Johann Fischer (composer)

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Johann Fischer in the Johann Christoph Brotze Collection

Johann Fischer (born September 25, 1646 in Augsburg , † 1716 or 1717 in Schwedt / Oder ) was a German violinist and composer of the Baroque era .

Life

Johann Fischer was born as the son of the Augsburg town piper Jonas Fischer. He had music lessons from his father and from the Protestant cantor Tobias Kriegsdorfer (1608–1686). From 1661 to 1664 he was a student of Samuel Capricornus , the conductor at the Württemberg court in Stuttgart, after his death Fischer worked for five years in Paris as one of Lully's music writers and copyists and thus got to know his style. In 1673 he was back in the Stuttgart court orchestra, and a year later he settled in Augsburg as a church musician. Around 60 church music works were created during his time in Augsburg.

In 1683 Fischer was employed as a violinist, teacher and composer in the court orchestra of the Duke of Ansbach for three years . From 1690 to 1697 he had a similar job in Mitau (today Jelgava in Latvia) with Duke Friedrich Casimir of Courland . After the band was closed, he lived in Riga for a while. In the late 1690s, Fischer developed a busy travel activity that took him across Europe. In 1700 he had a job in Lüneburg, in 1701 he made music in Poland "in front of Ihro Maj. The King of Poland to the great satisfaction ", in 1702 he was concertmaster in the court orchestra of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . In 1704 he made a disappointing trip to Copenhagen, where he had hoped for a job in the royal court orchestra. From 1707 Fischer worked in Bayreuth, then he lived in Stralsund, Stockholm and Stettin. In the last years of his life he was Kapellmeister to Margrave Philipp Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt . According to Johann Mattheson , Johann Fischer died at the age of seventy.

effect

Like Johann Sigismund Kusser, Johann Fischer was one of those musicians who cultivated and spread the French style of Jean-Baptiste Lully , the so-called Lullists . His traditional chamber music suggests this. Fischer's melodies are original and original, his harmonies and rhythms varied. In Fischer's works the scordature is often required, also for the viola, for example in “ Das Eins-Drey und Drey-Eins or the habile violist ” (viola tuning: cg-d'-g '). Fischer's extensive church music work, consisting of numerous cantatas and motets, has been little researched. Mattheson writes that Fischer's music was highly praised and played frequently.

Works (selection)

  • Musical Mayen-Lust , a 7 (Augsburg, 1681)
  • Heavenly lust for a violin and accompaniment (Nürenberg, 1686)
  • Balettae a 4 ( ca.1690 ). Inscription on the title page. “Compositæ in Melancholia Authoris, apud enim solatium quærentis, ex Vratislavia ad Neöburg cum Epum Vratsilaviensem pergentis. Johann Fischer ”, that is,“ composed in the melancholy of the author, who was looking for consolation in the process, on the journey from Breslau to Klosterneuburg with the Bishop of Wroclaw. Johann Fischer ".
  • Musical divertissement , a 2 (Dresden, 1699)
  • Newly made musical divertissement , a 4 (Augsburg, 1700)
  • Tafelmusik , a 3, 4 (Hamburg, 1702)
  • Musical princes lust…. , a 4 (Augsburg, 1706)
  • Field and hero music (Augsburg, 1706)
  • The motet "So I wish some good night" (Augsburg, 1681) (authorship unsecured)
  • "Musical composition about the world soothed Luneburger Sultze" (Overture - Entree: Worrinen the beat from which Sulzlers is hinted - Aria: Ballet: Inside the train from which Sodes Companen is tracted - Aria: Ballet: So the boiling and boiling water indicates - Menuet: Aria: About the world-famous Luneburg Sultze)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Fischer . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
  2. ^ Charles E. Brewer: The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat and their Contemporaries , Farnham / GB 2011 page 142
  3. ↑ Sultze = salt works
  4. ^ Johann Fischer (1646 – c.1716) - Parnassus germanicus - Prospero - Forum for Early Music , cf. also the CD Scherzi musicali of the Berliner Barock-Compagney, Label Capriccio 1999 No. 10502
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer of the baroque
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1646
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 1716 or 1717
Place of death Schwedt / Oder