Johann Friedrich La Trobe
Johann Friedrich Bonneval de La Trobe (born May 30, 1769 in Chelsea , England , † December 19, 1845 in Dorpat , Livonia ) was a Baltic German composer of Huguenot descent.
Life
Johann Friedrich La Trobe came from a provonçal Huguenot family La Trobe . When his father died, he moved to Germany at a young age. He learned music at the school of the Moravian Brethren in Niesky near Görlitz and from 1787 to 1790 at the Moravian Seminary in Barby on the Elbe . He then studied medicine at the University of Jena , where he passed his exam in 1795.
From 1793 La Trobe was active in the Baltic States : as a private tutor, doctor, church mayor, judge, estate manager and organist. Stations included Heimtali , Põltsamaa , Võisiku and Pilistvere . From 1829 he lived in the Livonian village of Dorpat, where he was heavily involved in the musical life of the university town. There he founded various music and song associations and, in 1835, the singing academy.
In 1820 Johann Friedrich La Trobe married Alwine Marie von Stackelberg (1797–1871), who was born in Braunschweig , on Poll . Their daughter Sophie (1821–1890) married the Baltic German lawyer, publicist and composer Woldemar von Bock (1816–1903).
Works
Posterity has retained La Trobe primarily as a composer. About 200 works come from his pen, including his German songs (4 volumes, 1826–1846), an Agnus Dei (1829) and the Stabat Mater for six-part choir (1830), which Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy published in 1847 by Breitkopf & Härtel . In addition, there were several violin sonatas, twelve piano variations and three divertimenti .
literature
- Woldemar von Bock, sheets of memory of J. Fr. La Trobe, the artist and the people , in: Inland , No. 10, 13, 21 (1848)
- Avo Hirvesoo, Johann Friedrich Bonneval de La Trobe. Põlvnemisi. Date oath. Fact , in: Teater. Muusika. Kino , vol. 12 (1995)
- Helmut Scheunchen: Lexicon of German Baltic Music. Harro von Hirschheydt publishing house, Wedemark-Elze 2002. ISBN 3-7777-0730-9 . Pp. 144-149.
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Johann Friedrich La Trobe. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- La Trobe, Johann Friedrich de . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
- Audio samples organ works (organist: Martin Rost )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 225
- ↑ Baroness Alwine Marie von Stackelberg (Genealogical page of the La Trobe family, English, viewed January 30, 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | La Trobe, Johann Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | La Trobe, Johann Friedrich Bonneval de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1769 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chelsea (London) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1845 |
| Place of death | Tartu , Livonia |