Sigismund von Neukomm

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Sigismund von Neukomm

Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm (born July 10, 1778 in Salzburg , Prince Archbishopric of Salzburg , † April 3, 1858 in Paris ) was a composer , pianist , diplomat , freemason . Metternich was temporarily investigating Neukomm for alleged espionage activities .

Life

Neukomm was the oldest child of the school teacher David Neukomm and his wife Kordula, nee. Rieder. Young Neukomm was able to read fluently at the age of four and write at the age of five, and his father provided this early childhood education. A short time later he received music lessons from the Salzburg cathedral organist Franz Xaver Weissauer . At the age of six he is said to have already played the organ, with Weissauer operating the pedal. But he also practiced on string and wind instruments. Neukomm received lessons in harmony from Michael Haydn , whose wife Maria Magdalena was related to Neukomm's mother. At the age of 16 he was appointed titular organist at the Salzburg University Church; he earned his own money for the first time. A short time later he worked as a répétiteur at the Salzburg Theater. Neukomm went to Vienna in March 1797 at the age of 19 .

On the recommendation of Michael Haydn, Neukomm first became a student and then a close collaborator of Joseph Haydn . Haydn apparently valued the musical abilities of his student. He entrusted Neukomm with the preparation of piano reductions of his two oratorios The Creation and The Seasons an and Neukomm reworked the oratorio Il Ritorno di Tobia at Haydn's request and composed arrangements of Scottish songs for him. During the seven years in Vienna from 1797 to 1804 Neukomm gave piano and singing lessons. His most famous students were Anna Milder-Hauptmann and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart , known as Wolfgang Amadeus the Younger.

The tombstone donated by Neukomm for Joseph Haydn

Neukomm was a great admirer of Mozart . As an encore to Mozart's Requiem , he set the responsory Libera me to music , which is sung during absolution and which is missing in the commonly played version by Mozart- Süßmayr , as it does not belong to the liturgical texts of the Missa pro defunctis . Neukomm donated Joseph Haydn's tombstone and provided it with a five-part riddle on Horace's ambiguous words non omnis moriar .

Neukomm was active in many countries around the world. He was Kapellmeister in Saint Petersburg from 1804 to 1808 , in Paris in 1809 resident pianist with Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord and from 1816 to 1821 Kapellmeister at the imperial court of John VI. in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil . In memory of this, he became the namesake of chair no. 6 of the Academia Brasileira de Música in Rio in 1945 . Most of the time, however, he lived in Paris. After 1820 he traveled to France, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Great Britain.

His works were heard at the solemn entry of King Louis XVIII. in Paris after the victory over Napoleon , as well as on the commemoration of Louis XVI, who was executed on the scaffold in 1793 . during the Congress of Vienna in January 1815. In gratitude, the King of France appointed him Knight of the Legion of Honor , a title of which Neukomm was proud and which from then on he had printed on the title pages of his compositions. In 1842 he held in Salzburg at the unveiling of the first public monument to Mozart a speech and had the musical direction of the celebrations held. In 1837 he unveiled the Gutenberg monument and conducted a choir and orchestra ensemble of almost 500 instrumentalists.

His musical oeuvre comprises over 1,300 compositions, including ten operas, three oratorios , sacred music and songs in various languages. He never got to know his great role model Mozart , but he was the harpsichord teacher of his son Carl Thomas Mozart . Neukomm based his music on that of his role models, but still managed to be innovative. Neukomm is little known today.

Sigismund von Neukomm died on April 3, 1858 at the age of 80 in Paris.

Honors

In 1930 the “Neukommweg” in Vienna- Hietzing and in 1935 the “Neukommgasse” in Salzburg was named after him.

Works

  • Grand Septuor de Beethoven. Arrangée pour Piano et Orgue expressif Par le Chevalier Sigismond Neukomm Op. 38th Prize: 12th Paris, chez M.me Ve Cavaux, Editeur de Musique Religieuse, Rue Ste Appoline, 15th publisher no. 1087 CC (1844).
  • Duo Concertante pour Orgue Expressif et Piano. Par (Sigismond) new comm. (Paris, probably as above: Cavaux n.d.), publisher no. CC 628.
  • Christ's Entombment , oratorio - manuscript in the Cantu library, www.cantu-bib.de

Discography (excerpt)

  • 9 Grandes Etudes for organ, from: 25 Grandes Etudes; Erik Feller, organ. Label Arion ARN 68586, 2002.
  • Grande Sinfonie héroique op. 19 + Fantasias for large orchestra op. 9 & NV 41; Dramatic fantasy about passages from John Milton's " Paradise Lost ": cpo No. 4096743, 2010. Cologne Academy
  • Piano Concerto in C major op. 12 + Fantasy in C minor op. 11 for large orchestra; Scena composta per la Signora Hunnius; Cantata "Arianna a Naxos". Cologne Academy, label "Ars".
  • Messe de Requiem, suivie d'un marche funèbre. Cantareunion Vocal Ensemble, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire , 2008. Label K617.
  • Missa Solemnis per The Acclamationis Johannis VI. op. 150. La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire , 2009. Label K617.

