Johann Martin Friedrich Nisle

Johann Martin Friedrich Nisle (born December 18, 1780 in Neuwied ; † 1873 during a trip, probably in Neuwied), was a German musician , horn player and composer .

Life

Johann Martin Friedrich Nisle (also Jean or Giovanni Nisle) came from a family of musicians. He was born as the youngest son of the horn player Johannes Nisle (1735–1788) and his wife Juliane Margarethe (Juliana Margaretha). Kauffmann (1741–1822) born in Neuwied . The older brothers Johann Wilhelm Friedrich (1768–1839) and Christian David (1772–?) Were both respected horn players. The numerous journeys and changes of location that determined his life make the biography of the traveling horn virtuoso Johann Martin Friedrich Nisle confusing; also not all stages of his life are clearly proven.

Like his brothers, he came to music early; like these he was instructed on the French horn by his father . As early as 1787/88 he appeared together with his father and brothers at public concerts in Potsdam and Berlin . After his father's death he lives with his mother in Meiningen ; from 1794 he continued his schooling at the Berleburger Hof, where his brothers were employed; In 1798/99 he returned to Meiningen and took piano and composition lessons with Heinrich Christoph Koch in Rudolstadt . In 1800 he enrolled at the University of Rostock . Between 1801 and 1805 his first compositions were published by Werkmeister in Oranienburg and by Schlesinger in Berlin. In 1803 he married Wilhelmine Louise born in Berlin. Strohmer, used Cock; A son was born in 1804. But as early as 1805 the marriage was to be dissolved again due to the abandonment of his wife and son.

In 1805/06 Johann Martin Friedrich traveled with his brother Christian David to Dresden , Prague and Vienna , where he met Carl Maria von Weber , Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven . Supported by Prince Esterházy , the brothers stayed in Vienna, Burgenland and above all in Hungary from 1806 to 1809 . In 1809 they travel to Italy via Trieste . Around 1810 they arrive in Catania , Sicily , where Johann Martin Friedrich made his way as a music teacher and composer for five or six years. (From this time onwards, Christian David Nisle's path in life was uncertain.) In 1816 he traveled to Naples , where he again worked as a music teacher and made acquaintance with important musicians who worked in Naples, including Gioachino Rossini and Saverio Mercadante . Seriously ill in 1820, he made his way home to Germany via Switzerland.

From 1821 to 1824 Johann Martin Friedrich worked as a violist in the Württembergische Hofkapelle , in 1824/25 he was music director in Hofwil (Hofwyl) in Switzerland , and in 1825 music director in Basel . The years between 1825 and 1829 are not documented. In 1829 he lived in Berlin, from where he started traveling again in 1830. Via Koblenz and Trier he came to Paris , where he made the acquaintance of Luigi Cherubini ; then he lived in Trier until 1833. (During this time some of his compositions were published by Simrock in Bonn.) He then went back to Berlin via Bonn , Düsseldorf and Berleburg. In 1835 he moved to Bolesławiec in Silesia (today Bolesławiec ). In 1836 he traveled to Breslau , Leipzig , Frankfurt am Main , Paris, the Netherlands and England. (In 1837 his 6 Duos for horn (or violoncello) and piano op. 51 were published by Novello in London.) In 1837 he returned to Germany and settled first in Meiningen, then in 1838 in Riesenburg in West Prussia (today Prabuty ). Between 1838 and 1846, Nisle probably taught music in Münster for three years . In 1846 he went to Elbing in West Prussia (today Elbląg ), where he worked as a music teacher and composer until 1861. No other whereabouts are known. In 1873 Johann Martin Friedrich Nisle started a trip to Paris again; along the way, Neuwied loses its trace of life.

Mr. J. Nisle, b. in Neuwied around 1782 to 1785, made several art trips a.o. with his travel-loving father, a famous horn player, in his earliest youth. liked a Turk a. Reichardt. ( Daniel Gottlob Türk and Johann Friedrich Reichardt ) With Koch ( Heinrich Christoph Koch ) he trained for composition, then listened to some colleges in Rostock a . gave songs, horn duets, trios, etc. Sonatas that were valued at the time and mostly amateurs were recommended. His wanderlust drove him south. In Vienna , some of Steiner's ( Sigmund Anton Steiner ) were engraved by him. From Vienna he went to Hungary , where one of his operas was given with applause, through Slavonia to Trieste , through Italy to Sicily , where he lived for several years in Catania , taught a. composed, also a musical. Society donated. In Naples he fell ill a. returned to his fatherland, where he had become estranged from a long absence. In Switzerland he stayed as a music director for a year. up, then traveled to the Rhine u. to Paris , came back to Germany a. is now on the way to London . So he belongs to the traveling musician without being a virtuoso; because later he let the horn rest. As a Comp. he promises to give us his best.

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Compositions

Johann Martin Friedrich Nisle left behind a considerable oeuvre of musical compositions from numerous genres. He created works for orchestra, chamber music of various scoring, piano pieces, choral works and songs. (The opus numbers range - with gaps - from 1 to 105.) His own instrument, the French horn , is a virtuoso used in a number of chamber music works.

The music publisher Dohr operates a complete edition of the musical compositions Nisles for several years; The musicologists Christoph Dohr , Guido Johannes Joerg and Christian Vitalis are involved as editors .

Fonts

Nisle's travelogues from 1806 to 1820, his memories from Vienna, Hungary, Sicily and Italy , were published in serial in the Berliner Allgemeine Musikzeitung in 1829 .

literature

• Franz Joseph Lütter, The Nisle family of musicians , ed. by Christian Vitalis . - Cologne: Dohr , 2007. ISBN 978-3-936655-29-2 .

Web links

• Literature [1]
• Nisle Complete Edition [2]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “From this point on, all trace of David disappears; probably he stayed somewhere in Italy. ”; in: New Universal Lexicon of Music , ed. by Eduard Bernsdorf. - Offenbach: André 1861. - Vol. 3, p. 37 f.
2. ↑ biography ; in: Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung . - Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel , September 7, 1836 (38th year, no. 36, col. 592 f.).
3. ^ Reprinted in: Lütter: The Nisle Musician Family , p. 179 ff.