Johann Valentin Hamm
Johann Valentin Hamm (born December 11, 1811 in Winterhausen , Würzburg district , † December 21, 1874 in Würzburg ) was a Bavarian music director , concertmaster and composer .
Life
After studying music, Hamm settled in Würzburg in 1838 as a music teacher for violin . From 1842 he was also a member of the Würzburg theater orchestra , later probably its music director.
In the spa town of Kissingen , Hamm took over the post of concert master of the Bad Kissingen spa orchestra , which at that time only played in the summer season, and which Matthias Heinefetter from Mainz took over as conductor in the same year . He designed the program for the early concerts and introduced the morning chorale that is still common today at the beginning of the concert. The spa music should - and still should - have a therapeutic effect on the psyche of sick people. This is exactly the direction in which Hamm's compositions aimed, for the spa orchestra a total of 86 dances, marches and songs under the title "Kissinger Bad Season, popular dances and marches of the spa orchestra for the Piano Forte" .
Hanns-Helmut Schnebel from the German Society for Military Music wrote about Hamm's compositions as spa music: “... if you examine the performed compositions of Hamm's Kissinger Bad-Saison, you will find that this endeavors to restore mental, mental and physical health is available: All marches and dances are composed in major keys and thus already have a positive effect; in addition, they are cheerful, even lively in the melody. Even the marches dedicated to the military are not aggressive, but rhythmic, lively and moving forward. "
When the Russian Tsar Alexander II heard some marches composed by Hamm during one of his stays (1857, 1864) in Bad Kissingen, he wanted to purchase the compositions for his military band in Saint Petersburg . Hamm then dedicated three jubilee marches to the Tsar under the title “Memories of Kissingen” . For this he was rewarded with a diamond ring.
Hamm only parted ways with the Kissinger Kurorchester in 1871 - the same year that Heinefetter gave up his conductors. Shortly before his death he composed the "Bismarck Rescue Jubilation March" out of joy over the failure of the assassination attempt on Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck on July 13, 1874 during his first stay in Kissingen.
Shortly before Christmas 1874, on December 21, Hamm died in Würzburg as a result of a stroke .
Works (selection)
- Great victory overture
- My artist greeting to Johann Strauss
- Milanollo March (now the official speed march of the British Army's Coldstream Guards )
- Parade march number 1
- Munich Industry Exhibition March (1856)
- L'Attaque
- Funeral march for the death of Mrs. Henriette Sontag
- Triple talk for flute, oboe, clarinet and orchestra
- Bismarck rescue jubilation march (1874)
literature
- Hanns-Helmut Schnebel: The march composer Johann Valentin Hamm . German Society for Military Music V. (Hrsg.), "Vereinzeitschrift" issue 37/1988
- Hanns-Helmut Schnebel: Johann Valentin Hamm, conductor, composer and music teacher , in: "Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch", Volume 39, Friends of Mainfränkischer Kunst und Geschichte eV (Ed.), Würzburg 1987
- Gerhard Wulz: When spa guests were still allowed to make music. Comments on Johann Valentin Hamm (1811-1874) . In: "Saale-Zeitung", Bad Kissingen August 2007
Web links
- Works by and about Johann Valentin Hamm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Johann Valentin Hamm in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Kissinger Kurliste from 1855 lists him as "MD" = music director.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hamm, Johann Valentin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music director, concertmaster, composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winterhausen , Würzburg district |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1874 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |