Johann Georg Hermann Voigt

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Johann Georg Hermann Voigt (born May 14, 1769 in Osterwieck ; † February 24, 1811 in Leipzig ) was a German organist , cellist , violist and composer .

Life

Johann Georg Hermann Voigt was the son of the town musician CC Voigt from the town of Osterwieck in the northern Harz foreland. At the age of seven he went to his maternal grandfather, the town musician JG Rose in Quedlinburg , in 1776 , who gave him private piano and violin lessons until 1780. The death of his father and grandfather forced Voigt to look for other ways of musical education, and his stepfather also supported him.

In 1785 Voigt found a job as a violinist at the Great Concert, the later Gewandhaus Orchestra , in the trade fair city of Leipzig. In 1788 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig . From 1789 he was also active in the field of church music.

In 1790 he accepted an offer as organist at the Moritzburg in Zeitz , where he did not find the artistic satisfaction hoped for as an artist in the end of the small town and suffered from a lack of recognition. After a relatively short time he quit his job as Zeitz palace organist and returned to Leipzig.

In 1801 he was accepted into the orchestra pension fund in Leipzig. He was violinist, violist and cellist in concerts and from 1801 to 1803 he was the first violin player, later first cellist and first violist. In the same year he went to the Petrikirche in Leipzig as a substitute for the organist Adolf Heinrich Müller , and in 1802 he changed to the Thomas organist in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig.

In 1808/1809 he was the first violist alongside Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer , Bartolomeo Campagnoli and Heinrich August Matthäi, one of the four co-founders of the Gewandhaus Quartet . His son Carl Ludwig Voigt followed in his father's footsteps and also learned to play the cello.

plant

Johann Georg Hermann Voigt composed twelve minuets for orchestra, seven quartets and three piano sonatas . The viola concerto opus 11 is one of his most famous works .

literature

  • Carl Ferdinand Becker: The Tonkünstler of the nineteenth century. A calendar manual on art history. Leipzig 1849, p. 25.
  • The one hundred and fifty-year history of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Concerts 1743–1893. Leipzig 1893, p. 54.
  • Hans-Rainer Jung: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. With contributions on cultural and contemporary history by Claudius Böhm , Faber and Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 45.
  • Martin Petzoldt : Die Thomasorganisten zu Leipzig , in: Christian Wolff (Hrsg.): Die Orgeln der Thomaskirche zu Leipzig , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2012, p. 95-137 (p. 111 f.), ISBN 3-374-02300- 2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Kneschke : On the history of the theater and music in Leipzig. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1864, pp. 229–230.
  2. ^ German biography: Matthaei, Heinrich August - German biography. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Johann Georg Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, cellist, violist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterwieck
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1811
Place of death Leipzig