Johann Christoph Frauendorff

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Epitaph in Naumburg's Wenzelskirche with a portrait of Johann Christoph Frauendorff (above between angel and death) from 1707

Johann Christoph Frauendorff (also Frauendorf) ( October 1, 1664 in Naumburg (Saale) - October 22, 1740 in Dresden ) was a German librettist , lawyer and mayor of Naumburg.

Life

He was the son of the archdeacon of Naumburg Christoph Frauendorff († 1677) and his wife Johanna Susanna born. Berger. After studying law and theology in Leipzig and Strasbourg (1683–1685), which he completed with theological (1688, 1692, 1693) and legal disputations (1694), he became a member of the board of trustees in Wurzen in 1697 and between 1704 and 1718 he held a rotating position in every other year the mayor's office in Naumburg, after he was naturalized in Naumburg on August 10, 1698. At that time he was also active as court librettist and Saxon-Zeitzischer councilor in the service of the Dukes of Saxony-Zeitz , succeeding Heinrich Anselm von Ziegler and Kliphausen .

He wrote his first opera libretto for Georg Caspar Schürmann's opera Das bewöhrte Troja , which was performed in 1706 in the opera house on Hagenmarkt in Braunschweig . In 1706 he wrote the libretto for the opera Telemaque , performed at the opera house in front of the Salztor in Naumburg in the same year , for which Georg Caspar Schürmann also composed the music and Samuel Rudolph Behr (* 1670) contributed ballet parts. The opera was performed again in 1717 as Telemachus and Calypso, reworked at the Braunschweig Opera House, and was staged again in Bayreuth in 1722 . It is not clear whether he also directed the opera house in Naumburg.

In 1707 he put an epitaph with 4 portrait medallions in the Wenceslas Church , depicting himself, his father, his mother and an Anna Christina Schlaf (probably his first wife).

In 1708 he married Johanna Christiana Leyser (* 1686) and on November 1, 1709 his daughter Johanna Dorothea Frauendorf was born. In 1712, during the Naumburg period, he clashed with the then senior pastor Johann Martin Schamelius (1668–1742) on religious issues.

Frauendorf consulted the Italian Bernhardo Brentani and the Nuremberg Wilhelm Rössel to decorate the Marienkirche in Naumburg and paid a large part of their expenses themselves.

In 1718, since he lost his job with the dissolution of the Sachsen-Zeitz secondary school , he applied for further use in Naumburg Abbey. This was probably unsuccessful, as he is named as a bailiff in Torgau in 1725 .

From 1729 there is still an investigation against the former bailiff Dr. Johann Christoph Frauendorf in the Torgau office because of the existing deposits on him.

Works (selection)

Title page of the libretto for the opera “Telemaque”, Naumburg 1706
  • Laurus Liliis Convallium Et Hyacinthis Interstincta, Palladio Saxo-Eisenbergensi , Hoc Est ... Dn. Sophiae Mariae , Natae Landgrafiae Hassiae ... Elocatae Ducis Saxoniae ... Et Natali Eius Auspicatissimo Ipsis Nonis Maii, AOR MDCLXXXII ... dedicata , Halle , 1682.
  • Disp. mor. de moralitate voti Iephtae . Georgius, Leipzig, 1686.
  • Exercitatio acad. de divina maiestatis origine . Georgius, Leipzig, 1687.
  • De Epistola Christi Ad Agbarum, Speciatim contra Theologum Anglum, Guil. Cave . Georgius, Leipzig, 1693.
  • Diss. Inaug. de coacto fratris pro fratre testimonio . Meyerus, Altdorf, 1695.
  • The troubled Troy presented in a singing game / at the large Braunschweigisches Theatro. And the ... Mr. Anthon Ulrichen / Hertzüge zu Braunschw. and Lüneburg. Most submissively dedicated. Braunschweig, 1703.
  • Telemaque was Auff Hoch-Fürstl. Most gracious order in an opera on the Naumburg show-places in the Petri-Pauli mass in anno 1706 . Boßögel, Naumburg, 1706.
  • Swedish and Saxon State Cantzley, in which all those secret and other writings, which were exchanged between the two courts from the time the King in Sweden moved in Saxony to his departure, are to be found unadulterated. For a secret explanation of the state of the history and the state of Saxony at that time . Riegel, Nuremberg, 1708.
  • Thoughts of mourning and death about the blessed step of the noble, honorable and virtuous women, women Katharinen Elisabeth, born. Frentzelin Des Weyland well-noble, great-respectable and well-loved gentlemen, Mr. Friedrich Johanemanns Königl.-Pohln. and Chur-Fürstl. Saxon. well-merited school administrator and ambts tax collector to the Pforta, as well as E. Hoch-Edlen and Hoch-Weisen Raths zu Naumburg, Ober-Cämmerer's left wife Witben, accompanied as the same on July 15th, 1714. to your cities of rest was succeeded by distinguished patrons, friends and relatives . Brühl, Weißenfels , 1714.
  • Telemachus and Calypso: Presented in an opera at the great Braunschweigisches Theatro and the Laurentii fair in 1717 , Bartsch, Wolfenbüttel. 1717.
  • Telemachus and Calypso, was ... at the Carneval, which in d. 1722nd year was held at Christian-Erlang ..., in e. musical opera on d. large theater there presented subserviently . Lober, Bayreuth, 1722.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Seifert: Family tables of learned people . Zweyter Theil, Hofmann, Regensburg, 1723, no p.
  2. ^ Website about the history of Naumburg
  3. ↑ Frauendorff's naturalization entry in the Naumburger Bürgerbuch in 1698
  4. ^ Writings of the Society for Theater History . Volume 63, Verlag der Gesellschaft, Berlin, 1965, p. 106.
  5. ↑ Hanna Walsdorf, Marie-Thérèse Mourey, Tilden Russell (ed.): Taubert's "Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister" (Leipzig 1717) Frank & Timme, Berlin, 2019, p. 80.
  6. ↑ Christoph Schmitt-Maaß: Fénelons Télémaque in the German-speaking Enlightenment (1700-1832) . Volume I, De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2018, p. 219ff.
  7. ^ Writings of the Society for Theater History . Volume 63, Verlag der Gesellschaft, Berlin, 1965, p. 248.
  8. ↑ Website with mention of the epitaph
  9. ↑ oA: Thuringia and the Harz with their peculiarities, folk tales and legends . Sixth volume, Eupel, Sondershausen, 1842, p. 181.
  10. ^ Writings of the Society for Theater History . Volume 63, Verlag der Theatergesellschaft 1965 p. 248.
  11. ↑ Main State Archive Dresden (Saxony), holdings 10036 Financial Archive, February 47, 23.14. Office Torgau, Rep. A 25a I, I, No. 3235
personal data
SURNAME Frauendorff, Johann Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frauendorf, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librettist and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1664
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1740
Place of death Dresden