Johann Christian Lobe

Johann Christian Lobe 1863

Johann Christian Lobe (born May 30, 1797 in Weimar ; † July 27, 1881 in Leipzig ) was a German composer and music theorist .

Life

Lobe grew up in Weimar and learned to play the violin autodidactically . From 1804 to 1811 he attended the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium Weimar . From 1810 he played the violin at a church in Weimar and in 1821 completed his first composition, the opera Wittekind . In the following years Lobe composed further operas, including a. The Flibustier (1830) and The Princess of Granada (1833) as well as some orchestral pieces. In 1842 he was appointed professor in Weimar, but in 1846 he moved to Leipzig, where he worked as a music critic and composition teacher. His best known writing is the textbook of musical composition , which was written between 1850 and 1867.

Works (selection)

Textbook of musical composition (1850–1867)
Musical letters. Truth about Tonkunst and Tonkunstler. From a well-known person . Baumgärtner, Leipzig 1852 ( digitized version )
Catechism of Music (1853-1857)
Flying sheets for music (1853-1857)
From the life of a musician . JJ Weber, Leipzig 1859 ( digitized version )
Simplified theory of harmony (1861)
A quartet with Goethe . In: The Gazebo . Issue 1, 1867, pp. 4–8 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
Consonances and dissonances (1869)
Catechism of Composition (1882)

literature

Robert Eitner: Praise, Johann Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 24-29.
Rudolf Stephan: Praise, Johann Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 727 ( digitized version ).
Praise, Johann Christian . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 857–858.

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Christian Lobe - Sources and full texts

Commons : Johann Christian Lobe - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Johann Christian Lobe in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Johann Christian Lobe in the German Digital Library

personal data
SURNAME	Praise, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer and music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weimar
DATE OF DEATH	July 27, 1881
Place of death	Leipzig