Johann Augustin Kobelius

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Johann Augustin Kobelius (born February 21, 1674 in Wählitz near Hohenmölsen , † August 17, 1731 in Weißenfels ) was a German composer and conductor of the Weissenfeld court .

Life

Kobelius was the son of Pastor August Kobelius, who immigrated from Landshut . His mother was the daughter of the Weißenfeld organist Nicolaus Brause († 1683), who was his first music teacher. He later studied with Johann Christian Schieferdecker and composition with Johann Philipp Krieger , then Kapellmeister at the Weißenfelder Hof. During his student days he made extensive trips that took him to Venice. In 1702 Kobelius was employed as organist at St. Jacobi in Sangerhausen . He was given preference over the 17-year-old competitor Johann Sebastian Bach . In 1703 Kobelius became the director of the city's choral music. In 1713 he became the administrator of the newly built Trinity Chapel in Sangerhausen. In 1725 he was appointed land rent master ( treasurer ).

Kobelius was the last in a series of composers at the Weißenfeld court who made the opera there shine. His predecessors were Reinhard Keizer , Johann David Heinichen and especially Johann Philipp Krieger, who had shaped the opera at court.

Only the solo cantata I fear no death on earth by Kobelius has survived , texts by Erdmann Neumeister (copy, dated 1725), which only had its modern premiere in 2010. Furthermore, Robert Eitner , referring to the musician biography of Ernst Ludwig Gerber (1790), writes in his "Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars" in addition to the Singspiele, serenatas, concerts, overtures, sonatas, volumes of church music, etc. . a. listed, but our public. Biblical none of this as far as I know it .

Stage work (operas)

Kobelius composed a considerable number of German operas.

(first demonstrable performance in Weißenfels, unless otherwise stated)

  • Serenata ... in a panel music (1696)
  • Heinrich, damned innocent, Prince of Valais (1715)
  • The Maze of Love or Livia and Cleander (1716)
  • Innocence Saved or Ali and Sefira (1717)
  • The Happy Deception or Clythia and Orestes (1717); doubtful
  • The Serene Farmer and the Gypsy (1718 Wolfenbüttel); as * The sublime virtue, or Bozena (1725)
  • The Proven and Well Rewarded Loyalty or Cloelia and Pythias (1718)
  • The double happiness of true love between Fernando and Bellamira (1719)
  • Love, although depressed but refreshed again, or Amine and Sefi (1719)
  • Don Carlos and Sidonia (1719)
  • Heavenly Protected Innocence and Virtue or Bellerophon (1720)
  • Damoetas and Euphrasia (1720 Sangerhausen; probably by Kobelius)
  • Numidia, happily linked to Persia through constant love, or Achmed and Almeide (1721)
  • Triumphant Love (1723)
  • The Triumph of Loyalty, or Bellinde (1724)
  • Triumphant Luck, or Augustus and Livia (1727)
  • Selimone and Cloridan (1727)
  • The faithful shepherdess Doris (1728)
  • Mark Antony and Cleopatra (1728)
  • Ismene and Menelaus (1728)
  • Meleager and Atalanta (1729)
  • Paris and Oenone (1729)
  • Theseus and Helena (1729)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerald Drebes, Rediscovery of Bach's competitor Kobelius, 2010 Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gerald-drebes.ch
  2. ^ Robert Eitner: Biographical-bibliographical source-lexicon of musicians and music scholars p. 398 (1901)
personal data
SURNAME Kobelius, Johann Augustin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and Kapellmeister
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1674
PLACE OF BIRTH Wählitz near Hohenmölsen
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1731
Place of death Weissenfels