Raphael Georg Kiesewetter

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Raphael Georg Kiesewetter, lithograph by Faustin Herr, 1841
Raphael Georg Kiesewetter

Raphael Georg Kiesewetter Edler von Wiesenbrunn (born August 29, 1773 in Holleschau , Moravia , † January 1, 1850 in Baden near Vienna ) was an Austrian music historian .

Life

Kiesewetter initially studied philosophy in Olomouc , but from 1792 he enrolled as a lawyer at the University of Vienna , where he began his civil service in the war chancellery in 1794 without having finished his studies. In 1811 he became court adviser to the court war council in Vienna, in 1813 and 1814 he headed the medical department, after which he remained in the civil service.

Kiesewetter had received music lessons from childhood. From 1816 - until the 1840s - he held historical lovers' concerts in his house, at which vocal music from the 16th to 18th centuries was performed. From 1814 he was a member of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna and its vice-president from 1821 to 1843. In this function he had a great influence on concert life in Vienna.

Its real importance lies in the field of musicology . Kiesewetter owned a large collection of scores of old musical works (today in the Austrian National Library ). He wrote numerous fundamental works on European music history from antiquity to the 19th century, as well as on the music of the Near East .

With a diploma dated July 30, 1843, Kiesewetter was raised to the status of Austrian-Hereditary nobility with the title “Edler von Wiesenbrunn”. In 1845 he retired and in April 1848 retired to Baden near Vienna, where he died in 1850.

In 1887 Kiesewettergasse in Vienna- Favoriten (10th district) was named after him.

family

Kiesewetter's sister Charlotte Caroline, an accomplished pianist, was the mother of August Wilhelm Ambros . He himself was with Jakobine, born in Heidelberg . Cavallo (1773–1843) married. Their daughter Irene Kiesewetter (1811–1872) was a valued pianist and belonged to Franz Schubert's circle of friends , who dedicated the cantata D 936 to her.

Fonts

  • History of European-Occidental or our contemporary music. Presentation of their origin, their growth and their gradual development; from the first century of Christianity to our present time , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1834 (reprint Sendet-Reprint, Vaduz 1986, ISBN 978-3253024672 and Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-23754-8 ) - 2nd edition, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1846 ( digitized version )
  • About the music of the modern Greeks and free thoughts about ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek music , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1838 ( digitized version )
  • Guido of Arezzo . His life and work , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1840 ( digitized version )
  • The fate and nature of secular song from the early Middle Ages to the invention of the dramatic style and the beginnings of the opera , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1841 ( digitized version )
  • The music of the Arabs , based on original sources by RG Kiesewetter, accompanied by a foreword by Freiherr v. Hammer-Purgstall , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1842 ( digitized version )
  • The new Aristoxen scattered essays on the error of musical arithmetic and the vainness of their temperature calculations , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1846 ( digitized version )
  • Catalog of the collection of early music of the Imperial Court Councilor Raphael Georg Kiesewetter , Vienna: Mechitharisten 1847 ( digitized version )
  • Gallery of the old contrapunctists, a selection from their works , Vienna 1847 ( digitized version )
  • About the Octave of Pythagoras . Vienna 1848. (= Appendix to The New Aristoxene ... )

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Kiesewetter, Raphael Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician, musicologist, Vice-President of the Vienna Society of Music Friends
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Holleschau , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1850
Place of death Baden near Vienna