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Neukomm, Sigismund Ritter von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 20th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1869, pp. 258–262 ( digitized version ).
  • Robert Eitner :  Neukomm, Sigismund . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 513-516.
  • Ernst Hintermaier:  Neukomm, Sigismund. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 131 ( digitized version ).
  • Rudolph Angermüller : Sigismund Neukomm. Catalog raisonné, autobiography, relationship to his contemporaries (= musicological writings. Volume 4). Katzbichler, Munich / Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-87397-103-8 .
  • Ulrich Konrad : Sigismund von Neukomm: Libera me, Domine in D minor, NV 186. A contribution to the liturgical completion of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart's Requiem in D minor, KV 626 . In: In the service of the sources for music. Gertraut Haberkamp on her 65th birthday. Edited by the Bischöfliche Zentralbibliothek Regensburg by Paul Mai, Tutzing 2002, pp. 425–434.
  • Luciane Beduschi: Survivance du canon énigmatique au début du XIXe siècle. Le cas de Sigismund Neukomm . In: Katelijne Schiltz, Bonnie J. Blackburn (Ed.): Canons and canonic techniques, 14th – 16th centuries. Theory, practice, and reception history. Proceedings of the International Conference, Leuven, 4-6 October 2005 (= Analysis in context. Volume 1). Peeters, Leuven 2007, ISBN 978-90-429-1681-4 .
  • Luciane Beduschi: Sigismund Neukomm (1778-1858). Sa vie, son œuvre, ses canons énigmatiques . Dissertation. Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris 2008.
  • Otto Biba : Sigismund Neukomm. An Austrian composer at the Brazilian court in Rio de Janeiro . In: Music sheets of the Vienna Philharmonic . Volume 56 (2002), Volume 9. pp. 321-330.
  • Antonio Alexandre Bispo: The Missa Solemnis sub titulo Sancti Francisci by Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm (1820) . In: Leichlinger Musikforum . Volume 3 (1984), pp. 21-78.
  • Antonio Alexandre Bispo: Um marco nas relações musicais entre a Áustria eo Brasil . (1984). In: -, Harald Hülskath (Ed.): Brasil / Europa & musicologia. Aulas, conferências e discursos (...) . Anais de ciencia musical. ABE - Akademie Brasil-Europa, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-934520-00-6 , pp. 394–396 (text partly in Portuguese, partly in German).
  • Antonio Alexandre Bispo: O 'Espírito de Mozart' eo Brasil . (1991). In: -, Harald Hülskath (Ed.): Brasil / Europa & musicologia. Aulas, conferências e discursos (...) . Anais de ciencia musical. ABE - Akademie Brasil-Europa, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-934520-00-6 , pp. 413-423 (text partly in Portuguese, partly in German).
  • Vincenzo Cernicchiaro: Storia della musica nel Brasile dai tempi coloniali sino ai nostri giorni (1549–1925) . Fratelli Riccioni, Milano 1926.
  • Gisela Pellegrini-Brandacher: Knight Sigismund von Neukomm and his oratorios. A contribution to the music history of Salzburg . Dissertation. University of Munich, Munich 1936.
  • Gisela Pellegrini:  Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm. A forgotten Salzburg musician. In:  Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde , born in 1936, (Volume LXXVI), pp. 1–67. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / slk
  • Till Gerrit Waidelich: ... very precisely measured, sparingly accompanied recitative, without determining the tones. Sigismund Neukomm's 'musically rhythmic' notation of the choral scenes for Schiller's Bride of Messina (1805) . In: Carl Maria von Weber and the drama music of his time (= Weber studies. Volume 7). Schott, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-7957-0383-2 , pp. 131–155.

Sheet music editions

  • Sigismund von Neukomm: The Bride of Messina ( Messinskaja nevesta , ili Vraždujuščie bratʹja: melodrama (k tragedii F. Šillera) = The bride of Messina or the enemy brothers: Melodrama / Sigizmund Ritter fon Nejkom ), (Ed. Denis G. Lomtev), (score) Moskva 2004 (based on the original from the Duchess Anna Amalia Library Weimar Petersburg, 1805 , which was burned in 2004.)
  • Orchestra fantasies, concert for piano forte, arias, grand symphony heroique: sheet music edited by Bert Hagels for Ries and Erler, as well as other works at castejon-music-editions.com
  • Sigismund von Neukomm: Nocturne , op.18 for piano forte and violin (Musikverlag LMM, www.LMM.de)
  • Sigismund von Neukomm: Elégie harmonique for Piano-Forte (Musikverlag LMM, www.LMM.de)
  • Sigismund von Neukomm: Fantasie Sonate (No. 2) (F minor / F minor ) for Piano Forte (Musikverlag LMM, www.LMM.de)
  • Sigismund von Neukomm: Fantasy Sonata (No. 1) (C minor / C minor ) for Piano Forte (Musikverlag LMM, www.LMM.de)
  • Sigismund von Neukomm: Caprice for Piano-Forte (Musikverlag LMM, www.LMM.de)
  • Sigismund von Neukomm: Fantasy (E minor / E minor ) for Piano-Forte (Musikverlag LMM, www.LMM.de)

Web links

Commons : Sigismund von Neukomm  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C. 3.30.6 'may I not die entirely' / 'I will not die entirely'.
  2. ↑ Sigismund Neukomm ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Academia Brasileira de Música, accessed on November 20, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abmusica.org.br
  3. ↑ CD product information Piano Concerto in C major op.12 on jpc.de, accessed on March 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ CD product information Messe de Requiem on jpc.de, accessed on March 9, 2014.
  5. ↑ CD product information Missa Solemnis on jpc.de, accessed on March 9, 2014.
  6. ↑ Position de thèse . (French). pdf online,  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on December 13, 2010. Position de thèse (7 pages)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 183 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.plm.paris-sorbonne.fr  @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.plm.paris-sorbonne.fr  
  7. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
  8. ↑ Catalog list Austrian National Library .
  9. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
personal data
SURNAME Neukomm, Sigismund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neukomm, Sigismund Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, pianist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1858
Place of death Paris