Karl Friedrich Heinrich Haack

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Karl Haack (1755-1819)

Karl Friedrich Heinrich Haack (also Charles Haacke, born February 18, 1755 in Potsdam ; † September 28, 1819 , ibid) was a German violinist, composer and royal concertmaster of the Prussian court orchestra .

Parents were Christian Fridrich Hacke and Johanne Eleonora Junge. The father, born in Berlin , served as a Hautboist in the Prussian Regiment on foot, Crown Prince No. 6, was then a city musician in Berlin and since 1768 a citizen of Potsdam, where he ran the White Taube inn in his house at 3 Ebräerstrasse .

The younger son Friedrich Wilhelm Haack (1760-1827) was an organist and music director in Stettin .

Life

Haack was a pupil of Franz Benda and in turn was a teacher of well-known violinists and later concert and band masters: Carl Moeser , Karl August Seidler and Ludwig Maurer .

Haack was a member of the chamber music ensemble of the Crown Prince of Prussia and later King Friedrich Wilhelm II . During a stay in Paris the sonatas opus 5 and 6 were composed. In 1782 Haack was appointed concertmaster of the chapel of the crown prince. When the crown prince and royal chapels were united after Friedrich Wilhelm II took office in 1786, Haack became first violinist and in 1796 concertmaster of the court orchestra . Haack was retired in 1811 on the occasion of the renewed reorganization of the court orchestra, opera orchestra and chapel of the National Theater. His successor as first violinist and concertmaster was his student Karl Möser, and his student Carl August Seidler was also hired as concertmaster in 1816.

Haack had his primary tasks in the chamber orchestra and in the royal private string quartet , in which Friedrich Wilhelm is said to have also played the violoncello as king . In addition, Haack appeared as a conductor and soloist in numerous concerts. When urban concert life gradually developed in Berlin , Haack u. a. In 1783 and 1784 in the Concerts spirituel, based on the French model, and as a soloist in other public concerts, where he also performed his own violin concertos . Together with the band masters Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Vincenzo Righini , Haack drafted the successful petition to the king on behalf of the entire band in 1800 to allow public charity concerts to be held in favor of the widows and orphans fund of the royal chapel. The obituary in 1819 read: “On the 28th, the retired Königl died in his native Potsdam. Concertmaster Carl Haak in the 65th year of his life. He was an excellent violinist and a accomplished pianist, and wrote excellent things for both instruments, some of which are printed. "

With his wife Friederica Henrietta Hansmann (1753-1823), daughter of the royal inspector Friedrich Hansmann, Haack had five children.

Services

The Musical Almanac for Germany for the year 1781/1782 lists excellent artists on various musical instruments: “Hacke (Carl) chamber musician with the Prince of Prussia; born in Potsdam - He plays with great taste and skill. "" According to the judgment of several local connoisseurs, he is a very excellent violinist, whose intonation is quite pure, who plays his adagio only, and whose performance is generally inspired by truth and expression. Since it also belongs to the finished piano player, it has not been shown in the old Lexicon. He has also shown himself to be a thorough composer for both instruments. His violin concerto in D minor is particularly praised for its pure composition, the good plan and the characteristics according to which it is worked. ”In a concert review of the musicians involved in 1792, it says:“ The most distinguished of them was undoubtedly the great and famous violinist from the Royal Chapel, Mr. Haake, who with the intention of the large and pure tone, the touching, as well as the lively, fiery expression, and especially in the gentle melting of the tones, which he can make disappear like a fine web, barely audible to the ear; in order to swell it up all the more vigorously - certainly looking for its equal. "" In terms of violin technique, he is said to have emerged less through virtuoso brilliance than through unusually expressive playing, especially in slow movements. "

Alongside the brothers and sons of Franz Bendas, Haack is considered to be the main representative of the “North German” school of Franz Benda, which was characterized by an expressive adagio play.

ETA Hoffmann honored Haack as violin teacher and concert master in a rich and imaginative short story " The Baron von B. ", whereby the characters Haack and Möser seem to merge.

