Nicolas-Joseph Hüllmandel

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Nicolas-Joseph Hüllmandel (born May 23, 1756 in Strasbourg , † December 19, 1823 in London ) was a French pianist, glass harmonica player and composer .

Life

Nicolas-Joseph Hüllmandel came from a family of musicians, his father Michel Hüllmandel was a violinist at the Strasbourg Cathedral , and family members on his mother's side were also professional musicians. Hüllmandel studied with Joseph Garnier and Franz Xaver Richter in Strasbourg , who were both Kapellmeister at the Münster in his childhood and youth. François-Joseph Fétis , who knew Hüllmandel personally, stated that Hüllmandel was supposed to have been a pupil of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , which is supported by the fact that Hüllmandel CPE Bach was one of the few musicians who were able to use the sound possibilities of the fortepiano properly. Several concerts in London are documented for the years 1771 and 1773 and in 1775 he lived in Milan.

At the age of around 20, shelled almond settled in Paris. There he had quick access to aristocratic circles and important private salons, as illustrated by the illustrious dedicators of his first publications, Queen Marie-Antoinette , the Baroness Talleyrand or the Duc de Guines. Hüllmandel caused a particular stir in Parisian society with the game of the glass harmonica.

George Onslow and Hyacinthe Jadin were among the most important students of Hüllmandel . After the outbreak of the revolution, Hüllmandel moved to London , losing a large fortune which he had acquired through his marriage to Camille-Aurore Ducazan. According to Fétis, who met him in Paris in 1806, he was later paid compensation for this loss, which enabled him to live a financially carefree life in England.

His son Charles Joseph Hullmandel became a well-known English lithographer . His daughter Evalina published a piano school in 1827.

Works

All of Hüllmandel's compositions were self- published in Paris before 1790 and up to and including Op. 8 , only his textbook was published in London in 1796. His works were widely distributed in the early 19th century, and they were reprinted by numerous European publishers. After 1790, Hüllmandel stopped composing, but arranged works by other composers such as Johann Christian Bach , Grétry , Giovanni Battista Viotti and François-Joseph Gossec .

  • 6 Sonates de Clavecin ou Fortepiano avec violon ad libitum op.1 (1773)
  • 1e Recueil de petit airs pour le clavecin op.2 (1773)
  • 3 Sonates pour le pianoforte et violon ad lib. op. 3 (Paris, 1777)
  • 3 Sonates pour le clavecin, dedicated to the Duke of Guines op.4 (Paris, 1777)
  • Petits airs d'und difficulté graduelle op.5 (1778)
  • 3 Sonates de Clavecin ou Fortepiano with violon ad libitum pour les deux premières et obligé pour la troisième op.6 (1782)
  • Six Divertissements ou 2e. Recueil de petits airs op.7 (1783)
  • 3 Sonates de Clavecin ou Fortepiano with violon ad libitum pour les deux premières et obligé pour la troisième op.8 (1785)
  • 3 Sonates pour le pianoforte et violon ad libitum op.10 (1788)
  • Sonate de pianoforte et violon ad libitum in G major op.11 (1788)
  • Sextet for 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos (around 1800)
  • Principes of Music, Chiefly calculatet for the Piano Forte or Harpschord, with Progressive Lessons op.12 (1796)
    • Hüllmandel wrote the article "Clavecin (harpsichord)" in the Encyclopédie méthodique by Denis Diderot

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Eitner : Biographical-Bibliographical Sources-Lexicon of Musicians and Music Scholars. Volume 5, Breitkopf & Haertel, Leipzig 1901, p. 222 ( Memento of the original dated December 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 6.69 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musik.uzh.ch
  2. ↑ Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique (1866)
personal data
SURNAME Hüllmandel, Nicolas-Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hullmandel, Nicolas-Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1823
Place of death London