Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw

Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw (Youth Portrait)

Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw at the age of 81

Johann Wilhelm Cornelius of Königslöw even Königslöv (* 16th March 1745 in Hamburg , † 14. May 1833 in Lübeck ), a German was organist and composer of classical music , long at over 50 St. Mary's Church of Lübeck worked.

Life

He received piano and singing lessons from his father Johann Christoph Burchard von Königslöw at an early age . In 1758, Adolf Karl Kunzen , the organist of Lübeck's Marienkirche, asked from Königslöw to come to Lübeck, where he worked as a treble player a . a. participated in the evening music .

With Kunzen he received composition , organ and violin lessons. After Kunzen suffered a stroke , von Königslöw was appointed as his adjunct and deputy in 1772 and after Kunzen's death in 1781 he succeeded him in the office of organist and master craftsman at St. Marien. The later successor in office had already been assured by Königslöw by the City Council of Lübeck when he took over the position of adjunct.

Königslöw gave pure organ concerts for the first time in Lübeck, which were also marked as such. In addition, he continued the series of evening music that took place every year until the French era around 1810, but from 1789 moved it to the stock exchange hall in Lübeck's town hall and from around 1793 mainly performed foreign or older works. With the end of the cantorate on the occasion of the retirement of the last cantor Johann Hermann Schnobel in 1801, Königlsöw also became the city's music director.

In addition to these tasks, von Königslöw was in charge of the Lübeck lovers' and winter concerts , of which he became the sole responsible director in 1791.

In addition to the council musicians , who were provided free of charge by the city of Lübeck, von Königslöw also used amateur musicians in his concerts and founded a singing institute for the performance of oratorios (including by Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven) and other vocal works .

Works

• Young Tobias Marriage: Oratorio. (1781), libretto: Christian August Förtsch

Edition: Regina Oehlmann (ed.) (Publications of the Lübeck City Library: Series 3) Library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 2003 ISBN 9783933652195

• Joseph , Oratorio (1784), St. Petersburg
• David's accession to the throne (David's victory over the Philistines). Evening music in five sections. (1785), digitized version of the autograph , signature Mus A 166, Lübeck City Library
• The rescue of the child Moses. Evening music in three sections. (1788), digitized version of the autograph , signature Mus A 169 a, Lübeck City Library
• The born world savior: an oratorio. - [Evening music in two sections]. (1788), digitized version of the autograph , signature Mus A 169 b, Lübeck City Library

Edition: Library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 2006

• Death, resurrection and judgment. [Evening music in two parts]. (1790), digitized version of the autograph , signature Mus A 171, Lübeck City Library
• David's lament at Hermon , Oratorio (1793), Library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 2003
• Introduction and fugue in d and introduction and fugue in c , in: Lübecker Orgelbuch , Publications of the Lübeck City Library Series 3, Vol. 26, Lübeck 2003
• Introduction and fugue in C major and Introduction and fugue in F , in: Lübecker Orgelbuch , Publications of the Lübeck City Library Series 3, Vol. 10, Lübeck 2000

Web links

Commons : Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Adolf Karl Kunzen	Organist at St. Marien zu Lübeck 1781 - 1833	Gottfried Herrmann