Johann Baptist Wendling

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Johann Baptist Wendling (baptized June 17, 1723 in Ribeauvillé (Rappoltsweiler); † November 27, 1797 in Munich ) was a German composer of the Mannheim School and flautist in the Age of Enlightenment .

Life

Information sign on the house where he was born in Grand 'Rue de l'Église No. 6
Birthplace

Wendling was the son of a family of musicians based in the Alsatian whistler town of Ribeauvillé and was in the service of Duke Christian IV von Zweibrücken as a flautist and flute teacher from around 1746 to 1752. In 1749 the flutist won several concerts in Potsdam, recognized by Frederick the Great , who gave him a golden tobacco box as a token of his appreciation. On January 9, 1752, he married the singer Dorothea Spurni in Mannheim , who in 1758 became the prima donna of the Mannheim court opera and was one of the most important singing teachers at the Mannheim school . In the same year Wendling became the flute teacher of Elector Karl Theodorvon der Pfalz, probably in late 1753, he was accepted as the first flutist in the court orchestra there, whose orchestra was one of the most musically innovative and style-forming ensembles in the second half of the 18th century. In 1778 Wendling followed the Elector to Munich - like most of the Palatinate court music - but returned to Mannheim several times in his entourage (1782, 1785, 1786, 1788).

Wendling was a member of the Freemason Lodge Carl zur Eintracht in Mannheim. The family was friendly and a. with Johann Christian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .

Wendling was one of the best flute virtuosos of his time. Numerous concert tours, e.g. Sometimes together with his wife, they took him to Paris and London, but also to Amsterdam, The Hague, Vienna and Berlin, where he was a. a. presented with his own compositions. His concerts and chamber music appeared for the first time in Paris, London, Amsterdam and Mannheim.

Wendling also enjoyed a great reputation as a flute teacher. Among his most famous students were François Devienne , Johann Georg Metzger, Johann Baptist Becke and Johann Nikolaus Heroux.

Literature (selection)

  • Felix Joseph Lipowsky: Baierisches Musik-Lexikon , Munich 1811, p. 387.
  • Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart: Ideas for an Aesthetics of Tonkunst , Vienna 1806, p. 143f.
  • Roland Würtz: Art. "Wendling, Johann Baptist", in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 1st edition, 20th volume, London 1980, pp. 339-340.
  • Emily Jill Gunson: Johann Baptist Wendling (1723–1797): Life, Works, Artistry, and Influence; including a Thematic Catalog of all his Composition , Ph.D. Diss., University of Western Australia, 1999.
  • Emily Jill Gunson: Art. "Wendling, Johann Baptist", in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 2nd ed., 27th vol., London 2001, pp. 280–282.
  • Emily Jill Gunson: "The Court of Carl Theodor:› a Paradise for Flautists ‹", in: Mannheim - a ›Paradise of the Tonkünstler?‹. Congress report Mannheim 1999 , ed. by Ludwig Finscher, Bärbel Pelker u. Rüdiger Thomsen-Fürst (= sources and studies on the history of the Mannheim court orchestra 8), Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2002, pp. 263-283.
  • Bärbel Pelker: Art. "Wendling, Family", in Music in Past and Present , Person Part 17, ed. by Ludwig Finscher , Kassel a. a. 2007, col. 765-769.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Register of the Catholic Church of Saint Ignatius and Saint Franz Xaver, Mannheim.
  2. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. 4th edition. tape 4 . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  3. ↑ Emily Jill Gunson: Johann Baptist Wendling. List of works
personal data
SURNAME Wendling, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer of the Mannheim School and flautist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Ribeauvillé (Rappoltsweiler)
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1797
Place of death Munich