Karl Kiesewetter (musician)

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Karl Kiesewetter (full name Christoph Gottfried Karl Kiesewetter ; also Christoph Gottfried Carl Kiesewetter and Carl Christoph Kiesewetter ; born September 24, 1777 in Ansbach , † August 29, 1827 in London ) was a German violinist , violin teacher and concert master . As one of the most important violin virtuosos of his time, he was also particularly committed to reforms in musical performance practice, for example by having symphonies performed in full for the first time.

Life

Karl Kiesewetter was the son of Johann Friedrich Kiesewetter (also: Kisewetter ; 1732–?), Who in 1754 had become first violinist of the Ansbach court orchestra and chamber registrar for the Margrave of Ansbach , Karl Wilhelm Friedrich .

No data seem to have survived on Karl Kiesewetter's training; However, he could be proven as concertmaster in the city of Oldenburg , which had been expanded to the royal seat under the later regent Peter I. During the so-called " French period ", the occupation of various parts of the former Holy Roman Empire of the German nation by the troops of Napoleon Bonaparte , left Kiesewetter the area of the Duchy of Oldenburg and went in 1812 to the former royal capital of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg : The Court Orchestra in Hannover was During the French occupation, it had shrunk to seven members of the court orchestra since 1803, who also received no salaries during the occupation until 1814. After the death of the Hanoverian concert master Anton Wilhelm L'Evèque (1759–1812), Kiesewetter took over the direction of the so-called “lovers' concerts” in the same year, 1812, which the court orchestra performed in the castle opera house in the Leineschloss , also known as the castle theater .

At the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , Karl Kiesewetter received the title of Royal Concertmaster in 1814. Although the sovereign resided on the British island as part of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover with his court, Kiesewetter managed to expand the Hanoverian orchestra to almost 30 musicians, from 1815 consisting of 14 chamber musicians and 15 contract musicians , who from 1817 to public opera and concert services were committed.

According to the Hanover address book for 1817, Kiesewetter lived in Aegidienneustadt at that time, at Aegidienstraße 390b , and then in 1821 at Osterstraße 251 .

As a result of long-term conflicts between the concert master Karl Kiesewetter and the Hanoverian conductor Wilhelm Sutor with regard to powers and performance skills , which were once even mediated by the British king, Kiesewetter left Hanover and from March 4, 1822 "probably in a similar function [as in Hanover] in London ”, but also performed there as a soloist on the violin in the London Philharmonic Concerts.

In his London years, Karl Kiesewetter also worked as a violin teacher.

In the meantime, Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer , who came from the Imperial Court Chapel in Saint Petersburg , had temporarily succeeded Kiesewetter in Hanover, but not until June 11, 1824.

Literature (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Hugo Thielen : Kiesewetter, Christoph Gottfried Karl. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 199
  2. ↑ a b c Wulf Konold (Ges.-Red.), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author): Christoph Gottfried Carl Kiesewetter, Louis Maurer , in this .: The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986 , ed. from the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hannover GmbH, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986, ISBN 3-87706-041-2 , pp. 36-39, v. a. P. 36ff .; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ a b Compare the Hanover address book for the year 1821
  4. ↑ Compare the information in the German National Library
  5. ^ Felix Joseph von Lipowsky : Kisewetter, (Johann Friedrich). In: Baierisches Musik-Lexikon. Jacob Giel, Munich 1811, p. 146; Transcription , link to digitized version and other data on the website of the Bavarian State Library
  6. ^ A b Wulf Konold (Ges.-Red.), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author): The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986 , ed. by the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hannover GmbH, Hannover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986, ISBN 3-87706-041-2 , p. 178
  7. ^ Hugo Thielen: Castle Theater, also Castle Opera House. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 544.
  8. ↑ Compare the digitized version on the website of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library
  9. ^ Wulf Konold (Ges.-Red.), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author): The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986 ..., p. 180
personal data
SURNAME Kiesewetter, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kiesewetter, Christoph Gottfried Karl (full name); Kiesewetter, Christoph Gottfried Carl; Kiesewetter, Carl Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist, violin teacher and concert master
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1827
Place of death London