Romberg (family of musicians)
Romberg is the name of a branching German family of musicians who mainly worked in Münster and the surrounding area.
From the time the clarinetist Gerhard Heinrich Romberg joined the Hofkapelle Münster in 1771 until it was dissolved in 1803 , four or more Rombergs often played in this orchestra. Gerhard Heinrich Romberg and his brother Bernhard Anton Romberg, who joined the court orchestra in 1773 , on the bassoon were often referred to as "The older Romberg brothers".
Nowadays the most famous representatives of the family are the cousins Andreas Romberg ( violin virtuoso and composer) and Bernhard Romberg ( cello virtuoso and composer), who undertook concert tours through Europe under the false title "The Romberg Younger Brothers" at a young age. Both were good friends of Ludwig van Beethoven and Louis Spohr .
family members
- Balthasar Johannes Romberg (1710 or 1721–1784) - soldier, later regiment drum
- Bernhard Anton Romberg (1742-1814) - bassoonist
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Bernhard Heinrich Romberg (1767–1841) - important cellist and composer
- Bernhardine Antoinette Katharina (1803–1878) - singer
- Karl Romberg (1811–1897) - cellist and student of his father
- Anton Romberg (1771–1842) - bassoonist
- Maria Angelika Franziska Romberg (1775–1866) - soprano
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Bernhard Heinrich Romberg (1767–1841) - important cellist and composer
- Gerhard Heinrich Romberg (1745–1819) - clarinetist and conductor
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Andreas Jakob Romberg (1767–1821) - violinist and probably the most important composer of the family
- Heinrich Maria Romberg (1802-1859) - concertmaster and conductor
- Cyprian Friedrich Marianne Romberg (1807–1865) - cellist and student of Bernhard Heinrich Romberg
- Johann Balthasar Romberg (1774–1793), cellist
- Maria Theresia Franziska Romberg (1778–1847) - contralto
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Andreas Jakob Romberg (1767–1821) - violinist and probably the most important composer of the family
- Bernhard Anton Romberg (1742-1814) - bassoonist
literature
- Hans Michel Schletterer : Romberg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 104-115.
- Rebekka Fritz (Red.): “A lovable family of artists”. The Romberg family between the Münsterscher Hofkapelle and an international virtuoso career. An exhibition by the Institute for Musicology and Music Education, Department of Musicology and the University and State Library of Münster, May 7 - June 5, 2003 in the reading room of the University and State Library of Münster. University and State Library Münster, Münster 2003.
- Martin Blindow: The Romberg family of musicians. Münster's musical life between classical and early romanticism (= small writings from the Münster city archive 10). Ardey-Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-87023-187-3 .