Johann Georg Witthauer (composer)

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Johann Georg Witthauer (born August 19, 1750 in Neustadt an der Haide, today Neustadt bei Coburg , † March 7, 1802 in Lübeck ) was a German music teacher , composer and church musician.

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Witthauer first became a student of Jakob Adlung in Erfurt , then of Georg Simon Löhlein in Leipzig . He worked as a piano master and teacher at the ducal court in Mitau with Duchess Dorothea von Kurland and her sister Elisa von der Recke . For further studies he came to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Hamburg . After a time as a private teacher in Berlin in the early 1790s, he was appointed organist and foreman of the Jakobikirche in Lübeck in 1797 , where he remained until his untimely death. Christian Adolph Overbeck wrote his grave inscription .

He was married to Catharina Maria, geb. Limpricht. The later forest inspector of the same name Johann Georg Witthauer (1799–1876) and the editor and publisher Friedrich Witthauer (1793–1846) were their sons. Of the daughters, the eldest, Maria Dorothea Charlotte (1786–1825), who grew up with Elisa von der Recke after her father's death , married Christian August Heinrich Clodius in Berlin in 1811 ; Anna Elise († 1875) married Wilhelm Crusius .

Works

  • 6 sonatas for piano. Hamburg 1783
  • Collection of mixed piano and singing pieces. 4 parts Hamburg 1786
  • 6 sonatas for piano. Hamburg 1788
  • 6 piano sonatas for lovers and aspiring piano players. Collection 1 and 2. Berlin 1792 and 1793

In 1791 Witthauer published the fifth, revised edition of his teacher Löhlein's much used piano school:

  • Georg Simon Löhlein's piano school, or brief instructions on how to play the piano and the figured bass: with practical examples. Jena: NS Fromann's heirs 1791

Autographs of songs and chants for a voice and pianoforte are kept in the Lübeck city ​​library .

literature

  • Johann Hennings: Lübeck's music history I: The secular music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1951, p. 287
  • Wilhelm steel: music history of Lübeck. Volume II: Sacred Music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1952, p. 114
  • Georg Karstädt: Witthauer, Johann Georg , in: Music in Past and Present Volume 14 (1968), Col. 747-748
  • Ellwood Derr: Witthauer, Johann Georg. In: Grove Music Online , accessed December 5, 2011

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Individual evidence

  1. The indication of the year of his birth varies between 1750 (GND; Hennings, p. 287) and 1751 (MGG; Stahl, p. 114). Grove Online lists August 21, 1751 as the date of birth.
  2. ^ Printed in Hennings (Lit.), p. 287
  3. See also Oskar Planer, Camillo Reissmann: Johann Gottfried Seume. Leipzig: Göschen 1898, p. 657