Joseph Gelinek
Joseph Gelinek or Josef Gelinek (Czech Josef Jelínek ; born December 3, 1758 in Sedlec , Bohemia , † April 13, 1825 in Vienna ) was a Bohemian- Austrian composer and pianist.
Life
Joseph Gelinek attended the Jesuit college in Příbram and studied theology in Prague. Here he was also a student of Josef Seger . In 1786 he was ordained a priest and, through Mozart's mediation, got a job as chaplain and music teacher at the court of Count Philip Kinsky in Prague. As a piano teacher for the nobility, he met Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven in Vienna and became a pupil of Johann Georg Albrechtsberger .
The guitarist Wenzel Matiegka was one of Gelinek's students .
Gelinek was later in the service of Prince Joseph Kinsky and was appointed to the imperial court as a teacher. From 1818 "Abbé Gelinek" was the house chaplain and piano teacher in the palace of the Esterházy princes . In addition to more than a hundred series of variations on themes by Mozart , Beethoven and Weber , he composed piano sonatas, trios and violin sonatas.
His works were acclaimed by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and were so popular that other composers published works under his name.
Under the pseudonym Joseph Gelinek , a Spanish musicologist published the Beethoven crime thriller La Décima Sinfonía (German: The 10th Symphony , 2009) in 2008.
literature
- Rudolf Nowotny: Gelinek, Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 174 ( digitized version ).
- Gelinek Joseph. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 420.
- Jaroslav Čeleda: Mozartovec J. Jelínek . In: Bertramka 2, 1950, 2, ZDB -ID 2388345-5 , pp. 5-7.
- Moritz Fürstenau : Gelinek: Abbé Joseph G. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 543 f.
- Paul Nettl: Forgotten Musicians . Philosophical Library, New York NY 1951, 272ff.
Web links
- Works by and about Joseph Gelinek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Joseph Gelinek in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Libbert : Foreword. In: Jürgen Libbert (Ed.): Wenzel Matiegka, 12 easy pieces for guitar. Edition Preißler, 1979.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gelinek, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jelínek, Josef (Czech) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian-Austrian composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sedlec-Prčice |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1825 |
| Place of death | Vienna |