Johann Heinrich Tobler

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Memorial stone for Johann Heinrich Tobler on the Vögelinsegg

Johann Heinrich Tobler (born January 14, 1777 in Trogen AR ; † February 16, 1838 in Speicher AR ) was a Swiss poet and composer. He became known for his setting of the “Ode to God” by Caroline Rudolphi , which was used as a regional parish song until the Landsgemeinde in Appenzell Ausserrhoden was abolished and is still sung in Appenzell Innerrhoden on official occasions.

Life

Johann Heinrich Tobler experienced a poor youth. After an apprenticeship as a weaver, he learned the trade of model engraver . Tobler was married twice, his first wife died in 1820 at the age of 40. Four children from his first marriage and a son from his second wife's first marriage survived childhood. From 1792 he was a model engraver in Speicher, later secretary of the Teufen district court , land clerk , state ensign and accountant for a fire insurance company. With Gabriel Rüsch from Speicher, he founded the first Appenzell reading society in 1820 and was a member and founding member of various choral societies in the Appenzellerland and St. Gallen . Tobler was best known as a composer, editor of song collections and as a poet.

The originally nine-strophic poem "To God" by Caroline Rudolphi begins with the words "All life flows out of you". It was edited by Johann Friedrich Reichardt around 1780 and set to music three times, the first time in 1787 by Johann Georg Witthauer , a student of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach . The second setting was made by Johann Adam Hiller , who published the work in 1790 in his publication Religious odes and songs by the best German poets with melodies to sing on the piano . In 1825 the poem was printed by Johann Heinrich Tobler under the title "Ode an Gott", reduced to four stanzas, set to music a third time and sung for the first time by a rural community in 1838, two months after Tobler's death . From 1877 to 1997, when the Landsgemeinde in Appenzell Ausserrhoden was abolished, it served as the official Landsgemeindelied there, but it wasn't until the second half of the 20th century that Caroline Rudolphi's name was printed on the sheet of music on the back of the Rules of Procedure for the Landsgemeinde.

Works

  • Singing songs in social circles, 1807 (expanded edition until 1828)
  • Brief regent and regional history of the canton of Appenzell of the outer Rhodes, within the years 1597 to 1797, 1813 (2nd edition 1824)
  • Landsgemeinde-Lieder, 1835
  • Twelve songs for four male voices, by Swiss poets, 1837

reception

music
  • Rudolf Lutz : Landsgemeindekantata. Choral cantata on the song «All life flows out of you», for vocal ensemble, transverse flute, oboe I + II, corno, bassoon, strings and basso continuo. Libretto by Karl Graf. World premiere on April 27, 2018 in Trogen.

literature

  • Albrecht Tunger: Johann Heinrich Tobler. 1989. (with catalog raisonné)
  • RISM CH
  • T. Fuchs et al .: Appenzellerland culture trail. 2007, p. 78 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the concert ( memento of the original from July 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the JS Bach Foundation , accessed on July 28, 2018 (incl. program booklet) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bachstiftung.ch
  2. ^ Introduction to the work on the JS Bach Foundation's YouTube channel, accessed on July 28, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Tobler, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss poet and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Trogen AR
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1838
Place of death Memory AR