Philipp Cuno Christian von Bassewitz

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Philipp Cuno Christian von Bassewitz

Philipp Cuno Christian von Bassewitz (born October 5, 1722 in Lühburg ; † May 12, 1769 in Woltow ) was a privy councilor and court marshal in the Principality of Bayreuth and chief director of the margravial opera .

family

He came from the Wendish, today counts, line of the old Mecklenburg family Bassewitz . His parents were conference councilor Ludolph Friedrich von Bassewitz and Sibilla von Bassewitz, a sister of Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz . His brothers were Joachim Ludolf von Bassewitz and Henning Adam von Bassewitz .

Live and act

On December 1, 1738, he enrolled for the winter semester at the University of Rostock . He married a woman from Preen . With her he had at least one daughter who was married to the Dutch general Kurt Heinrich Graf von Callenberg . In addition to the Mecklenburg estates Duckwitz and Woltow, he owned the Kunkellehen Kowalz and Repnitz . The latter was sold by his wife after his feudal cousins ​​paid off.

In 1745 he went to Bayreuth as chamberlain to Margravine Wilhelmine (1709–1758) . There he held the offices of castle captain , court marshal , thigh and envoy at the Reichstag in Regensburg . On March 15, 1761, Margrave Friedrich appointed him privy councilor . As chief director of the margravial opera, he created a contemporary German adaptation of the opera L'Huomo by Margravine Wilhelmine (French libretto), which was performed in 1754 on the occasion of Frederick the Great's visit to Bayreuth . He was the bearer of the Grand Cross of the Red Eagle Order . In addition, in 1755 in Mecklenburg, as the owner of Woltow, he was one of the signatories of the Land Constitutional Compensation of Heredities .

Works

  • German libretto: The human being: a singing play with dances, which is to be performed / made by ... Mrs. Marggräfin Friderike Sophie Wilhelmine on the orders of the most noble ruling rule in Brandenburg-Culmbach in the current year 1754. on the great prince's show stage in Bayreuth to Brandenburg-Culmbach [etc]. ...; Translated into German by PCC von Bassevitz, Hochfürstlich-Bayreuthischen Cammerherrn, Schloßhauptmann and Senior Director of the Opera. Bayreuth: printed by ... Friederich Elias Dietzel [1754?]
Digitized French / German , Rostock University Library

literature

  • Adolph Graf von Bassewitz: From the life of the Reich Count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz with some news about the Bassewitz family of the Wendish line. o. O., 1859, pages 53-54, with reference to the “v. Oertzen-Roggowsche Archive "
  • Sabine Henze-Döhring : The musical composition of the opera L'Huomo. In: Thomas Betzwieser (ed.): Opera concepts between Berlin and Bayreuth. The musical theater of the Margravine Wilhelmine. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016. pp. 167–194.

See also

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Henze Döhring: The musical composition of the opera L'Huomo, p.1, fn. 3 Uni Marburg
  2. ^ Adolph Graf von Bassewitz: From the life of the imperial count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz with some news about the Bassewitz family of the Wendish line. o. O., 1859, p. 54.
  3. ↑ Registration at the University of Rostock in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ^ Continued new genealogical-historical news of the most distinguished events that happened at the European courts. 13 (1763), p. 341
personal data
SURNAME Bassewitz, Philipp Cuno Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Privy councilor and court marshal in the Principality of Bayreuth and chief director of the margravial opera
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Luehburg
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1769
Place of death Woltow