Samuel Rudolph Behr

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Title page from Well-
founded Tantz-Kunst
1709

Samuel Rudolph Behr (also Bär or Beer) (baptized July 1, 1670 in Leipzig ; † after 1716) was a German dance master and composer .

Life

Behr was the son of the Leipzig musician Martin Behr. He enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the summer of 1691 , but did not obtain a degree. He belonged to the university nation of Meissen . On September 4, 1691 he married Barbara Christina Valentin, the youngest daughter of a painter and chief of the painters' guild. Of the four children that emerged from this marriage, only Gottfried Rudolph, who was baptized on March 24, 1702 in the Nikolaikirche, survived. Between 1701 and 1716 it is recorded in the Leipzig address books.

In 1703 he published the guide to a well-founded dance art , which was followed by three more books. He maintained close contacts with the Leipzig Opera am Brühl . For example, he wrote the ballet interludes for the opera Otto 1702. He also wrote ballet interludes for the opera Telemaque , which was performed at the Naumburg opera house in front of Salztor in 1706 (in literature, he is often confused with the composer Johann Beer , who was dead 6 years at the time) .

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Title copper from Instructions
for Dance Art 1703

He was in contact with Georg Philipp Telemann , Pantaleon Hebenstreit , Nicolaus Adam Strungk and Johann Kuhnau . The dance master Gottfried Taubert , who published the book Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, or Thorough Explanation of the French Tantz Art , in Leipzig in 1717 , was probably influenced by Behr's publications.

plant

  • Guide to a well-founded dance art. Heydler, Leipzig 1703.
  • Other part of the Tantz art, or sifted crickets. Heydler, Leipzig 1703.
  • Well-founded Tantz art. Joh.Heinichens widow, Leipzig, 1709.
  • L'Art de bien dancer or the art of dancing. Fulde, Leipzig 1713.

literature

  • Stephanie Schroedter: From "Affect" to "Action": Source studies on the poetics of dance art from the late Ballet de Cour to the early Ballet en Action. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, p. 13 ff.
  • Hanna Walsdorf, Marie-Thérèse Mourey, Tilden Russell (eds.): Taubert's “Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister” (Leipzig 1717): Contexts - Readings - Practices. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2019, p. 47ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanna Walsdorf, Marie-Thérèse Mourey, Tilden Russell (ed.): Taubert's "Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister" (Leipzig 1717) Frank & Timme, Berlin, 2019, p. 80.
personal data
SURNAME Behr, Samuel Rudolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bear, Samuel Rudolph; Beer Samuel Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dance master
DATE OF BIRTH baptized July 1, 1670
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH after 1716