Johann Gottfried Vogler

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Text sheet of the opera Ulysses by Johann Gottfried Vogler, Hamburg 1721

Johann Gottfried Vogler (* 1691 in Dresden ; † after 1733 ) was a German composer , cantor , organist and violinist .

Life

Vogler probably received his musical training in Dresden . He was born on January 11, 1716 for the late Melchior Hoffmann as cantor and organist for the Leipzig Neukirche ordered. With this position he also took over the position of director of the Collegium Musicum founded by Georg Philipp Telemann . Telemann said he was a lively composer and a strong violinist . On March 26, 1717, Telemann's Brockes Passion was performed for the first time in Leipzig under his direction in the Neukirche.

From 1718 he headed the second ordinaire Collegium musicum , founded by Johann Friedrich Fasch in 1708 , after he had handed over the management of the Telemann College to Georg Balthasar Schott .

Also in 1718, Vogler met Johann Sebastian Bach on a visit to Köthen and made music under his direction. In April 1719 and February 1725 he made another guest appearance in Köthen.

In 1716, together with Dorothea Maria Brauns (née Strungk), who had inherited the opera privilege from her father Nicolaus Adam Strungk , he also took over the management of the Brühl Opera House in Leipzig. He wrote several operas for the opera house. However, he fled Leipzig during the Michaelmas fair in 1719 because of guilt . It is also said that he stole instruments from the New Church. His contract in the New Church was therefore canceled on May 5, 1720, and the composer Johann Samuel Endler took his place on an interim basis.

After his escape from Leipzig he can be traced back to Hamburg in 1720, where he probably had the scores he had taken with him from Leipzig, which he reworked, performed in the local opera on Gänsemarkt (Melchior Hoffmann's opera Rhea Sylvia and a revision of his opera Penelope under the title Ulysses ) .

In September 1721 he made a brief stop at the court of Greiz . From 1722 he moved to Würzburg as a violinist in the court orchestra there. In April 1725 he came (probably through Endler's mediation) as a violinist in the court orchestra in Darmstadt , presumably as the successor to Alessandro Toeschi . From the promised 500 florins salary he was allowed to draw 125 florins from October 1 “next year”, ie 1724. The last note about him comes from the Hofmarschallamt in Darmstadt, which on August 1st, 1733 announces the clearance of our Cammer Musicus Vogler .

plant

  • Artaxerxes (Opera, Leipzig, 1717)
  • Penelope (Opera, Leipzig, 1717; revised 1721 in Hamburg as Ulysses )
  • The satisfied Damira (Opera, Leipzig, 1717)

literature

  • Michael Maul: Baroque Opera in Leipzig (1693–1720). Rombach, Freiburg, 2009, p. 308ff.
  • Andreas Glöckner: The music maintenance at the Leipzig New Church in the time of Johann Sebastian Bach. in contributions to Bach research 8. National research and memorial sites Johann Sebastian Bach of the GDR, Leipzig, 1990, p. 77f and p. 297f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philipp Spitta: Johann Sebastian Bach: The greatest composer in music history: Life and Work , e-artnow, 2014, o. P.
  2. ^ Georg Philipp Telemann: Brockes Passion, TWV 5: 1. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  3. ^ Rüdiger Pfeiffer: Johann Friedrich Fasch, 1688-1758: Leben und Werk , Noetzel, Wilhelmshafen, 1994, p. 30.
  4. ↑ Samantha Owens, Barbara M. Reul, Janice B. Stockigt (Eds.): Music at German Courts, 1715-1760: Changing Artistic Priorities , The boydell press, Woodbridge, 2015, p. 309.
  5. ↑ Elisabeth Noack: Darmstadt's Music History from the Middle Ages to the Age of Goethe , Part 1, Schott, Mainz, 1967, p. 211ff.
personal data
SURNAME Vogler, Johann Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, cantor, organist and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1691
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH after 1733