Wenceslaus Matiegka

Wenzel Thomas Matiegka (actually Václav Tomáš Matějka , also Wenzeslav Matiegka or Wenzeslaus Matiegka , baptized July 6, 1773 in Chotzen ; † January 19, 1830 in Vienna ) was a Bohemian composer and guitarist of the Viennese Biedermeier and choir regent.

Life

Wenzel Matiegka received training as a soprano in the Kremsier seminar he attended from 1788 , then he studied law in Prague and also music with the composer and piano virtuoso Abbé Josef Jelínek (Joseph Gelinek). From 1800 he lived in Vienna as a piano and guitar teacher. In 1817 he was (at least until 1824) choirmaster at St. Leopold , in 1821 also at the St. Joseph branch in Leopoldstadt.

Matiegka composed masses and other sacred music as well as chamber music works. But he was best known for his thirty or so guitar works and a notturno for flute, viola and guitar, which Franz Schubert reworked into a quartet by adding a cello part and which was long considered a composition by Schubert ( D 96 = Anh. II, 2) has been.

A manuscript by Wilhelm Klingenbrunner from 1826, in which Matiegka's works are listed, has been preserved in the archive of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna .

At the age of 58, Matiegka died of pulmonary tuberculosis and left his wife Theresia in poor circumstances with two adult and four underage daughters.

Works (selection)

• Twelve easy country traders (Opus 1)
• XII Pièçes faciles our guitar. (Opus 3)
• 6 variations (Air de la Molinara) (Opus 8)
• Grande Sonate facile in C major (Opus 11)
• 12 minuets (opus 15)
• Notturno for flute, viola and guitar (Opus 21)
• 6 Progressive Sonates, No. 1 (Opus 31)
• 15 Variations sur la Tyrolienne (without opus number)
• Grande Sonate No. I in D major (without opus number)

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Matiegka, Wenzel . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 17th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1867, p. 105 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Matiegka, Wenzel (2nd article) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 26th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, p. 398 ( digitized version ).
• Josef Zuth : Simon Molitor and Viennese guitarism around 1800 . Goll, Vienna 1920, online .
• Jürgen Libbert : An unknown work by the Bohemian guitarist Wenzel Matiegka. With a historical-biographical outline and a catalog raisonné. In: Guitar & Laute 1 (1979), 5, ISSN  0172-9683 , pp. 14-24.
• Jürgen Libbert: Foreword. In: Jürgen Libbert (Ed.): Wenzel Matiegka, 12 easy pieces for guitar. Edition Preißler, 1979.
• Francesco Gorio: Wenzel Thomas Matiegka (1773-1830) . In: Il Fronimo 13, 1985 ZDB -ID 198721-5 , pp. 24–41 (with catalog raisonné ), pp. 7–26; 14, 1986, pp. 18-45 (with a thematic index).
• Jürgen Libbert: WA Mozart and W. Th. Matiegka. On the functional change of the minuet around 1800. In: Musica. Volume 45, 1991, No. 5, pp. 292-294.
• Fritz Buek: The guitar and its masters. Robert Lienau (Schlesinger'sche Buch- und Musikhandlung) , Berlin-Lichterfelde 1926, p. 27 f.

Web links

• Works by and about Wenzel Matiegka in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature and other media by and about Wenzel Matiegka in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Sheet music and audio files by Wenzel Matiegka in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

1. ^ Otto Erich German : Franz Schubert. Thematic index of his works in chronological order. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1978, ISBN 3-7618-0571-3 , p. 658 f.
2. ↑ See Jürgen Libbert (Ed.): Wenzel Matiegka, 12 easy pieces op. 3 for guitar. Adapted from the original text [from the chemical printing works in Vienna from around 1814]. Edition Preißler, 1979 (= studio series guitar. Volume 3).
3. ↑ B. Tonazzi (Ed.) Wenzeslaus Matiegka, Dodici minuetti brillanti op.15 per chitarra.
4. ↑ Jürgen Libbert: An unknown work by the Bohemian guitarist Wenzel Matiegka. 1979, pp. 16 and 18.