Johann George Tromlitz
Johann George Tromlitz (born November 8, 1725 in Reinsdorf , † February 4, 1805 in Leipzig ) was a German flautist , flute maker and composer .
Life
Born in Reinsdorf, Thuringia, the son of a grenadier , Johann George Tromlitz first attended school in Gera , married in 1747 and studied from 1750 at the law faculty of the University of Leipzig . He finished his studies with the title of Notarius Publicus Caesareus (imperial notary). Nothing is known about his musical training, which presumably began late, but in 1754 he joined the Leipzig Great Concerto (a forerunner of the Gewandhaus Orchestra ) as a solo flutist ; Concert tours took him as a soloist to Saint Petersburg in the following years . In 1776 he retired from public life. Johann George Tromlitz was a great-grandfather of the pianist and composer Clara Schumann .
Flute maker, composer and teacher
Dissatisfied with the tonal and intonational problems of the single- flute transverse flute , Tromlitz had been involved in flute construction since his student days, and later operated it commercially, and expanded the Quantz flute model to include additional keys . At the end of his 40 years of activity there was (among other models) a flute with 8 keys, which can be considered a preliminary stage of the transverse flute models developed by Theobald Böhm . Of Tromlitz's instruments, which he offered at (then high) prices between 6 and 40 ducats, only 6 are now in private hands and museums. The poet Eduard Mörike also owned a Tromlitz flute.
Tromlitz, also active as a flute teacher, was also the author of several didactic writings. In 1791 the textbook Detailed and thorough instruction on how to play the flute was published .
As a composer (including several partitas for flute solo, flute concertos and sonatas for flute and piano) Tromlitz succeeds Quantz and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach .
Individual evidence
- ^ András Adorján, Lenz Meierott (Ed.): Lexikon der Flöte , Laaber-Verl., Laaber 2009, p. 789, ISBN 978-3-89007-545-7
literature
- Friedrich Blume (Ed.): Music in the past and present . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1949–1986.
- Robert Eitner : Tromlitz, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 639 f.
- A. Goldberg: Portraits and biographies of outstanding flute virtuosos, dilettantes and composers . Berlin 1906, Moeck, Celle 1987 (reprint). ISBN 3-87549-028-2
- U. Pešek, Ž. Pešek: flute music from three centuries . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1990. ISBN 3-7618-0985-9
Web links
- Works by and about Johann George Tromlitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Johann George Tromlitz in the International Music Score Library Project
- Portrait on the 200th anniversary of Gabriele Busch-Salmen's death, in DIE TONKUNST online, issue 0601, January 1, 2006 (PDF file; 146 kB)
- Life and Work (Engl.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tromlitz, Johann George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German flautist, flute maker and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1725 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reinsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1805 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |