Johann Ernst IV. (Saxe-Weimar)

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Johann Ernst IV. (* December 25, 1696 in Weimar ; † August 1, 1715 in Frankfurt am Main ), from the Ernestine line of the House of Wettin , was Duke of Saxe-Weimar and composer .

Life

Cover of the Six Concerts

Johann Ernst IV. Was the youngest son of Duke Johann Ernst III. von Sachsen-Weimar (1664–1707) from his second marriage to Charlotte (1672–1738), daughter of Landgrave Friedrich II. von Hessen-Homburg .

After the death of his father in 1707, the 10-year-old, together with his older half-brother Ernst August , nominally became Duke of Saxony-Weimar. The brothers were under the reign of their uncle, Duke Wilhelm Ernst . Johann Ernst studied at the University of Utrecht and was sent on a cavalier tour in 1713 . Here a lump formed on the leg, possibly a metastatic sarcoma , which, despite intensive care for his mother and spa stays in Schwalbach and Frankfurt, spread to the abdominal area. The Duke only passed away at the age of 18 and was not buried in Weimar but in the crypt of Bad Homburg Castle .

Johann Ernst was extremely talented musically. In his early youth he was trained by the Weimar court musician Eilenstein and composed about 19 concerts. He had an influence on Johann Sebastian Bach's Weimar period . Around 1713-14, Bach arranged three of the Prince's instrumental concertos for solo harpsichord : BWV 982 in B flat major, BWV 984 in C major and BWV 987 in D minor; Concerto No. 13 in C major BWV 984, was composed after Prince Johann Ernst's Violin Concerto op. 1 No. 4. After Johann Ernst's death, Georg Philipp Telemann published his concerts.

literature

  • Johann Samuel Publication : Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , Leipzig 1842, II./21., P. 260 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  • Jeanne Swack: Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar as client. Remarks on the style of the 'Six Sonates à Violon seul' (1715) by Georg Philipp Telemann. In: Wolf Hobohm (ed.): Telemanns commissioned and occasional works. Function, value and meaning . Ziethen, Oschersleben 1997, ISBN 3-932090-14-4 , pp. 53-70.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Sandberger: The Bach picture by Philipp Spittas . Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07008-7 , p. 193.
  2. ↑ http://www.klassika.info/Komponisten/Bach/Arrangement/BWV_0984/index.html
  3. ^ Violin Concerto in C major (Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
personal data
SURNAME Johann Ernst IV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Saxe-Weimar and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1715
Place of death Frankfurt am Main