Johann Hinrich Rudolph Cario

Johann Hinrich Rudolph Cario (born February 26, 1737 , † December 22, 1813 in Hamburg ) was a musician and tower keeper .

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Johann Hinrich Rudolph Cario was a son of the musician Dominicus Johann Cario and his wife, who was probably called Rebecca. They initially lived in Eckernförde , where they had their son baptized on March 3, 1737 along with two other sons. The family moved to Hamburg around 1739. Dominicus Johann Cario became a citizen here on April 3, 1739. He acquired full Hamburg citizenship on June 30, 1752. In the Hanseatic city, his parents brought three daughters and two sons to be baptized.

Cario probably attended an elementary school in Hamburg. His father gave him his first music lessons. Possibly. He was also taught by the musician and tower keeper Peter Hinrich Krohn from St. Georg , who was his father's surety in 1739. According to a lexicon entry by Ernst Ludwig Gerber , he also received lessons from Georg Philipp Telemann . Gerber also wrote that Johann Gottlieb Schwencke and Philipp Emanuel Bach were among his teachers. Since both only moved to Hamburg when Cario was already 30 years of age, this is very unlikely. Hermann Fey adopted this information in a later entry.

On October 15, 1762, Cario married Anna Ilsabe Meyer (* 1738 in Hamburg; † 1799 ibid.), Whose father worked as a bailiff at the Katharinenkirche . The couple had four daughters and two sons, including the music director Johann Peter Hinrich (* December 21, 1768 in Hamburg; † December 21, 1768 there). According to Hermann Fey, Cario had another son named Heinrich Rudolph, who is said to have succeeded him in office later.

As the successor to von Haack , Cario worked as the tower keeper of the Sankt Katharinenkirche. According to the Michaelis records, he received his first pay in 1763. On August 12, 1768 he was elected to Ratsmusici; a post that was considered highly regarded. His father-in-law's status may have had an impact on this choice. Cario lived in an official apartment at the Catharinenkirchhof, where he died at the end of 1813.

Ernst Ludwig Gerber got to know Cario personally and visited him in his doorman's room. He described Cario as "one of the greatest trumpet artists". Cario's own works are not documented.

literature

• Karl-Egbert Schultze: Cario, Johann Hinrich Rudolph . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, pp. 70-71

References and comments

1. ↑ see: New historical-biographical lexicon of the Tonkünstler, which provides news of the life and works of musical writers, famous composers, singers, masters of instruments, artful amateurs, music publishers, also organ and instrument makers, older and more recent times, from all nations contains . Leipzig 1812. Column 642.