Johann Baptist Jenger

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Jenger, Anselm Hüttenbrenner and Franz Schubert, lithograph by Teltscher

Johann Baptist Jenger (born March 23, 1793 in Kirchhofen near Freiburg , † March 30, 1856 in Vienna ) was an Austrian civil servant and musician from the circle of Franz Schubert .

Life

Jenger was from 1818-1825 as an adjunct in the k. k. Field Chancellery in Graz and was involved in the board of the Steiermärkischer Musikverein . Jenger has also emerged as a pianist and organist.

Since his transfer to Vienna, he has been the director of the law firm of the local music association . He was the piano accompanist for Carl von Schönstein and often played with Schubert or in his presence. The organization of a musical evening with the performance of Schubert's last three piano sonatas and songs (on September 27, 1828 with Dr. Ignaz Menz) goes back to Jenger, to whom Schubert's last private letters have been handed down from September and October 1828. Around 1830 Jenger wrote a biographical sketch about Anselm Hüttenbrenner .

Jenger was close friends with the brothers Hüttenbrenner and the family Marie , Karl and Faust Pachler in Graz as well as the castle actress Sophie Müller and the draftsman and lithographer Joseph Teltscher .

literature

  • Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn : Franz Schubert . Vienna 1865. (First printing of letters, including about Schubert to Marie and Karl Pachler)
  • Otto Erich Deutsch : From Beethoven's last days. (Letters from Johann Baptist Jengers to Marie Leopoldine Pachler-Koschak) . In: Österreichische Rundschau , Vienna, Vol. 10, Issue 3, February 1, 1907, pp. 189–203.
  • Otto Erich Deutsch: Schubert's stay in Graz 1827 . In: Die Musik 6 (1907), pp. 22–106.
  • Karl Becker: Johann Baptist Jenger (1793–1856) A friend of Franz Schubert from Breisgau. A contribution to the 150th anniversary of Schubert's death (published by the Alemannisches Inst. Freiburg i. Br., No. 45); Bühl / Baden 1978.
  • Georg Locher: Marie Pachler's Salon. A contribution to Austrian elite research , Diss.Graz 1990.
  • Jenger Johann Baptist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 104.
  • Till Gerrit Waidelich: An unknown Schubert letter from 1828 . In: Schubert through the glasses 18, 1997, pp. 5-7.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ According to the ÖBL (see link) and almost all of Schubert and Beethoven literature, Jenger is said to have been born in 1792 (or 1797), but the prayer book of Jenger's father Anton Jenger (1760–1840) clearly records the year 1793. On Karl Becker already refers to this error, s. Lit., p. 16. And finally, the necrological entry on Jenger in the Wiener Zeitung points to 1793, since his age is given as "63".
  2. ^ Till Gerrit Waidelich: An unknown Schubert letter from 1828 . In: Schubert through the glasses 18, 1997, pp. 5-7.
  3. ^ Anton Schlossar:  Pachler, Faust . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 160-165.
  4. ↑ Joseph Kürschner:  Müller, Sophie . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 674.
personal data
SURNAME Jenger, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil servant and musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchhofen near Freiburg
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1856
Place of death Vienna