Nikolaus Ferdinand Auberlen

Nikolaus Ferdinand Auberlen (born March 11, 1755 in Kirchheim unter Teck , † 1828 in Fellbach ) was a Württemberg musician and composer .

The son of the Kirchheim schoolmaster Johann Friedrich Auberlen had worked as a provisional assistant to his uncle, the musician and composer Georg Daniel Auberlen , at the Fellbach School from 1779 . Elected as his successor by the community after his death in 1784, Auberlen married his cousin Marie Auberlen. As a schoolmaster, he taught according to the pedagogical methods of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi .

Like his uncle, Auberlen played the piano , organ and violin and taught talented young people and prospective teachers at the music school his uncle founded. Cantatas by Georg Philipp Telemann , choral movements by Johann Sebastian Bach and the Messiah by Georg Friedrich Handel were performed by the students. Auberlen's most important student was the later composer Friedrich Silcher , who learned to play the organ with him.

Grave in the old cemetery in Fellbach

From 1812 Auberlen was allowed to train his youngest son Wilhelm Amandus as a school manager. Because of his sickness, the son was his administrator from 1821. In 1826 Nikolaus Ferdinand Auberlen received one of the six singing prizes awarded by the King of Württemberg for his musical achievements. Auberlen died after 44 years in the school service, his son Wilhelm Amandus Auberlen was his successor.

literature

• Fellbach. Home book of the large district town at the gates of Stuttgart . Fellbach 1958 ( online edition ).
• Otto Borst: Fellbach, a Swabian city history . Stuttgart 1990.

Web links

• Auberlen secondary school in Fellbach
• The Auberlen family in Fellbach
• Eppinger's description of Fellbach
• School and schoolmaster in Fellbach
• 400 years of school in Fellbach