Johann Gottfried Schuncke
Johann Gottfried Schuncke II. (* 1777 in Schkortleben , † 1861 in Tübingen ) was a German horn player at the Stuttgart court.
Live and act
The first-born son of the Schkortleben master baker and hobby musician Johann Gottfried Schuncke already received basic musical lessons from his father. He began his professional musical training in 1794 in Halle (Saale) at the Stadtmusikus Wansleben. There he met Daniel Gottlob Türk , who was then Halle music director , who was enthusiastic about the fact that apart from the French horn, he also mastered almost all other instruments.
From 1798 he worked in Magdeburg , then in Berlin , where he was promoted and trained by the well-known horn player Jean Lebrun. After a job in Kassel he moved to Stuttgart , where he worked as a musician for 35 years until his retirement in 1850.
Like many of his family members, he was considered an extraordinarily talented horn player and was one of the leading horn virtuosos of the 19th century. With his brother Michael Schuncke (1778-1821) he performed very successfully in horn duets, and traveled with him in 1807 and 1814 to Paris and London .
Gottfried Schuncke was also the composer of some works for horn, but not all of them have survived. His variations for 2 horns are still played today because they give two horn players the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, especially when they play the natural horn. Schuncke found his final resting place in the Tübingen city cemetery .
Works
- Variations on an old German song for 2 French horns with orchestra accompaniment composed and reverently dedicated to Prince August von Hohenlohe-Oehringen by Gottfried Schuncke.
- Exercice for horn and piano, Leipzig 2001, Robert Ostermeyer music edition.
literature
- Joachim Draheim: Johann Gottfried Schuncke . In: Ludwig Finscher (Ed.): MGG . tape 15 . Bärenreiter Verlag, 2006, Sp. 340-341 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Draheim: The Schuncke family of musicians and their work in southwest Germany: "... a remarkable family in the music world" . In: Tonkünstlerverband Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Tonkünstler-forum (TKF) . tape 57 , December 2008, p. 2–7 ( PDF (pp. 4–9) ; 10.5 MB).
- ↑ The Schunckes: "A strange family in the music world" from the baroque to the present
- ^ Johann Gottfried Schuncke (1777–1861): Variations in F major for 2 horns and orchestra
- ↑ Historic family grave Tübingen under monument protection
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schuncke, Johann Gottfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schuncke, Johann Gottfried II. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German horn player at the Stuttgart court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1777 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schkortleben |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1861 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |