Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers

Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers (born January 26, 1742 in Oegle near Hanover , † June 28, 1806 in Magdeburg ) was a German organist and composer .

From 1771 to 1776 Sievers was organist at the Andreaskirche in Braunschweig . On September 22, 1776 he was appointed Magdeburg Cathedral Organist .

From 1780 Sievers held its own public concert series in the “Red Hall” of the “Our Dear Women” monastery in Magdeburg , in which Magdeburg music lovers, and occasionally also foreign virtuosos, played. As a composer, he went public with chamber and church music.

His piano sonatas op. 1 were mentioned in Cramer's Magazin der Musik because of their brilliance and modernity. Siever's successor at the cathedral was the former cathedral choir and prefect of the cathedral choir, Johann Karl Heinrich Banck .

One of his eleven children was the publicist and music aesthet Georg Ludwig Peter Sievers .

Works

• Songs for voice and piano , e.g. B. Odes and songs from the story of Siegwart , 1779
• Trois Sonates pour le Clavecin op.1 , 1782
• Symphony for piano, two violins, two flutes, two horns (not preserved)

literature

• Carl Friedrich Cramer: Magazin der Musik 1, 1783, 479
• Ernst Ludwig Gerber: Historical-biographical lexicon of the Tonkünstler , Part 2
• Wolf Hobohm : Music history of the city of Magdeburg. A timetable , 1992
• Christoph E. Hänggi: Georg Ludwig Peter S. (1775-1830) and his writings , 1993, 27ff.