Johann Jacob Hommert

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Johann Jacob Hommert (also: Johann Jakob Hommert ; * January 2, 1756. In Osterwald near Garbsen ; † December 18, 1825 in Hanover ) was a Royal British and Elector Hanoverian , later Royal Hanoverian court and chamber musician , violinist and organist .

Life

Johann Jakob Hommert was a son of the Royal British and Electoral Hanoverian court and chamber musician and violist Johann Ernst Hommert (1717–1778), who - like his son later - was one of initially only 20 known musicians in the court orchestra whose service in the There was music at court; During the time of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover, it was in the palace opera house of the Leineschloss .

Johann Jakob Hommert also worked in the Leineschloss as the organist of the castle church , in which two daughters of the Hanoverian citizen , baker and baker's colleague Johann Jobst Wagener , the founder of the Johann Jobst-Wagener Foundation, married . One of these daughters was his heiress Sophie Lowisa Wagener (* 1748 in Hanover; † 1812 there), who married the organist in the palace church in 1785. The marriage "seems to have remained childless".

From October 1789, Johann Jacob Hommert, who also made music as a violinist, went on a one-year tour to London , but instead of with his newly wed wife Sophie Lowisa now with the singer and actress Henriette, who first appeared from September 1787 for the Hanoverian theater director Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Grossmann Kneisel (1767–1801), whose partner Hommert was now referred to as - the two separated again in 1792.

Johann Jakob Hommert was appointed royal court and chamber musician in Hanover in 1795 - like his father before that. After the so-called French era and the elevation of the former electorate to the Kingdom of Hanover, Hommert retired on April 18, 1823.

Remarks

  1. Deviating from this, the leaflet states Who was Johann Jobst Wagener? ... (see there) the Hanoverian Kreuzkirche as the workplace of the organist Hommert.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d o. V .: Who was Johann Jobst Wagener? Family tree and family history of the founder of the Wagener Foundation. Leaflet in: Welcome. Information and program for the celebration on June 2nd, 2017. Loose-leaf collection for the anniversary of the completion of the renovation work, with a slipcase for the celebrations on June 2, 2017, ed. by the Johann Jobst Wagener Foundation in collaboration with the Lower Saxony Family Studies Association . [Johann Jobst Wagenersche Foundation], Hanover [2017].
  2. a b c d e f Wulf Konold (Ges.-Red.), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author): III. Period / 1714 to 1803 / Royal British Period. In: this .: The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986. Published by the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover GmbH. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 1986, ISBN 3-87706-041-2 , p. 176ff.
  3. a b o. V .: Kneisel, Henriette. In: Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe. Digital edition. (WeGA, Version 3.0.1 of February 2, 2017) in the process of December 21, 2015, last accessed on June 2, 2017.