Johann Georg Linike

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Johann Georg Linike , also Linecke, Linicke, Linigke, Lienigke, Lünicke, Lünecke (* around 1680, † April 7, 1762 in Neustrelitz ) was a German composer , violinist and conductor .

Life

Johann Georg Linike came from a family of musicians. From 1696 he was a member of the electoral chapel in Berlin , where he occasionally received composition lessons from Johann Theile . In 1705 he conducted the funeral music for the late first Queen in Prussia, Sophie Charlotte . When the band was closed in 1713, he found a job as concertmaster at the court of Saxe-Weimar. The Köthener court files show Linike as concertmaster of the court there between 1718 and 1721, in contrast to the letters sent to Johann Mattheson between 1718 and 1720 , which name him as concertmaster of the Duke of Sachsen-Merseburg. It is possible that Linike helped out from Merseburg during this period in the Köthener court orchestra, directed by Johann Sebastian Bach , in which Linike's brother Christian Bernhard Linike (1673–1751) worked as a cellist. After living in England between 1722 and 1725, Linike became first violinist and deputy director of the Hamburg Opera am Gänsemarkt under Reinhard Keizer . In 1725 and 1726 he took part in performances of Georg Friedrich Handel's operas under the direction of Georg Philipp Telemann . In Hamburg Linike composed some festival music and arranged Italian-language operas.

In August 1728 he became ducal band director in Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Here he led the band consisting of at least 14 musicians, and was also responsible for building a music library. In 1742 Johann Christian Hertel took over the leadership of the chapel and Linike became court piano player . In 1752 the chapel was closed and it was not until 1761 that he received a salary as well as information money of 200 Reichstalers. Johann Mattheson, who already knew Linike before his time in Hamburg, not only praised his "strange skill" on the violin in 1725, he also described him as a skilful composer who was "well acquainted at most of the German courts where chapels are" . In return, Linike translated and wrote for Mattheson's Critica Musica from 1722 the summary of the "life and death of the world-famous Jean Baptiste de Lully ".

Among his students were the children of the "Mirow Duke" Karl (Ludwig Friedrich) , including the later Queen of England (Sophie) Charlotte . A son of Linike worked temporarily as a temporary worker in the court orchestra. '

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Linike is possibly the composer of the oboe concerto in B flat major ( HWV 301, now HWV Anh B 327), which, according to the analysis of the musicologist David R. Humphrey, was composed of several stylistic elements uncharacteristic of Handel, missing thirds in chords and an incorrect handling of dissonance having. An unnoticed handwritten copy of the work has also been found in the Uppsala University Library that identifies Sr Linike as a composer. Several contemporary copies of Linike's works are kept in the so-called sheet music collection Schranck No: II , compiled by Johann Georg Pisendel in the 18th century , in the Saxon State Library.

Works (selection)

Orchestral works

  • Mortorium à 5 (sonata) , for trumpet (con sordino), oboe, transverse flute, violin and basso continuo
  • Concert in F major , for 2 oboes, violin, strings and basso continuo
  • Concert in G major , for 2 oboes, violin, strings and basso continuo
  • Concert in G major , for recorder, strings and basso continuo
  • Concert in G major , for 2 transverse flutes and basso continuo
  • Concerto à 5 , for 2 violins, viola, oboe and harpsichord
  • Overture of 7 , for 2 oboes, 2 violins, viola, cello and harpsichord

Chamber music

  • Concerto , for violin and harpsichord
  • Sonata , for transverse flute, bassoon (or cello), viola da gamba and basso continuo
  • Sonata , for transverse flute, violin and basso continuo
  • Sonata , for transverse flute (or violin) and basso continuo
  • Sonata in F major , for soprano recorder (oboe or violin) and basso continuo
  • Sonata à 3 in G major , for treble recorder (oboe), bassoon and basso continuo
  • Suite , for 2 recorders and basso continuo
  • Trio , for transverse flute, oboe and basso continuo
  • Trios , for transverse flute, violin and basso continuo
  • Trio Sonata in C major , for oboe, violin and basso continuo

Web links

Discography

  • Johann Georg Linike, Mortorium - chamber music and concertos for wind instruments. Concert Royal Cologne , Label: Musicaphon, 2015

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  1. ^ Johann Mattheson: Critica Musica 1722
  2. ↑ Frauke Rauterberg: Curriculum vitae in the preface to a sonata edition (2006)
  3. ^ Ekkehard Krüger:  Johann Georg Linike. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 11 (Lesage - Menuhin). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7 , Sp. 169–171 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  4. ^ Hans Joachim Marx and Wolfgang Sandberger: in Göttinger Handel contributions 2012, pp. 195–197
personal data
SURNAME Linike, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linecke, Johann Georg; Linicke, Johann Georg; Linigke, Johann Georg; Lienigke, Johann Georg; Lünicke, Johann Georg; Lünecke, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist, conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1680
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1762
Place of death Neustrelitz