Johann Joseph Abert

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Johann Joseph Abert, 1866. Graphic by Krüll and Michael.
Johann Joseph Abert (ca.1900)

Johann Joseph Abert , also Jan Josef Abert (born September 20, 1832 in Kochowitz (Kochovice) near Gastorf (Hoštka) ( Bohemia ); † April 1, 1915 in Stuttgart ) was a German-Bohemian composer , conductor and double bass player .

Life

Johann Joseph Aberts was the master mason Wenzel Abert. At the age of ten he came to the Augustinian monastery in Bohemian-Leipa . Here he received literary lessons for four years. In 1846 he began to study at the Prague Conservatory . He received instrumental lessons from the double bass player Josef Hrabě . Johann Friedrich Kittl , the director of the conservatory, gave him composition lessons and August Wilhelm Ambros lessons in music theory. While still at the conservatory, he composed his first two overtures in 1848 and 1849. The symphony in B minor followed in 1851. He conducted the work when he was leaving the Conservatory. In 1853 he was engaged as a double bass player in the court orchestra in Stuttgart under Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner . The symphony in C minor followed in 1854, which Lindpaintner conducted in Stuttgart. In 1856 he wrote the 3rd symphony in A major and dedicated the jubilee overture to Emperor Franz-Joseph I. For this he received a brilliant ring from the emperor. He worked at the Stuttgart Opera from 1867 to 1888 as court conductor and was a successful composer. The morning after the premiere of his opera Astorga , which had taken place on May 20, 1866, the King of Württemberg , who had attended the premiere, had him called to personally appoint him Royal Music Director.

His works, including several operas and seven symphonies , found great recognition at home and abroad during his time. He also composed songs and chamber music . His musical legacy is in the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart and partly in the German Literature Archive in Marbach . Numerous works by Abert, including the Columbus Symphony, two double bass concerts, overtures, his string quartet, piano pieces, songs and his mass have appeared in concert halls in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and the USA and in some cases on the radio in recent years Television to reruns.

His son Hermann Abert (1871–1927), professor of musicology in Halle, Leipzig and Berlin, published in 1919/1921 - based on Otto Jahn's monograph WA Mozart  - a “revised and expanded edition” that is still often quoted and the first to be published Mozart's biography which has grown in his own scientific and artistic exhibition applies. His granddaughter Anna Amalie Abert (1906–1996), professor of musicology in Kiel, carried on her father's legacy. a. with history of the opera , 1994.

Compositions (selection)

Operas

  • Anna von Landskron . Opera in 4 acts. Libretto : Christian Gottfried Nehrlich (* April 22, 1802 Ruhland , Oberlausitz ; † January 8, 1868 Berlin). Premiere 1858 Stuttgart ( Court Theater )
  • King Enzio . Opera in 4 acts. Libretto: Albert Dulk . Premiere 1862 Stuttgart (Court Theater)
    • New version: Enzio von Hohenstaufen . Libretto: Albert Dulk. Premiere 1875 Stuttgart (Court Theater)
  • Astorga . Romantic opera in 3 acts. Libretto: Ernst Pasqué (based on episodes from the life of the composer Emanuele d'Astorga ). Premiere May 27, 1866 Stuttgart (Court Theater). German premiere 1866 Leipzig; afterwards u. a. 1870 Vienna (Carltheater), 1876 Prague (in Czech translation) and Basel, 1888 Poznan
  • Enzio von Hohenstaufen first performed in Stuttgart in 1875
  • Ekkehard . Opera in 5 acts. Libretto: Adolf Kröner (based on the novel by Joseph Victor von Scheffel about Ekkehard von St. Gallen ). Premiere October 11, 1878 Berlin ( Hofoper ) OCLC 806952535
    • Recording: Ekkehard . Hadwig: Nyla from Ingen. Praxedis: Susanne Kelling. Spazzo: Henryk Böhm. Count of Monfort: Jörg Hempel. Watzmann: Alfred Reiter. Rudimann: Christian Gerhaher . Ekkehard: Jonas Kaufmann . Forest woman: Mihoko Fujimura. Stuttgart choristers. Rehearsal: Ulrich Eistert. SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern . Director: Peter Falk. Concert recording from the autumnal Musiktage Bad Urach 1998. Capriccio 2000
  • The Almohads . Libretto:?. Premiere 1890 Leipzig

Symphonies

  • Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor. 1852
  • Symphony No. 2 in C minor. 1854
  • Symphony No. 3 in A major. 1856 I Andante maestoso II Scherzo III Allegretto IV Finale: Allegro. Recorded by the Northwest German Philharmonic under Reinhard Peters
  • Symphony No. 4 in D major op.31 . Columbus , musical sea painting in the form of a symphony for a large orchestra. Program symphony 1864, recorded in 1996 by the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra Zlin under the direction of Werner Stiefel on the Bayer Records label
  • Symphony No. 5 in C minor. 1870
  • Symphony No. 6 in D minor Lyric. 1890
  • Symphony No. 7 in C major . Spring Symphony in C major. 1893 OCLC 313566824

Works for double bass and orchestra

  • Polonaise and introduction in D major. 1848
  • Variations for double bass and orchestra, recorded in 1849 by Thomas Lom, double bass and the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra Zlin under the direction of Werner Stiefel for Bayer Records, 1996
  • Variations and Rondo in C major. 1849
  • Introduction and Polonaise in C major. 1849
  • Concertino in F major. 1849
  • Concerto in D major. 1851. only piano version by Abert. Orchestral version by Samuel Adler , published by the Southern Music Company, 1989 OCLC 22267651 played in 1996 by the double bass player Thomas Lom and the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra Zlin under the direction of Werner Stiefel on the Bayer Records label
  • Rondo in C major. 1852
  • Variations for double bass and orchestra. 1865 OCLC 897100562 ,

