Schuncke (family of musicians)

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Schuncke (also: Schunke ) is a German family of musicians who have descended from important horn players and other musicians since the 18th century.

family

Ancestor was the master baker Johann Gottfried Schuncke in Schkortleben near the Saalestadt Weißenfels , who played dance as a sideline and trained his seven sons musically. Five of them became successful horn players.

  • Johann Gottfried Schuncke (1742–1807)
    • Johann Gottfried Schuncke (1777–1861), horn player in Kassel and Stuttgart
      • Christian Louis / Ludwig Schuncke (1810–1834), pianist and composer in Paris and Leipzig
      • Michael Friedrich Ernst Schuncke (1812–1876), horn player in Stuttgart
        • Emma Schuncke (1853–1946) piano teacher and educator in England and Stuttgart; through marriage to Adolph Oetinger in Crailsheim (family archive destroyed in an air raid in 1945)
        • Julius Schuncke (1855–1922), chemistry professor in Ludwigshafen and Baden-Baden
        • Wilhelm Schuncke (1857–1933), manufacturer in Dittersdorf and Dresden ( Villa Fliederhof )
          • Ernst Schuncke (1888–1970), manufacturer, ibid
            • Gottfried Michael Schuncke (* 1929), music historian and administrator of the archival heritage
      • Gustav Schuncke (1814–1849), pianist and pastor in Northern Württemberg
      • Elise Wilhelmine Emilie Schuncke (1818–1888), pianist
      • August Adolph Schuncke (1820–1881), cellist and composer in Geneva
      • Johann Gottfried Hugo Schuncke (1823–1909), royal court violinist in Stuttgart
      • Sophie Marie Schuncke (1827–1902), educator and piano teacher in Switzerland, France and England
      • Anna Auguste Julie Schuncke (1831–1911), educator and piano teacher in England and France, later in Tübingen
      • August Gottlieb Emil Schuncke (1833–1887), merchant and French horn player in Stuttgart and Strasbourg
      • Luise Caroline Henriette “Jettchen” Schuncke (1837–1919), educator and piano teacher in England and France, later in Stuttgart
    • Johann Michael Schuncke (1778–1821), horn player in Kassel and Stuttgart
      • Carl / Charles Schuncke (1801–1839), royal court pianist in Paris
      • Auguste Schuncke, educator and piano teacher in Stuttgart
    • Johann Andreas Schuncke (1780–1849), horn player in Berlin
      • Julius Schuncke (1808–?), Royal horn player in Berlin, later actor
      • Carl Schuncke (1811–1879), royal horn player in Berlin
      • Hermann Schuncke (1825–1898), royal horn player in Berlin, later piano teacher and composer in Dresden
    • Friedrich Schuncke (1784–?), Economist in Weißenfels
    • Gottlob Schuncke (1790–?), Economist in Weißenfels
    • Johann Christoph Schuncke (1791–1856), horn player in Karlsruhe
    • Johann Gotthilf Schuncke (1797 – after 1840), horn player in Stockholm

literature

  • Joachim Draheim: The Schuncke family of musicians and their work in south-west Germany: "... a strange family in the music world" . In: Tonkünstlerverband Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Tonkünstler-forum (TKF) . tape 57 , December 2008, p. 2–7 ( pp. 4–9 [PDF; 10.5 MB ]).
  • Michael Schuncke (Ed.): Family tree of the Schuncke family of musicians . Fischer and Partner, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-926435-24-5  ( formally incorrect ) .
  • Michael Schuncke: Introduction to the exhibition “The Schunckes, a Strange Family in the Music World, from the Baroque to the Present” . Fischer and Partner, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-926435-19-4 .
  • Robert Eitner :  Schunke . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 61-64.
  • Schunke (family) . In: Gustav Schilling (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences, or Universal Lexicon of Tonkunst . Sixth volume. Franz Heinrich Köhler, Stuttgart 1840, p. 284-288 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Wolf: The legacy of the Schunckes. In: Saxon newspaper . December 23, 2013, p. 3 , accessed July 9, 2015 .