Johan Philip Degen

Johan Philip Casper Degen (born 1738 in Wolfenbüttel ; died January 22, 1789 in Copenhagen ) was a German musician, porcelain and miniature painter, who moved with his family to Copenhagen in Denmark to work as a chamber musician in the Royal Chapel there as “first cellist " to play.

Life

Degen was the son of the violinist Gerhard Degen, who was active in the music band of Duke Karl I of Braunschweig. He got his first job with the Nicolinisches Theater-Orchester zu Braunschweig. At the age of 19 he was assigned to his father and later took over his position. He was also employed as a painter in the Duke of Braunschweig Porcelain Manufactory Fürstenberg . When the company stopped operating, he traveled through Germany, Sweden and Denmark, so that he finally came to Copenhagen to play in the Royal Band. He composed several cantatas , including for the Freemasons , for example the 1779 cantata for Hohe Johannes-Feyer based on a text by Werner Hans Friedrich Abrahamson. As a former porcelain painter, he also made miniatures for the Danish queen widow Juliane Marie . Degen died in 1789 just a few months after his wife Henriette Regine (nee Schultz) died on September 1, 1788. The couple had eight children, including the mathematician Carl Ferdinand Degen .

literature

VC Ravn: Degen, Johan Philip . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 4 : Clemens – Eynden . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1890, p. 228 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Sword, Johan Philip Caspar . In: Benezit Dictionary of Artists . doi : 10.1093 / benz / 9780199773787.article.B00048123 (English).
Johan Conrad Spengler: Johan Philip Casper Degen . In: Artistiske Efterretninger som Bidrag til Dansk Kunsthistorie . 2016, OCLC 1000107714 , p. 15-16 ( kb.dk [PDF]).

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Mendel, August Reissmann: Degen, Johann Philipp . In: Musical Conversations Lexicon. An encyclopedia of the entire musical sciences . L. Heimann, J. Schuberth, Berlin, / New York 1870, p. 99 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Gustav Schilling, Gottfried Wilhelm Fink: Degen, Johann Philipp . In: Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences or Universal Lexicon of Music . Braga up to F minor . Köhler, 1840, p. 379 ( books.google.de ).
^ Entry "JP Degen" In: Das Fürstenberger Porzellan - Internet Archive p. 78.
↑ Malcolm Davies: Freemasonry and Music . In: Handbook of Freemasonry . 2014, p. 495-522 , doi : 10.1163 / 9789004273122_028 .
↑ Cantata on the high Johannisfeyer . In: Declamations about some mason duties: along with a cantata on the high Johannisfeyer . Proft, 1776, p. 91 ff . ( books.google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Sword, Johan Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Degen, Johan Philip Casper (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German musician, porcelain and miniature painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1738
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH	January 22, 1789
Place of death	Copenhagen

[1] Hermann Mendel, August Reissmann: Degen, Johann Philipp . In: Musical Conversations Lexicon. An encyclopedia of the entire musical sciences . L. Heimann, J. Schuberth, Berlin, / New York 1870, p. 99 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Gustav Schilling, Gottfried Wilhelm Fink: Degen, Johann Philipp . In: Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences or Universal Lexicon of Music . Braga up to F minor . Köhler, 1840, p. 379 ( books.google.de ).

[3] Entry "JP Degen" In: Das Fürstenberger Porzellan - Internet Archive p. 78.

[4] Malcolm Davies: Freemasonry and Music . In: Handbook of Freemasonry . 2014, p. 495-522 , doi : 10.1163 / 9789004273122_028 .

[5] Cantata on the high Johannisfeyer . In: Declamations about some mason duties: along with a cantata on the high Johannisfeyer . Proft, 1776, p. 91 ff . ( books.google.de ).