Justus Amadeus Lecerf

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Justus Amadeus Lecerf (born June 23, 1789 in Rosendorf near Weißenfels , † March 28, 1868 in Dresden ) was a German composer , music teacher and municipal music director in Aachen .

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Lecerf moved to Leipzig at a young age , where he attended school, received his first piano lessons from Thomaskantor August Eberhard Müller and attracted attention as early as 1803/04 with piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven . Around 1807 he began studying law and graduated with admission to the bar . During this time, however, his inclination for music was always lively, and so from 1815 he decided to train as a pianist at the Kreuzschule in Dresden with Christian Theodor Weinlig and then in Paris with Anton Reicha , who also introduced him to the theory of Instructed counterpoint . After this time, Lecerf took over piano and singing lessons as a private teacher for the princesses of the Polish noble house Schoenaich-Carolath in 1817 , but went back to Paris three years later, where he worked in the same position. Another three years later he moved to Dresden for family reasons before he accepted a call to Aachen in 1824, where he was responsible for the Aachen Symphony Orchestra at the Aachen Theater until 1829 .

In 1829 he settled in Berlin , where he worked as a singing teacher at the Köllnisches Gymnasium and some private schools until 1843 . In 1832 he applied for the position of director of the Berlin Singakademie , which Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen received. From 1838 to 1840 he corresponded with Robert Schumann  - mostly on his own account.

Finally, in 1843, he returned to Dresden for family reasons, where he gave private singing and piano lessons until his death in 1868.

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In 1848, his newly set Singspiel, based on texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Jery ​​and Bätely, was performed at the Dresden Court Theater with a final scene specially added by Goethe for Lecerf. In addition, he composed nine chants for Goethe's Faust , a funeral motet for the death of Friedrich Wilhelm III. , numerous songs, ballads and two piano sonatas.

Works (selection)

  • Nine songs for Goethe's Faust , Berlin: Magazine for Art, Geography and Music, 1825 - Revised new edition in 1838 by Adolf Martin Schlesinger in Berlin
  • Chants and singing exercises for the youth , first volume, 1835
  • Funeral motets “The day of life is heavy and sultry” on the death of Friedrich Wilhelm III. for four voices and piano, Berlin: Trautwein 1840
  • Piano Sonata in C major op. 21/1, Berlin: Trautwein 1840
  • Piano Sonata in G minor op. 21/2, Berlin: Trautwein 1840
  • Jery ​​and Bätely , Singspiel 1848

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The statement in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie that Lecerf was born in “Bosendorf bei Weißenfels” is probably a misprint, because a place with this name cannot be proven in Germany. In contrast, the community of Rosendorf is actually 60 km south of Weißenfels.
  2. ↑ Georg Schünemann , Die Singakademie zu Berlin 1791–1941 , Regensburg 1941, p. 73

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SURNAME Lecerf, Justus Amadeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, music teacher and city music director in Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH June 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Bosendorf near Weißenfels
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1868
Place of death Dresden