Johann Hugo von Wilderer

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Johann Hugo von Wilderer (* 1670 or 1671 in Bavaria ; † June 1724 in Mannheim , buried on June 7th ) was a German baroque composer .

life and work

Poacher was a pupil of Giovanni Lenzei in Venice . Presumably he was already employed as an organist at the Electoral Palatinate court in Düsseldorf in 1687 . A document from October 1, 1692 testifies to his activity as court organist at the former court church of St. Andreas . He held this office until 1697. He was named Vice Kapellmeister during his organist activity in April 1696 on the occasion of his first opera Giocasta . He held this title until 1702. From 1703 he appears as court conductor ; Carlo Luigi Pietragrua is recorded as his representative . In addition, Poacher was appointed court chamber councilor in 1699 and ennobled in 1704 or 1705 by his elector, the Palatinate-Neuburger Johann Wilhelm . Nine children were born from his marriage to Maria Dahmen.

Poacher probably met Georg Friedrich Handel during his visits to the Düsseldorf court in 1710 and 1711. Georg Andreas Kraft (1660–1726), who was a friend of Wilderer, wrote the ballet music for several of Wilderer's operas . A highlight in Wilderer's life was Charles VI's coronation as emperor . at Frankfurt am Main in 1711. Here the composer worked with the entire 53-member Düsseldorf court orchestra. After the death of Elector Johann Wilhelm on June 8, 1716, the court orchestra was initially closed by his brother, the new Elector Karl Philipp , who had previously resided in Innsbruck . After a large number of the musicians were soon reinstated, in 1718 he united the Düsseldorf court orchestra with the Innsbruck court orchestra in Heidelberg, led by Jakob Greber , and moved his residence to Mannheim in 1720 .

Wilderer wrote eleven operas, most of which were premiered in Düsseldorf, two oratorios , four cantatas and some sacred works . In musical history, Wilderer is mentioned in connection with Johann Sebastian Bach , because Bach copied a Missa brevis ( Kyrie and Gloria in G minor) by Wilderer, which for a time was mistakenly mistaken for a work by Bach. A study by Christoph Wolff on Wilderer's Mass has recorded similarities between this Mass and Kyrie von Bach's Mass in B minor . Konrad Küster , on the other hand, argued that Wolff's presumption that Bach was oriented towards poachers was lacking in the basis of the unmistakable differences. During the time of the supremacy of the Italians and the French, Poacher achieved outstanding importance as a German musician. Alongside Jakob Greber, he was the first court conductor of the orchestra, which later developed into the famous Mannheim School Orchestra .

Works

  • Il Giorno di Salute or Demetrio in Athene: Drama par musica da rappresentarsi nei Giorni di Carnevale dell'anno 1697 per comando del Serenissimo Elettore palatino , composer: Johann Hugo Wilderer, libretto: Freiherr von Demantstein, electoral chamberlain. - Print: Johann Christian Schleuter, Düsseldorf.
  • Te deum for choir, trumpets, timpani, strings and basso continuo, a. a. recorded in 1980 with the North German Figural Choir and the Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik under the direction of Jörg Straube (WDR 3, Music on Holiday)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Wolff: On the musical history of Kyrie from Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B minor , commemorative publication Bruno Stäblein. Kassel, 1967. p. 316.
  2. ↑ Konrad Küster, Bach Handbuch , Kassel 1999, p. 503f.
  3. ^ Karl Leopold Strauven : About artistic life and work in Düsseldorf to the Düsseldorf painter school under director Schadow . Hofbuchdruckerei H. Voss, Düsseldorf 1862, p. 33
personal data
SURNAME Poacher, Johann Hugo von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German baroque composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1670 or 1671
PLACE OF BIRTH Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH June 1724
Place of death Mannheim