Johann Daniel Zacharias Burjam
Johann Daniel Zacharias Burjam (born August 4, 1802 in Lübeck , † March 22, 1879 ibid) was a German violinist and church musician.
Life
Burjam was a son of the bell ringer of the Lübeck Katharinenkirche Andreas Matthias Burjam (1774-1832) and his wife Ann Elisabeth, née Zell (1768-1858). He received his first lessons in violin, viola, flute and piano from the council musician Heinrich Bartelmann (1773-1858). A circle of music lovers around Senator Röttger Ganslandt enabled him to go to Ludwigslust in 1824 through a scholarship and study there with Louis Massonneau and Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz (1788-1854). From 1825 he worked as concertmaster and conductor of the lovers' concerts led by Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw and from 1832 by Ganslandt . In 1834 he was appointed city musician. As a violist he played in the well-known quartet of Gottfried Herrmann . In 1839 he was part of the orchestra as a violinist at the First North German Music Festival in Lübeck. From 1850 to 1852 he was interim conductor of the Lübeck symphony concerts.
From 1847 until his death he was organist at the Petrikirche in Lübeck . In addition, he worked as concertmaster until 1870. His assistant (from 1878) and successor at St. Petri was Karl Lichtwark . He was also a member of the Lübeck Masonic Lodge Zur Weltkugel .
Since 1829 he was married to Amalie Pauline Luise, born in Reinfeld . Holst. The couple had two sons and a daughter: Luise (Lucie, * 1837) became a composer; Alfred (1847–1907) also musician and organist at the Hamburg main church St. Michaelis ; Wilhelm (1842–1914) became a banker and director of the Nordic Actienbank for Trade and Industry ( Pohjoismaiden Yhdyspankki ) in Vyborg, Finland . The Finnish opera singer Mally Burjam-Borga (1874-1919) was his daughter.
Works
Various of his compositions are preserved in the Lübeck city library .
- 3 waltzes ( copy in the Danish National Library, Copenhagen )
literature
- Carl Stiehl : Lübeckisches Tonkünstlerlexikon. Leipzig: Hesse 1887 ( digitized version ), p. 4
- Johann Hennings: Lübeck's music history I: The secular music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1951, p. 87
- Wilhelm steel: music history of Lübeck. Volume II: Sacred Music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1952, p. 144
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Stahl : Gottfried Herrmann. Leipzig 1939, p. 20
- ↑ August Gathy (ed.): Memories of the first North German Music Festival in Lübeck. Hamburg: Niemeyer 1840, p. 106
- ↑ portrait photo
- ^ Lübeck musicians , Lübeck City Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burjam, Johann Daniel Zacharias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist and church musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1879 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |