Johann Wilhelm Friedrich Nisle

Johann Wilhelm Friedrich Nisle (born February 7, 1768 in Ludwigsburg ; † March 5, 1839 in Stuttgart ), was a German horn player and cellist .

Life

Johann Wilhelm Friedrich Nisle came from a family of musicians. He was born as the eldest son of the horn player Johannes Nisle (1735–1788) and his wife Juliane Margarethe (Juliana Margaretha). Kauffmann (1741–1822) born in Ludwigsburg . His younger brother Christian David (1772–?) Also became a respected horn player; his brother Johann Martin Friedrich (1780–1873) a traveling horn virtuoso and composer. The boy got his first name after his godfather, the flute virtuoso Johann Wilhelm Friedrich Steinhardt (? –1838), with whom the father gave numerous concerts.

Like his brothers, Johann Wilhelm Friedrich came to music at an early age; like these he was instructed on the French horn by his father . As early as 1776 his father took him on a concert tour; Both played on August 25, 1776 in Potsdam in front of the Prussian Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm , who gave his "full applause" and issued a letter of recommendation to the traveling musicians. As early as 1783, the 15-year-old had achieved such skill on his instrument that the horn virtuoso Giovanni Punto , actually Johann Wenzel (Jan Václav) Stich (1746–1803), had him perform in his concerts and described his playing as “masterful”. Interrupted by military service in Freiberg, Saxony , from 1787 to 1789, he performed sometimes alone, sometimes together with the brothers until around 1794.

He was discharged from military service due to illness; he was no longer able to play the brass instrument and turned to the violoncello . Johann Wilhelm Friedrich continued his education with Prince Christian Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1753–1800), who admired and supported the Nisle brothers and was himself an excellent cellist. From 1799 or 1800 he was employed as a cellist in the Meiningen court orchestra . In 1805 he married Sophie Christiane, born in Göttingen. Hildebrandt and both of them moved to Stuttgart, where he joined the Württemberg court orchestra as an orchestral musician . He had to improve his musician salary through teaching. Having become hard of hearing in old age, he retired in 1835. He died in Stuttgart in 1839.

His successor as first cellist of the Württemberg court orchestra was his youngest son, Wilhelm Louis Nisle, who played in this orchestra until 1874. Of the five children in the family, of whom the two eldest boys died in childhood and the only daughter was ill for life, the older son Julius Gottlieb became a well-known illustrator.

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]