Karl Klingemann (diplomat)
Karl Klingemann , also Carl Klingemann , (born December 2, 1798 in Limmer an der Leine , † September 25, 1862 in London ) was a German civil servant, diplomat and writer.
Life
Klingemann was initially a clerk, then chancellor at the Royal Hanoverian Embassy in Paris (1816), Berlin (from 1818) and from September 1827, Legation Secretary in London under Legation Councilor Adolph Graf von Kielmannsegg .
Probably since 1825 he had known the Mendelssohn Bartholdy family , in whose house at Leipziger Strasse 3, on Bel Etage , the Hanoverian embassy was located. He became a close friend of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and exchanged many letters with him. Mendelssohn Bartholdy always stopped by Klingemann on his visits to London. The lifelong friendship of the two is documented by an extensive correspondence comprising more than 300 letters. In addition to several song texts, Klingemann also wrote the libretto for the Singspiele Die Hochzeit des Camacho (1825, Op. 10) and The Homecoming from Foreign Countries (Opus 89, 1829) for his friend .
On August 10, 1845, he married Sophie Rosen (1822–1901) in Detmold , the half-sister of Friedrich August Rosen and sister of Georg Rosen ; The marriage resulted in five children, only three of whom survived, including Karl , who later became the general superintendent of the Rhine Province.
His London apartment in the house of the Hanover Legation at 4 Hobart Place in the Belgravia district was the social center; belonged to the circle of friends u. a. Malwida from Meysenbug . At the house since 2013 a blue plaque (reminiscent Blue Plaque ) to the stays Mendelssohn.
literature
- Karl Klingemann (Ed.): Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's correspondence with Legation Councilor Karl Klingemann in London. GD Baedeker, Essen 1909, ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
- Regina Back: "Friend of my musical soul". Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Carl Klingemann in a letter dialogue. Bärenreiter, Kassel et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7618-2299-9 (also: Hamburg, University of Music and Theater, dissertation, 2012).
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Klingemann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Karl Klingemann in the German Digital Library
- Mendelssohn's letter to Carl Klingemann, June 23, 1834. In: Opochinsky Collection of Music Manuscripts, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gothaischer Genealogischer Hof-Kalender and diplomatic-statistical yearbook . Vol. 96, 1859, p. 452. Adolph von Kielmannsegg (1796–1866) was finally Hanoverian ambassador to London from 1840–1866.
- ^ Notes and audio files by Karl Klingemann in the International Music Score Library Project
- ↑ Klingemann, Carl in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition
- ↑ Malwida von Meysenbug : Memoirs of an idealist. Volume 3. 6th edition. Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin et al. 1900, p. 116.
- ↑ Mendelssohn lodging receives blue plaque , BBC report from February 4, 2013, accessed on April 16, 2015.
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SURNAME | Klingemann, Karl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klingemann, Carl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil servant, diplomat and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1798 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Limmer on a leash |
DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1862 |
Place of death | London |