Johann August Landvoigt

Johann August Landvoigt (born November 9 or 10, 1715 in Gaschwitz ; † February 16, 1766 in Marienberg / Erzgebirge) was a German lawyer and flautist .

Life

Landvoigt was born in 1715 as the son of the "art and pleasure gardener" or " Hortulanus " Johann August Landvoigt and his wife Dorothea, b. Schiel, born in Gaschwitz. From 1730 he attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig as an "external" and from 1731 as an "alumnus" . There he wrote the text for the lost Bach cantata Thomana sat sad annoch ( BWV Anh. 19) by Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach , which was performed in 1734 on the occasion of the welcome of the new rector of the Thomas School, Johann August Ernesti . In 1737 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig , where he heard from Johann Christoph Gottsched around 1740 .

In the Tabula Musicorum of the Great Concert, the predecessor of the Gewandhaus Concerts , he is listed as the first flutist from 1746 to 1748. From 1753 to 1755 he was demonstrably a notary in Leipzig. He is also listed in the Leipzig address book (1755) as an honorary member of the Gesellschaft der Freyen Künste zu Leipzig and “Juris Practicus”. Most recently, according to the death entry, he was "Elector's thoroughbred general-excis commissioner in the Erzgebirge Kreyse, well-appointed to Saxony".

In 1758 in Marienberg he married Sophie Friederike Schlegel, a descendant of Lucas Cranach the Elder. and aunt of August Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel .

literature

• Hans-Rainer Jung: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. With contributions to cultural and contemporary history by Claudius Böhm , Faber and Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 20 f.

Web links

• Johann August Landvoigt at Bach Cantatas (English)