Works

  • 6 violin concertos, 5 of which are fully preserved: opus 1 in G major, opus 2 in D major, opus 3 in A major, opus 4 in F major, opus 6 in A major;
  • 3 sonatas for clavecin / pianoforte and violin or flute (trio sonatas) opus 5 (Sonata 1 is preserved);
  • 3 sonatas for clavecin / pianoforte and violin or flute (trio sonatas) opus 6;

printed by Johann Julius Hummel in Berlin / Amsterdam, rewritten as scores and archived.

literature

  • Friedrich Frick: Small Biographical Lexicon of Violinists: From the beginning of violin playing to the beginning of the 20th century. BoD, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-3907-8 , p. 187.
  • Ernst Ludwig Gerber: New historical-biographical lexicon of the Tonkünstler (1812-1814). Edited by Othmar Wessely. Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1966, p. 453.
  • Christoph Henzel: Source texts on Berlin music history in the 18th century. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1999, ISBN 3-7959-0761-6 .
  • Johann Friedrich Reichardt (Ed.): Musical Almanach. Unger, Berlin 1796.
  • Hans Michel Schletterer: Joh. Friedrich Reichardt. His life and musical activity. Schlosser, Augsburg 1865.
  • Chapell White: From Vivaldi to Viotti: A history of the early classical violin concerto. Gordon and Breach, Philadelphia 1992, ISBN 2-88124-495-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottlob Carl Friderich Haacke. Baptism book of Infantry Regiment No. 6, 1755 / 18.2. GStA PK, VII HA, MKB MF 1199. The Musical Almanac 1796 (edited by Johann Friedrich Reichardt), Gerber 1892 a. a. Music lexicons and RISM incorrectly name 1750 or 1757 as the year of birth.
  2. ↑ Marriage July 31, 1754 Baptismal Register Infantry Regiment No. 6, 1754/21, GStA PK, VII HA, MKB MF 1200 (No. 21), July 31.
  3. ^ Friedrich Nicolai: Description of the royal royal cities of Berlin and Potsdam, of all the peculiarities located there, and the surrounding area. (3rd edition, Volume 3) Berlin, 1786, p. 1305.
  4. ^ Werner Schwarz Pomeranian Music History. Volume 2, life pictures of musicians in and from Pomerania. Research on Pomeranian History, Series V, Volume 28. Böhlau, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-412-04382-6 , pp. 108-111.
  5. ^ Friedrich Frick: Small Biographical Lexicon of Violinists. From the beginning of the violin to the beginning of the 20th century. BoD - Books on Demand June 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-3907-8 (accessed November 5, 2012)
  6. ↑ Hans Michel Schletterer: Joh. Friedrich Reichardt. His life and musical activity. Schlosser, Augsburg 1865.
  7. ↑ Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung. 1819, October, No. 42, p. 716.
  8. ↑ Johann Nikolaus Forkel: Musical Almanach for Germany for the year 1782, reprint of the Leipzig 1781 edition. Weihert, Darmstadt 1981, p. 97.
  9. ↑ Ernst Ludwig Gerber: New Historical-Biographical Lexicon of the Tonkünstler (1812-1814). (edited by Othmar Wessely). Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1966, p. 453.
  10. ^ Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius Kunzen, Johann Friedrich Reichardt: Studies for sound artists and music lovers. A historical-critical journal for the year 1792 in 2 parts. Olms, Hildesheim 1991, p. 173.
  11. ^ Friedrich Frick: Small Biographical Lexicon of Violinists. From the beginning of the violin to the beginning of the 20th century. P. 187.
  12. ^ Hugo Riemann: Riemann Musiklexikon. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1959, p. 706.
    Chapell White: From Vivaldi to Viotti: A history of the early classical violin concerts. Gordon and Breach, Philadelphia 1992, ISBN 2-88124-495-5 .
  13. ↑ On the “real Bendaschen way of playing” see Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1774) in his letters from an attentive traveler regarding music (Henzel, 1999, pp. 56–57, pp. 277–278). Christoph Henzel: Source texts on Berlin music history in the 18th century. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1999, ISBN 3-7959-0761-6 .
  14. ^ Poetic works in six volumes. Volume 4: Stories, Fairy Tales and Writings. The Serapion Brothers. De Gruyter, Berlin 1963 [1]
  15. ↑ Preserved oeuvre based on the Hummel catalogs from 1762 to 1814 (JJ & B. Hummel music-publishing and thematic catalogs (by Cari Johansson). Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell), music in the past and present MGG and Répertoire International des Sources Musicales RISM . The assignment of individual works to Karl or Friedrich Wilhelm Haack, also a student of Franz Benda, is not reliably represented in all music lexicons.
  16. ↑ International Music Score Library Project (Petrucci Music Library) [2]
personal data
SURNAME Haack, Karl Friedrich Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haack, Gottlob Carl Friderich; Haacke, Charles; Hacke, Karl Friedrich Heinrich; Haak, Karl Friedrich Heinrich; Haake, Karl Friedrich Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist, composer and royal concertmaster of the Prussian court orchestra
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1819
Place of death Potsdam