Matthias Christoph Wiedeburg
Matthias Christoph Wiedeburg (also Wideburg) (born March 1, 1690 in Berlin ; † January 19, 1745 in Altona ) was a cantor , conductor and composer .
Life
He received his first musical instruction from his father Johann Dietrich Wiedeburg , who was the organist at the Marienkirche in Berlin . After attending two high schools, he took composition lessons from Ruggiero Fedeli and Gottfried Finger .
On April 4, 1709, he began studying philosophy and law in Frankfurt (Oder) , which he said he completed in Leipzig . In 1715, after working as a music teacher in Köthen from 1711 and from 1713 as Vice Kapellmeister in Gera , he went to Hamburg , where he can be verified as Kapellmeister at the Gänsemarkt Opera under Reinhard Keizer until spring 1722 from the end of 1718 .
For the 100th anniversary of the Hamburger Bürgerwache on August 31, 1719, he conducted his oratorio “The praise and thanks offering to the Lord of all men” and the serenade “ for the so-called jubilation meal ” in the Hamburg Drillhaus , which normally served as a parade house for the Bürgerwache. Mars and Irene in the most enjoyable connection ”to which Michael Richey wrote the lyrics. A balcony built in the ballroom was intended for 40 musicians, other musicians were on a ship on the Alster to accompany the music with timpani and trumpets. The direction of this performance was in the hands of the director of the Hamburger Ratsmusik, Hieronymus Oldenburg, his daughter Barbara, the wife of Reinhard Keiser, sang a solo part. With this so-called captain's music began a Hamburg musical tradition, which Georg Philipp Telemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach later continued.
On November 28, 1720, he was one of the candidates for a trial audition for the vacant position as organist at the Jacobikirche in Hamburg. Among the other seven candidates were Vincent Lübeck (1684–1755), son of the composer Vincent Lübeck and Johann Sebastian Bach , who, however, had to leave for Koethen on November 23, 1720 and therefore did not take part. Three of the applicants, including Wiedeburg and Lübeck, withdrew their applications in advance.
In 1722 Johann Adolf von Metsch appointed him as private secretary and organist for 3 years; according to the city address book, he lived at the horse-Marckt during this time , after which he moved from 1724 to Buxtehude for 4 years as cantor. In 1728 he was briefly active in the same activity in Bremen.
Between 1728 and 1744 he worked at the Ostfriesischer Hof in Aurich before he switched to the St. Trinitatis Church in Altona as organist, a position he was only able to carry out for barely six months until his death.
Georg Philipp Telemann described him as a talented colleague in a letter to the East Frisian court of Prince Georg Albrecht in 1728 :
"... I have known this good man's skill for a long time, and I am sure that he would have practiced it to a high degree if luck had not played him various bad antics, which would make even the most ardent soul much Would have lost heat ... "
Since 1716, Wiederburg was married to Anna Catharina Lose, daughter of the council musician Joachim Lose (* 1640; † 1724), one of their seven children was the future organist Michael Johann Friedrich Wiedeburg .
plant
- Oh! Most high your servant shall perish from your anger (solo cantata for alto and bc)
- Daphnis (cantata, Hamburg October 12, 1717)
- Musical devotion (1717)
- Constant love (1717)
- The joyful longing of the loving Sulamith (Libretto: Johann Georg Glauche , 1718)
- Cupid's Profitable Love = Journey (1719)
- Love, Joy and Devotion (1719)
- Treu is Wildpraet (1.8.1719)
- The sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving due to the Lord of all lords (1719)
- Mars and Irene in the most pleasurable relationship (1719)
- The overthrown Pharaoh or the redemption of the people of Israel from the Egyptian servitude (Libretto: Johann Georg Glauche, 1720)
- Pleasant jubilation joy (cantata for the 200th anniversary of the Confessio Augustana , Aurich 1730)
- Who believes in you o Jesus (1730)
- Encourage yourself again, troubled heart (1733)
- Long hoped for embers, but hidden flames of love (1733)
- Scene of love and joy (1733)
- Contest of love and constancy (1733)
- Bey the most delightful engagement Feyer of the most noble prince and Mr. Carol Edzards / Erb = Printzens von Ostfriessland, Mr. zu Esens, Stadesdorff and Wittmund xx: with the most noble princess and women, Sophien Wilhelminen / Margravine of Brandenburg Culmbach, Hertduchess in Prussia ... (1733)
- Bowed souls! (1734)
- Mourning Cantata at the funeral of the most noble prince and lord resting in God, Mr. Georg Albrecht, prince of East Frisia, Mr. zu Esens, Stedesdorf and Wittmund [et] c. September 22nd. 1734 (1734)
- Birthday code for Carl Edzard's wife Sophia Wilhelmina (1736)
- Employment of the eyes at the Hochfürstl. Dinner (1744)
literature
- Jürgen Neubacher: Georg Philipp Telemann's Hamburg church music and its performance conditions (1721–1767) , Olms, Hildesheim, 2009.
- Joachim Wendt: Matthias Christoph Wiedeburg (1690–1745), court composer for the Princes of East Friesland, new insights into his biography in Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies of East Friesland , issue 77, 1997, p. 68ff.
Web links
- Wiedemann's biography on music in the past and present
- Biography of Wiedemann on Osfriesische Landschaft - Regionalverband
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Kremer: "Because only freedom makes my wings bounce ...", urbanity as a framework for musical experimentation in: Berhard Jahn, Ivana Rentsch (ed.): Extravagance and business acumen, Telemann's Hamburg innovations. Waxmann, Münster and New York 2019, p. 96.
- ↑ Gisela Jaaks: Musical life in Hamburg during the baroque period in 'Hamburg Portrait', issue 8/1978, Museum for Hamburg History, 1978, Hamburg, p. 10.
- ^ Philipp Spitta: Johann Sebastian Bach , Volume 1, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig, 1873, p. 631.
- ^ Arnold Christian Beuthner: Now-living Hamburg: whatinn of the names, characters and apartments of all ... class persons ... message is given , Hamburg, 1722, p. 102.
- ^ Georg Philipp Telemann: Correspondence, all available letters from and to Telemann , Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig, 1972, p. 122f.
- ^ Jürgen Neubacher: Georg Philipp Telemann's Hamburg Church Music and its Performance Conditions (1721-1767) , Olms, Hildesheim, 2009, p. 439.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiedeburg, Matthias Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, cantor and organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1690 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1745 |
| Place of death | Altona district , Hamburg |