Thomas Daily Beck
Thomas T Tagesbeck (born December 31, 1799 in Ansbach ; † October 5, 1867 in Baden-Baden ) was a German violinist, conductor and composer .
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Thomas T Tagesbeck received music lessons from his father Johann T Tagesbeck, town musician and member of the margravial band. In his youth he came to Munich to take violin lessons from Pietro Rovelli . In 1817, a daily Becks mass, which was created under the supervision of his composition teacher, the court piano master Joseph Graetz (1760-1826), was successfully performed in Munich. In the same year he became a violinist in the Isartortheater orchestra . At the age of 20 he succeeded Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner as music director, after he had made him his assistant a year earlier. After the theater was closed, he became solo violinist in the Munich court orchestra in 1822. On August 24, 1823, his first opera, Weber's picture , was performed at the Munich Residenztheater . In 1824 he undertook an extensive concert tour through Germany, Switzerland and Northern Italy, and he became a member of the "Società Filarmonica" in Bergamo , which his teacher Rovelli directed. In the period from 1825 to 1832 there are benevolent reports about him in the “ Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung ”, while his playing in Munich at the same time was described as flattering rather than extraordinary.
In 1827, T Tagesbeck became Kapellmeister of the House of Hohenzollern-Hechingen under Prince Friedrich . After Prince Constantine took over government from 1838 , the court developed into one of the most important music centers of the time. Hector Berlioz (1842), Franz Liszt (1848) and the violinists Louis Spohr , Henri Vieuxtemps and Antonio Bazzini stayed in Hechingen , along with other well-known artists. After the Prussian takeover in 1848, the principality lost its independence and T Tagesbeck temporarily withdrew to Stuttgart. In 1852 he followed the prince on his possessions to Löwenberg in Silesia , where he led the newly convened court orchestra. The prince built a city palace in Löwenberg with a concert hall for 300 people. In 1857 Max Seyfriz (1827-1885) was his successor after T Tagesbeck , dissatisfied with the Prince's program, retired. After that, T Tagesbeck taught composition at the Dresden Conservatory for two years and lived in Munich for a few years before retiring to Baden-Baden in 1866, a year before his death .
A high point in his composing career was the performance of his 1st symphony at the Paris Conservatory in 1836 . The opera König Enzio was premiered in Karlsruhe in 1843 . In his time, T Tagesbeck was considered to be an excellent Kapellmeister; alongside Bernhard Molique , he is mentioned as one of the most important German violinists of the time.
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His compositions include a “Festive Mass”, a setting of Psalm 63, several operas, 2 symphonies, concerts, 3 string quartets, 1 clarinet quartet, 4 violin sonatas, violin duets, piano trios, further chamber music, several song albums and choral works.
Robert Eitner wrote about T Tagesbeck's work around 1894:
“The older music newspapers once did a lot to praise him as a great master, but his direction still belonged entirely to the feeble post-Mozart era that had spread for so long, even into the sixties of our century, and one itself Beethoven disregarded, d. H. did not understand. All the once celebrated and much-performed composers of this time, such as Reissiger, Pleyel, Dussek, Clementi, Hummel, Wanhall, Steibelt and many others belong more or less to this direction and yet once dominated the music market without restrictions. "
literature
- Robert Eitner : Daily Beck, Thomas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 359 f.
- Thomas T Tagesbeck Briefwechsel (1822–1867) - Complete Edition - A Look at the Hechingen and Löwenberg Music History Hainholz Verlag ISBN 978-3-932622-86-1
Web links
- Digitized estate of the court conductor Thomas T Tagesbeck in the Sigmaringen State Archives
- Sheet music and audio files by Thomas Tuellenbeck in the International Music Score Library Project
- Correspondence between Louis Spohr and Thomas Tuellenbeck
Individual evidence
- ^ Grove's dictionary of music and musicians . 1954, vol. 5, p. 9
- ^ Friedrich Frick: Small biographical lexicon of violinists ... ISBN 3-8370-3907-2
- ^ MGG , 2nd edition, Vol. 16, p. 431
- ↑ Robert Eitner: Daily Beck, Thomas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 359 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Daily Beck, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist, conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ansbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1867 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |