Wenzel Trnka from Krzowitz
Wenzel Trnka (* 16th October 1739 in Tabor , Bohemia ; † 12. May 1791 ), Czech Vaclav Trnka z Křovic , a Bohemian was a doctor , medical professor and amateur composer in the 18th century.
Life
biography
Wenzel Trnka von Krzowitz was born on October 16, 1739 in Tabor in Bohemia. He studied medicine in Prague and Vienna . In 1769, on the recommendation of Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772), the Dutch personal physician Maria Theresa of Austria, he was employed in the military hospital in Vienna. In 1770 he was awarded the doctorate for his work "De morbo coxario". In the same year he was appointed to the professorship for anatomy at the University of Tyrnau , now Trnava , but this was dissolved in 1777. Wenzel Trnka was transferred to Ofen, today's Buda , and in 1784 received the chair of pathology at the University of Pest . He died on May 12, 1791.
Medical work
Wenzel Trnka mainly dealt with medical-historical topics and published works on the history of amaurosis , leucorrhea , ophthalmia , cardialgia , rickets , tympanitis and hemorrhoids as well as tetanus and diabetes .
Musical work
In addition to his work as a doctor, Wenzel Trnka von Krzowitz occupied himself with music and composed several pieces of music. He was friends with Gottfried van Swieten , the son of Gerard van Swieten and patron Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . He wrote at least 61 canons based on the specifications of Pietro Metastasio . Fifteen years after his death, two series with twelve canons each were published, probably by his wife Therese and her future husband Franz Stadler, who sang as tenor for the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna .
In 1988 the musicologist Wolfgang Plath discovered that the melodies of two canons previously attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart came from Wenzel Trnka von Krzowitz. These are the canons Tu sei gelosa, è vero ( KV 233 (382d)), alienated by Mozart as Lick my ass fine, pretty clean , and When the heat in summer I eat , in the original So che vanti un cor ingrato .
literature
- Julius Pagel: Trnka von Krzowitz, Wenzel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 633.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dorothea Link: È la fede degli amanti and Viennese operatic canon. In: Simon Keefe (Ed.): Mozart Studies . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 0-521-85102-5 , pp. 109-136 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ^ Wolfgang Plath: Questions about authenticity with Mozart. II: Wenzel Trnka and the alleged Mozart canons KV 233 (382d) and KV 234 (382e). In: Hanspeter Bennwitz et al. (Ed.): Opera incerta. Questions of authenticity as a problem of overall musicological editions. Colloquium Mainz 1988, report on behalf of the Committee for Musicological Editions of the Conference of the Academies of Sciences in the Federal Republic of Germany; Academy of Sciences and Literature. Steiner, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-515-05996-2 , pp. 237-258.
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| SURNAME | Trnka von Krzowitz, Wenzel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trnka z Křovic, Václav; Trnka von Krzowitz, Wenzel Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Physician, university professor and lay composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1739 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tábor , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1791 |