Nordkirchen music collection

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The Nordkirchen Music Collection has been part of the University and State Library of Münster ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) since 1991 .

The collection complements the Fürst zu Bentheimsche Musikaliensammlung Burgsteinfurt and the Fürstlich zu Bentheim-Tecklenburgische Musikbibliothek Rheda , both of which are managed as loans by the library.

history

Nordkirchen Castle

The music collection Nordkirchen in 1991 on the Antiquarian market for the University and State Library of Münster acquired. The 154 manuscripts and 165 prints complement the Fürst zu Bentheimsche Musikaliensammlung Burgsteinfurt and the Fürstlich zu Bentheim-Tecklenburgische Musikbibliothek Rheda , both of which have been on loan from the library since the 1960s . From it some insights into the musical life of the Westphalian nobility in the 18th century can be derived. The music inventory from Schloss Nordkirchen has to be associated with Count Franz Joseph von Plettenberg (1714–1779).

Quite a few music manuscripts and printed music point to a connection between the Nordkirchen court and the Bonn court orchestra of Elector Clemens August von Wittelsbach (r. 1723–1761) and his successors. How the notes got to Nordkirchen is completely unclear. There are no famous composer names that distinguish this part of the collection from the Electorate of Cologne . The relationship is documented to Bonn by a handwritten traditional Harpsichord - Sonata by Italian Andrea Lucchesi (1741-1801), which explicitly on the title page as court conductor of the Cologne electors and the Bishop of Muenster is called. The not yet identified Valerio Valenti, director and repetitor of the ballets in Bonn, dedicated his harpsichord sonata to Countess Plettenberg (1718–1796).

A no less interesting part of the music inventory comes from Vienna and was probably collected by Count Franz Joseph during his years in Vienna. It is unknown for what purpose the Count created this collection; they are works for a full orchestra , and it can hardly be assumed that they were ever performed in Nordkirchen, as there was no appropriate performance apparatus there. Among the manuscripts from Vienna, works by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787) deserve special attention , including two ballet pantomimes Le Festin de Piere ou Don Juan and Alexandre et Roxane . The latter has so far only been known from sources from non-Vienna origins. The Nordkirchen manuscript is therefore of primary importance.

Castle from Ketteler to Harkotten

A third, younger layer in the Nordkirchen collection dates from around 1780 to around 1820. Count Franz Joseph's son, Count Clemens August von Plettenberg (1742–1771), was with Maria Anna Alexandrina, nee. Baroness von Galen (1752-1829) was married. After the early death of her first husband, the widow entered into a second marriage in 1778 with Clemens August Anton von Ketteler zu Harkotten (1751-1815). These names - Galen , Plettenberg and Ketteler - appear again and again on the manuscripts and prints as ownership notes. It becomes clear that the collection was initially set up in Nordkirchen, then came to Harkotten with the new marriage and was maintained and expanded there. The music level on Harkotten was quite demanding around 1800. The Haydn student Ignaz Pleyel seems to have enjoyed a preference . But the existence of the two large complete editions of Haydn and Mozart , which were published by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig , indicates a broad interest in music.

In Nordkirchen, too, music continued to be part of the everyday pastime, even if only marginally. When the waltz and the Länders became fashionable in the 1830s, Countess Marie von Plettenberg (1809–1861, married von Esterházy de Galántha) acquired appropriate piano music . The note stock of Nordkirchen and Castle Harkotten expanded our knowledge of the musical life of the moated castles of the Münsterland , particularly in view of its complex composition considerably.

All works in the Nordkirchen Music Collection have been entered in the RISM international music repertory .

See also

literature

  • Joachim Domp: Studies on the history of music at Westphalian aristocratic courts in the 18th century. Freiburg studies in musicology, Regensburg 1934.
  • Klaus Hortschansky : Music for North Churches - Music for North Churches. In: Music at Westphalian Adelshöfe, Münster 1995, pp. 25–31.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Musiksammlung Nordkirchen Retrieved February 2, 2020