Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff

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Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff.

Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff (born November 26, 1744 in Erlangen , † April 26, 1785 in Ansbach ) was a German poet , actor, composer, director and singer.

origin

About the ancestors on the paternal side of Karl Siegmund (also Sigmund Karl) Reichsfreiherrn von Seckendorff-Aberdar :

  • The father was Wilhelm Johann Friedrich Reichsfreiherr von Seckendorff-Aberdar, on Markt Sugenheim, Unternzenn etc. (1708–1770); Imperial Real Secret Council, Brandenburg-Kulmbach-Bayreuth Minister, Knight Captain of the Canton Steigerwald.
  • The grandfather was Christoph Friedrich Baron von Seckendorff-Aberdar (1679–1759), on Markt Sugenheim, Unternzenn; Brandenburg-Ansbach Minister.
  • The great-grandfather was Christoph Sigmund Baron von Seckendorff-Aberdar (1629–1710), on Markt Sugenheim, Obern- und Unternehmerzenn etc .; Imperial real councilor, knight captain of the canton Altmühl.
  • The great-great-grandfather was Georg Albrecht Baron von Seckendorr-Aberdar (1594–1632), on Markt Sugenheim, Obern- und Unterstzenn etc.

Life

Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff-Aberdar went into Austrian service in 1759 and remained there until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763. He then moved as a captain to the royal Sardinian army, where he rose to lieutenant colonel before leaving the army for health reasons and in Saxon-Weimar services entered.

Seckendorff possessed - possibly due to his visit to the Bayreuth Academy of the Arts - knowledge of harmony and composition as well as piano, violin and cello playing. Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar therefore appointed him Chamberlain and "Directeur des plaisirs" in 1775

In Weimar S. belonged to the society of the Duchess Amalia . There he met the circle around Goethe , who came to Weimar at the same time. With his talent for poetry and music, equipped with rich life experience and a varied education, he was able to make his own contribution. He wrote for the German Merkur , provided translations and published an opera in 1779: “Superba”; in the same year he married Sophie von Kalb.

In 1784 he switched to Prussian service and became an authorized minister and Prussian envoy to the Frankish imperial circle , based in Ansbach . There he died of pulmonary tuberculosis on April 26, 1785, before taking up his post .

His wife Sophie, b. von Kalb, went on an educational trip to Italy with Johann Gottfried Herder and Johann Friedrich Hugo von Dalberg after his death in 1788/89 .

Works

  • Superba , Singspiel (Weim. 1779)
  • The wheel of fate or the history of Lake Tchoan-gsee (Dessau and Leipzig 1783) ( digitized version )
  • Kalliste , tragedy (that. 1783),

He also published three collections of folk and other songs (Weimar 1779 to 1782).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Embach. Joscelyn Godwin: Johann Friedrich Hugo von Dalberg (1760-1812). Writer - musician - canon . Mainz: Ges.f. Middle Rhine. Church history 1998, p. 172 note 4
  2. ↑ Embach / Godwin, Dalberg, p. 172, note 4

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personal data
SURNAME Seckendorff, Karl Siegmund von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, actor, composer, director and singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1785
Place of death Ansbach