Johann Theodor Mosewius

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Johann Theodor Mosewius

Johann Theodor Mosewius also Johann Theodor Mosevius (birth name "Moses") (born September 25, 1788 in Königsberg , † September 15, 1858 in Schaffhausen , Switzerland ) was a German opera singer (bass), choir director and music director of the University of Breslau .

Life

After studying law , he trained as an opera singer (bass) and worked as such at the theater in Königsberg , at the time of August von Kotzebue's management (1814-1816), after which he moved to Breslau, where he worked until he fell out with the theater tenant Thank God Benedict Bierey and the death of his wife as a singer and actor.

Following the example of Carl Friedrich Zelter and his Sing-Akademie zu Berlin , Mosewius founded such an institute in Breslau in 1825, initially with 26 members, and six months later the choir performed Handel's oratorio Samson under his direction .

One year after Mendelssohn's re-performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion in Berlin, Mosewius studied it in Breslau in 1830 with overwhelming success. As a conductor and researcher, he took on the popularization of Bach, and Wroclaw became one of the most important centers for Bach maintenance until 1945.

After founding the Singakademie, which partly existed next to the Breslauer Liedertafel, he became a singing teacher and university music director (1827/1832), head of the Academic Institute for Church Music (1831), and founder of the musical circle for the performance of sacred music (1834). The institute performed Italian oratorios as well as those by Mendelssohn, Carl Loewe , Louis Spohr , Adolf Bernhard Marx and others. In Breslau he joined the Freemason lodge "Friedrich zum Golden Scepter".

Shortly after his departure from the Breslau theater on December 16, 1825, Mosewius performed parts of Franz Schubert's song cycle ' Die Schöne Müllerin ' for the first time as part of a musical evening entertainment in the Breslau provincial resource .

Mosewius achieved international recognition through his activities and writings, and during his time at the theater he had always sought close contact with influential journalists (in Breslau, for example, Karl Schall ).

Mosewius was married to the singer Sophie Wilhelmine, born in 1810. Müller (1792–1825), who had made her debut in Berlin in 1805 and then got a job in Königsberg, stayed in Berlin from 1810–1812 and had been engaged in Breslau since 1816.

His nickname as an external member of the Vienna artist society Ludlamshöhle is "Sebastiano da Solfeggio".

Fonts

  • Michael Heinemann (Ed.): Johann Theodor Mosewius: Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion, presented in a musical aesthetic way. (Bound: Johann Sebastian Bach in his church cantatas and choral songs. ) Reprint of the editions 1845/52, Hildesheim 2001.

literature

  • Robert Eitner :  Mosewius, Ernst Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 390-392.
  • Carl Julius Adolph Hoffmann (Ed.): The Tonkünstler Schlesiens . Wroclaw 1830.
  • Memorandum in memory of Bierey and his administration of the Breslau Theater at the opening of the new theater in Breslau in October 1841.
  • Anonymous (Ernst Friedrich Baumgart or Anna Kempe): memories of Ernst Theodor Mosewius. Breslau 1859. google books
  • Directory of music from the estate of the late Dr. J. Th. Mosewius and the musical library containing the legacy book collection of Dr. Johann Theodor Mosewius. Breslau undated [around 1860].
  • Lothar Hoffmann inheritance law: The beginnings of the Breslau Singakademie under Johann Theodor Mosewius. In: Wolf Frobenius et al. (Ed.): Academy and Music…: Festschrift for Werner Braun. Saarbrücken 1993, pp. 157-63.
  • Till Gerrit Waidelich: "Torupson" and Franz von Schober - life and work of the Schubert and Schwind friend courted by women, friends and biographers, in: Schubert: Perspektiven 6 (2006), issue 1 and 2 - special issue, p. 1 -237. ISSN  1617-6340 . (See table of contents and register of persons, in: Schubert: Perspektiven 7 (2007), pp. 107–120). It contains information on Mosewius as a theater singer and a portrait of the young Mosewius, pp. 59–157.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ TG Waidelich, Unknown Schubert documents from Breslau , in: Schubert: Perspektiven 8 (2008), Stuttgart 2009, pp. 17–48, in particular p. 27 and 48.

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personal data
SURNAME Mosewius, Johann Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mosewius, Ernst Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (bass), choir director and music director of the University of Wroclaw
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1858
Place of death Schaffhausen