DEATH	June 1, 1856
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Ludwig Eisenberg: Johann Strauss. A picture of life, designed by Ludwig Eisenberg. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1894, p. 42 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Edmund Nick: Johann Strauss (son). In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 12 (Schoberlechner - Symphonic Poetry). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1965, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 1453–1474, here Sp. 1465 (= Digital Library Volume 60, pp. 71768–71807)

[3] Peter Kemp: Strauss, Johann (ii). In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

[4] Norbert Linke: Music is conquering the world or how the Strauss family in Vienna revolutionized “popular music”. Herold, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7008-0361-3 , p. 153.