Louis Pape
Louis Pape , also Ludwig Pape , actually Johann Christian Ludwig Pape (born May 14, 1799 in Lübeck , † January 9, 1855 in Bremen ) was a German cellist and composer .
Life
Louis Pape was the second son of the council musician Johann August Pape (1761–1838) and his wife Anna Engel, born in Parchim . Westphal (1770-1842). In 1818 he was horn player in the hunter company of the Lübeck civil military . In 1821 he went to Leipzig with his 15-year-old brother Wilhelm (1806–1881) and found a job in the Gewandhaus Orchestra . He moved on to Vienna , to Dresden to Carl Maria von Weber and to Berlin to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . In 1827 he composed a (not preserved) double quartet out of admiration for Louis Spohr .
In 1835 he became a city musician in Lübeck. He was the cellist in the well-known quartet of Gottfried Herrmann . In 1842 he moved to Bremen, where his 1st symphony ( military symphony ) was performed in the winter of 1840/41 . Grand Duchess Cäcilie von Oldenburg arranged for him to be appointed court composer in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) in 1843 , where his brother Christoph Nikolaus Carl Pape (1803-1854) was Kapellmeister . From 1845 he has repeatedly worked as a cellist in the Bremen private orchestra . From Bremen, Pape traveled to Vienna , Amsterdam and Rotterdam . As a member of a Berlin salon band, he played in coffee houses for a while. Further trips took him to Paris and Frankfurt am Main . He returned to Lübeck around 1851 and married Magdalene Catharina Elisabeth, born in 1852. Voigt. Shortly afterwards he received another engagement as a cellist in Bremen.
The Oldenburg director Reinhard Ludwig Karl Gustav von Dalwigk (1818–1897) described him in his chronicle of the old theater in Oldenburg : a very talented musician who unfortunately perished because of the belief that pubs are also a part of genius.
The Pape brothers were friends with Emanuel Geibel and were part of the musical evenings in the Nölting houses at Johannisstrasse 20 and in Krempelsdorf. Louis Pape is said to have been the inspiration for Geibel's poem Ein Lustger Musikante after 1840, which was widely distributed through its inclusion in the Allgemeine Deutsche Kommersbuch .
The Lübeck Museum Behnhaus is keeping a portrait lithograph from Papes.
Works
- Overture The time 1839 is fleeting
- 7 symphonies
- 3 string quartets
- Quintet in D
- Elegy for clarinet Lament for Kolmar
- Songs (including by Geibel)
literature
- Robert Eitner : Pape, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 139 f.
- Carl Stiehl : Lübeckisches Tonkünstlerlexikon. Leipzig: Hesse 1887 ( digitized version ), p. 14
- Johann Hennings: Lübeck's music history I: The secular music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1951, p. 99
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ so after Hennings (lit.); ADB (lit.) incorrectly has 1809
- ^ Louis Spohr: autobiography. Volume 1, Kassel 1860, p. 162
- ^ Wilhelm Stahl : Gottfried Herrmann. Leipzig 1939, p. 20
- ^ Klaus Blum: Musikfreunde und Musici: Musical life in Bremen since the Enlightenment. Bremen: Schneider 1975, p. 221
- ↑ Reinhard von Dalwigk: Chronicle of the old theater in Oldenburg (1833 to 1881): Festschrift for the opening of the newly built theater on October 8, 1881. Oldenburg: Schulze 1881, p. 84
- ↑ Hennings (Lit), p. 99, note 128 with reference to the memoirs of Souchay; Carl Conrad Theodor Litzmann: Emanuel Geibel. from memories, letters and diaries . Wilhelm Hertz, Berlin 1887 digitized , pp. 59–61
- ↑ The Lübeckers in portrait 1780-1930. Lübeck: Museums for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1973, p. 71, No. 261
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pape, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pape, Johann Christian Ludwig (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1855 |
| Place of death | Bremen |