Peter Joseph from Lindpaintner

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Peter Josef von Lindpaintner, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1837
Tomb of Peter von Lindpaintner (cemetery at the Sankt-Georgs-Kirche in Wasserburg on Lake Constance )

Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner (born December 8, 1791 in Koblenz , † August 21, 1856 in Nonnenhorn on Lake Constance ) was a German composer and conductor .

life and work

Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner worked from 1812 to 1819 as music director at the then newly founded Isartortheater in Munich . After that he was court music director in Stuttgart until his death .

When Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy visited Stuttgart in November 1831, he wrote a little later in a letter to his teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter (February 15, 1832): “I think Lindpaintner is now the best orchestra conductor in Germany; it is as if he was playing all the music with his stick ” .

During the years of its leadership, the Stuttgart Opera Orchestra became one of the most important opera orchestras in Germany. He achieved greater fame primarily through his operas , of which in particular Der Bergkönig (1825), Die Genueserin (1839) and Lichtenstein (premiered August 26, 1846 as the "Vaterländisches Festspiel") for the reopening of the Stuttgart Court Theater after the renovation; libretto: Franz Dingelstedt , based on the novel of the same name by Wilhelm Hauff ) were very popular with the public. He set Goethe's Faust I to music with a large overture, inter-act music, choirs, melodramas and songs; the text was edited by Karl Seydelmann , who directed it and took on the role of Mephisto. The production was very successful, music and text editing were demonstrably used in whole or in part in Berlin, Braunschweig, Kassel, Detmold and Munich. Even before Giuseppe Verdi , Lindpainter composed an opera based on Meyerbeer's Huguenots about the Sicilian Vespers , which was premiered in 1843 (libretto: Heribert Rau ). As further vocal works, several oratorios, masses and songs come from his pen. In addition, Lindpaintner composed symphonies, overtures , concerts , chamber music , melodramas and ballets .

Lindpaintner was a member of the Freemason Lodge Wilhelm for the rising sun in Stuttgart.

Honors

In 1844 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown . This was associated with the Württemberg personal nobility ( ennoblement ). In Stuttgart, Lindpaintnerstraße and the Stuttgart Stadtbahn stop of the same name (line U2) are named after him.

literature

  • Uwe Baur: Lindpaintner, Peter Joseph (from) . In: Ludwig Finscher (Ed.): MGG . tape 15 . Bärenreiter Verlag, 2006, Sp. 163-166 .
  • Robert Eitner:  Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 706-708.
  • Rolf Hänsler: Peter Lindpaintner as an opera composer . Dissertation Munich 1928
  • Norbert Miller:  Lindpaintner, Peter Joseph von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 614-616 ( digitized version ).
  • Reiner Nägele: Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner. His life. His work . Hans Schneider Verlag, Tutzing 1993, ISBN 978-3-7952-0745-8 .
  • Reiner Nägele (ed.): Peter von Lindpaintner - letters. Complete edition (1809-1856) . Hainholz, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-932622-24-3 (504 pages).
  • Peter von Lindpaintner: The vampire . Program 2005. Bad Aibling opera stage (original contributions by Roland Dippel), Bad Aibling 2005.

Documents

Letters from Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher C. F. Peters in the Leipzig State Archives .

Web links

Wikisource: Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antje Tumat: Faust receptions after Goethe's death. The drama music by Peter von Lindpaintner and Eduard Lassen. In: Panja Mücke and Christiane Wiesenfeldt (eds.): Faust im Wandel. Faust settings from the 19th to the 21st century. Marburg (Tectum-Verlag) 2014, pp. 76-101.
  2. ↑ Andreas Münzmay music dramaturgy and cultural transfer. A cross-genre study on the musical theater Eugène Scribes. Schliengen (Argus) 2010, pp. 447-449.
  3. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1854, p. 46.
personal data
SURNAME Lindpaintner, Peter Joseph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1856
Place of death Nonnenhorn on Lake Constance