Johann Christian Hertel

Johann Christian Hertel (born June 25, 1697 or 1699 in Oettingen , † October 1754 in Strelitz ) was a German composer , violinist and viol virtuoso .

Life

Hertel was born as the only son of a Princely Oettingian and later Sachsen-Merseburg Kapellmeister . He learned the violin autodidactically and piano from the Merseburg court organist Kaufmann . After aborting theology studies in Halle (Saale) , he traveled to Darmstadt with Ernst Christian Hesse with the help of a scholarship from Duke Moritz Wilhelm of Merseburg and studied viola da gamba with him. From 1718 to 1741 he was concertmaster in Eisenach , from 1742 until its dissolution in 1753 he was concertmaster of the Ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitz court orchestra in Neustrelitz, succeeding Johann Georg Linike . As a gambist he toured Dresden, Kassel, Weimar, Braunschweig, Meiningen, Gotha and Berlin, among others. In addition to orchestral and chamber music, his compositions included many sonatas for violin and viola da gamba, but most of them have been lost or have not been printed.

Johann Christian Hertel is the father of the composer Johann Wilhelm Hertel .

literature

Reinhard Diekow: Hertel (family). In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 8 (Gribenski - Hilverding). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1118-7 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Web links

Works by and about Johann Christian Hertel in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature about Johann Christian Hertel in the state bibliography MV
Foreword by Thomas Fritzsch to the trio sonata in G major for transverse flute, viola da gamba and basso continuo (PDF; 183 kB) Edition Güntersberg

Individual evidence

↑ The exact date of his death can not be proven for either Strelitz or Neustrelitz due to the lack of church records . The young residential town of Neustrelitz would be more plausible as the place of death, where the court and court chapel had their seat. Both Neustrelitz and the entire state part of Mecklenburg-Strelitz were often shortened to "Strelitz" in contemporary usage.
^ Horst Seeger : Musiklexikon Personen AZ / Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig (1981), page 335

personal data
SURNAME	Hertel, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German gambist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 25, 1697 or 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oettingen in Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH	October 1754
Place of death	Strelitz (city)

[1] The exact date of his death can not be proven for either Strelitz or Neustrelitz due to the lack of church records . The young residential town of Neustrelitz would be more plausible as the place of death, where the court and court chapel had their seat. Both Neustrelitz and the entire state part of Mecklenburg-Strelitz were often shortened to "Strelitz" in contemporary usage.

[2] Horst Seeger : Musiklexikon Personen AZ / Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig (1981), page 335