Ludwig Samuel Dietrich Mutzenbecher

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Ludwig Samuel Dietrich Mutzenbecher (born February 4, 1766 in Bordeaux , † May 23, 1838 in Altona ) was a doctor , postmaster and musician .

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Ludwig Samuel Dietrich was the son of Samuel Dietrich Mutzenbecher. His father worked as a businessman in Hamburg. In 1769 he came to Altona, where he grew up with his aunt Johanne Elisabeth Rode. In 1784 he began studying medicine at the University of Göttingen , which he continued from 1787 at the University of Copenhagen and later at the University of Kiel . After receiving his doctorate in medicine at Kiel University in 1790, he returned to Altona. Here he initially worked as a resident doctor. An eye problem prompted him to give up the practice, to open a book and music shop in 1796 and to apply for the post of postmaster for Altona, which he received in 1800. From 1828 Mutzenbecher was a Danish judiciary .

At the suggestion of Mutzenbecher, the musical amateur association was founded in Altona in 1819 . Mutzenbecher, who lived on Langen Strasse (today's Dosenstrasse), financed a “Tonhalle” in 1822 that was to be used for concerts. There, on July 2, 1824, the 100th birthday of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was lavishly celebrated. In the following years the interest in this club decreased. From 1819 to 1837 Mutzenbecher published the invitation and relationship sheets for the Altona musical amateur association . The works were important for contemporary music culture. His friend Carl Braun founded the Mutzenbecher choral society after Mutzenbecher died .

The writing Reports and attachments concerning the work of the Special Committee in support of the evicted Hamburgers in Altona from 1814, which is often attributed to Mutzenbecher, was created by the relative Johann Daniel Mutzenbecher, who was the committee's secretary.

Mutzenbecher brokered the purchase of the important musical collection of the Schwerin organist Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal by the Belgian music bibliographer François-Joseph Fétis , through whom it came to the library of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in Brussels.

Compositions

  • Spring flowers. 1806
  • Song collections
  • Solomonic songs by Tiedge.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Leisinger , Peter Wollny : The Bach sources of the libraries in Brussels. Catalog. With a presentation of the tradition and significance of the Westphal, Fétis and Wagener collections (= Leipzig contributions to Bach research. Vol. 2). Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1997, ISBN 3-487-10303-6
personal data
SURNAME Mutzenbecher, Ludwig Samuel Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Doctor, postmaster and musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1838
Place of death Altona