Other works for orchestra

  • Concert overture in E major OCLC 313571445
  • Festival overture for the 50th anniversary of the Prague Conservatory, 1858
  • Festive Overture in D major composed for the royal wedding in Württemberg in 1874
  • Jubilation overture for large orchestra. Dedicated to Emperor Franz-Josef of Austria. 1855
  • Overture in E major for large orchestra. 1850
  • Overture in D minor for large orchestra. 1851
  • Prelude, chorale and fugue by Joh. Seb. Bach and Choral von Abert, arranged for orchestra by JJ Abert., Published around 1900 by Ries and Ehrler in Berlin. Recorded in 1985 by the choir and orchestra of the Wilhelms-Gymnasium Stuttgart-Degerloch and the organist Eva Schad under the direction of Widmar Hader OCLC 706935269 The prelude is the prelude in C sharp minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier Part 1, the fugue is an organ fugue in G minor. Abert transposed the prelude into the key of D minor and linked it to the organ fugue. In between he put a chorale composed by himself in the style of Bach.
  • Equestrian festival march for harmony orchestra OCLC 681722013

Chamber music

  • String Quartet in A major, Op. 25 OCLC 80750209 , 2007 published by Wolfram Hader at Laurentius-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, recorded by Abert Quartet Stuttgart and on the CD Music from Stuttgart at ARS production in collaboration with the SWR published

Piano works

Organ works

  • Two preludes. OCLC 699290411 Modern first edition 2004 published by Wolfram Hader at Laurentius-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main

Choral works

  • Mass in E flat major for mixed choir and organ op.23.1993 edited by Widmar Hader, at Clavis-Musikverlag Remshalden OCLC 725165852 and at schmidmusic, Calw OCLC 923539802 1985 recorded by the choir and orchestra of the Wilhelms-Gymnasium Stuttgart-Degerloch and the organist Eva Schad under the direction of Widmar Hader OCLC 706935269
  • The satisfied for 4stg. Male choir, text: Ludwig Uhland , OCLC 967786215 2009 published by Wolfram Hader at Laurentius-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main
  • The 100th Psalm for mixed choir and organ
  • Funeral motets for 4-5 days. according to Choir u. Orchestra. 1985 recorded by the choir and orchestra of the Wilhelms-Gymnasium Stuttgart-Degerloch and the organist Eva Schad under the direction of Widmar Hader OCLC 706935269

Songs

  • Separation pain. for 1 voice with accompan. des Pianoforte op.5 , text: Theobald Kerner , OCLC 968342806
  • Love admonition: for 1 voice with accompan. des Pianoforte op. 6 Text: Theobald Kerner
  • Mother and daughter: for 1 voice with accompan. des Pianoforte op.7, ext: Feodor Löwe, OCLC 968342167
  • Nostalgia. for 1 voice with piano accompaniment. Text: J. Ude, OCLC 968342783
  • Six songs for a voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte, published in 1879, published in 2007 on the CD Musik aus Stuttgart by ARS produktion in cooperation with SWR

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Josef Abert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Digital copies

  1. ^ Anna von Landskron, libretto as digitized version in the Munich digitization center of the Bavarian State Library
  2. ↑ Astorga, score as digitized version at IMSLP
  3. ↑ Columbus, musical seascapes in the form of a symphony for large orchestra ... Op. 31. Score. as a digitized version in the Sibley Music Library of the University of Rochester
  4. ↑ Symphony No. 3, digitized score from IMSLP
  5. ^ Concerto, double bass part as digitized version at IMSLP
  6. ↑ Concert-Overture (E major) for orchestra, score as a digitized version in the Württemberg State Library
  7. ↑ Prelude, Choral and Fugue by Joh. Seb. Bach and chorale by Abert, arranged for orchestra by JJ Abert. Score; as a digitized version in the Sibley Music Library of the University of Rochester
  8. ↑ Idyll for piano as a digitized version in the Juillard Manuscript Colection . Countess Elisab's album. Schlik, Prague, p. 278
  9. ↑ Idyll for the pianoforte. In: Allgemeine Musikzeitung , 1850, extra supplement to No. 13. as digitized version in the Munich digitization center of the Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Joseph Abert . In: Süddeutsche Musik-Zeitung . B. Schott's Sons, Mainz April 4, 1859, p. 1 .
  2. ↑ Astorga . In: Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung , July 7, 1866; accessed on July 14, 2016
  3. ^ Christian Gottfried Nehrlich, Johann Joseph Abert: Anna von Landskron (approx. 1858). (PDF) Retrieved March 5, 2017 . Digitized book from the copyright-free holdings of the Bavarian State Library in Munich
  4. ↑ Meeting CD Capriccio 60 080. In: Klassik Heute. Retrieved March 3, 2017 .
  5. ^ Prelude, Chorale and Fugue . In: Philharmonic Society of New York (Ed.): Synopsis of Compositions to be performed at the eighth public rehearsal and concert on April 1 and 2,1898 . New York April 1, 1898, p. 2 .
  6. ↑ Stuttgart Compositions. In: Classic Today. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Abert, Johann Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abert, Jan Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Bohemian composer, conductor and double bass player
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Kochowitz
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1915
Place of death Stuttgart