Johann Gottlieb Naumann ( German: Johann Gottlieb Naumann ; April 7, 1741 , Blazewitz - October 23, 1801 , Dresden ) - German composer and conductor, famous for his operas in Sweden and Denmark.
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- 1 Biography
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
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Biography
Born in a landowner family. He received his primary musical education at a rural school in Loshvits, learning to play the piano and organ there. At the age of 13, he was forced to study plumbing for some time, but then was able to enter one of the Latin schools in Dresden and continue his musical education there. In 1757, together with Geiger Anders Wesström went on a trip to Italy. From 1759 to 1763 he studied with Giuseppe Tartini in Padua , Giovanni Batista Martini in Bologna , as well as Johann Adolf Hasse in Venice . In this period of his life he wrote his first musical works. His first opera, Il tesoro insidiato, was written for the 1763 Venetian Carnival.
On August 1, 1764, on the recommendation of Hasse and Martini, he was appointed court composer of church music in Dresden, and the next year he again went on a trip to Italy. He was recalled to Dresden in the spring of 1768, where he wrote, in particular, the opera La clemenza di Tito for the wedding of King Frederick Augustus I. From 1772 to 1774 he worked in Munich , then returned to Italy, wrote five operas in Padua and Venice, soon becoming a famous opera composer, and in 1776 refused an invitation to Berlin, preferring to become a court bandmaster in Dresden. In 1777, he accepted the invitation of the Swedish king Gustav III , where he worked at the Royal Opera in Stockholm and reformed the structure of the local court orchestra. In 1786 he staged the opera Gustav Vasa, which became very popular in Sweden , and from that year to the end of his life he worked in Dresden, was a guest conductor of the opera composer in Copenhagen in 1785-1786 and in Berlin in 1788-1789. In 1792, he married the daughter of a Danish vice admiral, in the same period, due to increasing deafness, he was forced to move away from active musical activity.
He was a prolific composer, having written hundreds of works of various genres in his life, but is best known as an opera composer. For the theater in Palermo, he wrote the opera Achilles on Skyros; his other opera, Alexander in India, was staged in Venice. Later on Italian scenes he successfully performed his “Suleiman”, “Upset Wedding”, “Uninhabited Island”, “Armida”. While working in Stockholm, he wrote his first Swedish opera Amphion, which was a great success; it was followed by Kora and Gustav Vasa (also in Swedish), and in Copenhagen (in Danish) by Orpheus. His last opera, Acis and Galatea, was staged in Dresden in 1801.
He also wrote chamber music, church music in Latin, Italian and German (8 masses, passions and other oratorios, Marian antiphons, offers and other propria chants), elegies, songs. In general, Nauman in Sweden and Denmark was more famous (mainly as an opera composer) than at home.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Johann Gottlieb (A) Naumann - 1917.
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118738208 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Literature
- Johann Gottlieb Naumann und die europäische Musikkultur des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts, hrsg. v. Ortrun Landmann u. Hans-Günter Ottenberg. Hildesheim ua 2006 (Dresdner Beiträge zur Musikforschung 2).
- Bemmann K. Die katholische Kirchenmusik Johann Gottlieb Naumanns (1741–1801). Ein Beitrag zur Überlieferungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte. Hamburg, 2008.
Links
- Article in ADB (German)
- An article in Meyer's dictionary (German)