Johann Christian Firnhaber

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Johann Christian Firnhaber (born October 14, 1753 in Langenhagen , † February 23, 1828 in Hanover ) was a Hanoverian musician , composer , pianist , piano teacher and music dealer .

Life

Johann Christian Firnhaber was the eldest son of the cantor, organist and teacher in Langenhagen and Rehburg am Steinhuder Meer Heinrich Firnhaber (1723–1772). After the death of his father, he went to Hanover and taught music there. A few years later he went to the court of the tsars in Petersburg and Moscow as a musician . In Moscow he also worked as a piano teacher and music dealer.

After the death of Tsarina Catherine the Great , Firnhaber returned to Germany and married Anna Sophia Friederike Cludius (1773–1822) in Hanover in 1798. At the turn of the 19th century he was one of the culturally formative personalities of educated urban society.

In 1802 Firnhaber campaigned for the establishment of a music academy in Hanover .

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Firnhaber had his wife put a - preserved - classically worked sandstone block as a tombstone in the garden cemetery . His own tomb, presumably placed next to his wife's, was lost.

Archival material

An archival by and about Johann Christian Firnhaber be found, for example,

  • Firnhaber's printed works found in archives in Jönköping (Sweden) and Vienna in 1987 .

literature

  • Dietrich Kröncke: "Happy time and excellent band." Composers in Hanover. Her life, her work, the reception of her works and the memory of her in the music city of Hanover , Hanover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86525-549-5 and ISBN 3-86525-549-3 , p 84-86
  • Eberhard Firnhaber: A forgotten musician. For the 250th birthday of Johann Christian Firnhaber (1753–1828) . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Double Volume 57/58 (2003/2004), pp. 261–265
  • Eberhard Firnhaber: The Hanoverian musician Johann Christian Firnhaber and Haydn's “Paukenschlag” . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , 2014

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Remarks

  1. ↑ According to the GWLB's database of Lower Saxon people, there are "deviating information: place of birth Hildesheim and date of death 1823"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f o. V .: Firnhaber, Johann Christian in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB) in the version of "19.09.2019" (obviously a typo) , last accessed on May 26, 2019
  2. ↑ Angelika Weißmann (text), Silke Beck, Nadine Köpper, Claudia Wollkopf (editor): City and state historical significance , in this: The former garden cemetery. A garden monument of national importance. Ed .: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, the Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Hannover: 2019, pp. 24–27; here: p. 25f.
  3. ↑ a b Eberhard Firnhaber: A forgotten musician. For the 250th birthday of Johann Christian Firnhaber (1753 - 1828) . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Double Volume 57/58 (2003/2004), pp. 261–265
personal data
SURNAME Firnhaber, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian musician, composer, pianist, piano teacher and music dealer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenhagen
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1828
Place of death Hanover