Johannes Nisle

This article deals with the horn player Johannes Nisle. For other people see Johann Nisle .

Johannes Nisle (born February 28, 1735 in Geislingen an der Steige , † April 10, 1788 during a concert tour, probably in Sorau ), was a German horn player .

Life

Johannes Nisle (Nißle) was born as the fifth son of the butcher and innkeeper Johann Conrad Nißle and the farmer's daughter Barbara, nee. Grupp (Gruppin) was born in Geislingen an der Steige . The family name was written Nißle or Nüßle at the time. As a child he is said to have played the post horn , and later he received thorough music lessons. From 1758 he worked as a hoboist for the Württemberg Guard in Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg . In 1759 he married Juliane Margarethe (Juliana Margaretha) Kauffmann (1741-1822) in Ludwigsburg. He perfected his horn playing with the French horn player and composer Jean-Joseph Rodolphe (Johann Joseph Rudolph), who was a member of the Württemberg court orchestra Carl Eugen from 1760 to 1766 , and also studied composition. From 1763 Rudolph and Nisle were the first two horn players in the court orchestra led by Niccolò Jommelli between 1753 and 1769; after Rudolph's departure, he took over the position of first horn player.

In 1766 Nisle undertook his first concert tour - together with the Italian violinist Antonio Lolli , who was a soloist in the court orchestra from 1758 to 1773. Both performed in Wallerstein, where Nisle should soon orientate himself professionally. Money worries, disputes with the employer and the downsizing of the Württemberg court orchestra led to Nisle quitting his service in 1773 and moving to the more modest court of Prince Kraft Ernst zu Oettingen-Wallerstein (1748–1802) in Wallerstein in Swabia . Nisle stayed in Wallerstein until 1777. This was followed by jobs in Neuwied (around 1779 to 1782), at the Meiningen court orchestra (1783 to 1786) and finally in Hildburghausen, then in Saxony (from 1785). During this time he made extensive concert tours; Together with his eldest son Johann Wilhelm Friedrich, Nisle also played in front of the Prussian Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm in 1776 . Johannes Nisle died during a last concert tour, probably in Sorau (today heuteary ) in Niederlausitz.

His sons Johann Wilhelm Friedrich (1768–1839) and Christian David (1772–?) Were also respected horn players; his youngest son Johann Martin Friedrich (1780–1873) drew attention to himself as a traveling horn virtuoso and resourceful composer throughout Europe.

Nisle, father and sons, famous horn virtuosos. The former, the father, whose first name is not known, was born. in 1737 in Geißlingen in Würt [t] emberg and formed in Stuttgart. In his younger years he was considered one of the greatest French horn players in Germany, and his name was well known. Around 1776 he was concert master of the Prince of Neuwied; fond of traveling, however, as he was at home, he did not stay here long, but after a few years began again long hikes, as he had already done before. This time he also took his two sons, who followed below, with him, in order to give them uninterrupted lessons and to be able to present them to the audience as little virtuosos. When he returned to Stuttgart, he accepted the position offered to him as first horn player in the band for a while. Then he went traveling again.

In 1785 he arrived in Hildburghausen, and already a little sick, he stayed here too, only making a detour to Meiningen here and there until he died in 1788.

His two sons, David and Johann [Martin] Friedrich, of whom the latter was born in Neuwied in 1774 and the latter in 1778, accompanied him - as already mentioned - in their early youth on trips and were instructed by him on the Horn at an early age. David is said to have let himself be heard on the instrument at the age of 5 and also to have the greater virtuoso talent of both; Johann did not show such a particular desire to practice the horn, but he too became a very decent wind player. After the father's death, both brothers stayed with their mother for some time; but then they went traveling together. But they separated after a short time and Johann stayed in Rudolstadt , took lessons from Koch ( Heinrich Christoph Koch ) in composition and piano, and then went to Rostock to listen to colleges and to publish compositions.

David had wandered alone during the time and had built a reputation for himself as a virtuoso. In Vienna in 1806 the two brothers met again, went to Hungary together , where they lived with a nobleman until 1809, and finally went to Italy , especially to Sicily . From this point on, all trace of David disappears; he probably stayed somewhere in Italy. In Catania at least Johann [Martin Friedrich] had been living alone for several years now, occupied himself with teaching and composing and only rarely appeared in public as a horn player. From Catania Johann turned to Naples , but here he fell ill and developed a powerful longing for his German fatherland. Immediately after he had recovered, he tried to satisfy this longing and went back to Germany in 1834 through Switzerland , where, incidentally, he had to stay for a whole year to fully recover his health, but during that time he held the post of music director . In the summer of 1836 he went to London , where he was still in 1837.

Johann [Martin Friedrich] N. was a skilled composer and one has overtures, quintets, quartets and trios, violin duos, horns of various kinds, songs and chants, pianoforte pieces from him.

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]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New Universal Lexicon of Tonkunst , ed. by Eduard Bernsdorf . - Offenbach: André 1861. - Vol. 3, p. 37 f.