Karl Friedrich Abel ( him. Carl Friedrich Abel ; December 22, 1723 , - June 20, 1787 , London ) - German composer and performer on the viola da gamba .
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| Date of death | June 20, 1787 |
| Place of death | London |
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| Professions | composer , performer on viola da gamba |
| Instruments | Viola da gamba |
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Biography
Father Abel Christian Ferdinand Abel was intimately acquainted with Johann Sebastian Bach , under whose leadership he studied at the St. Thomas Thomas Leipzig School . It is believed that exactly on the recommendation of Bach, the 24-year-old Abel in 1748 entered the Dresden court orchestra under the direction of Johann Adolf Hasse , where he worked for 10 years. In 1759 , Abel moved to England, where he became court composer of George III 's wife, Queen Charlotte. After arriving in London in 1762 , Johann Christian Bach Abel and Bach Jr. worked together a lot and in 1764 established a joint concert project, which became the first cycle of paid concerts by subscription in England.
In 1763, together with Count Saint-Germain, he wrote the musical comedy “The Summer's Tale” (“Summer Tale”). [7]
Abel was widely known as a virtuoso musician. Johann Wolfgang Goethe called him the last great gambist. It is characteristic that Christian Döbereiner , who revived performance on the viola da gamba, made his debut in 1905 as a gambist with the performance of the sonata of Abel. Abel’s composer’s legacy is quite extensive, although one of his symphonies was most curious in a somewhat curious way: a handwritten score of her was found in the papers of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published under his name as Symphony No. 3 (K 18); apparently, the young Mozart rewrote it for himself in 1764 with educational purposes. Abel owns many symphonies, sonatas, concerts and overtures. He also willingly participated in the composition of comic opera-pastishs, which were usually the fruit of collective creativity - in particular, Abel’s music, along with the music of Johann Christian Bach, is in the opera of Tom Jones based on the story by Henry Fielding , set in London in 1769 .
Notes
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.
- ↑ Roux P. d. Nouveau Dictionnaire des œuvres de tous les temps et tous les pays - 2 - Éditions Robert Laffont , 1994. - Vol. 1. - P. 4. - ISBN 978-2-221-06888-5
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ Abel, Karl Friedrich // Encyclopedic Lexicon - SPb. : 1835. - T. 1. - p. 27.
- ↑ G. Riemann Abel // Musical Dictionary : Translation from the 5th German edition / ed. Yu. D. Engel - M .: Musical Publishing House P. I. Yurgenson , 1901. - T. 1. - p. 4.
- Qu Squire W. B. Abel, Karl Friedrich (DNB00) // Dictionary of National Biography / L. Stephen , S. Lee - London : Smith, Elder & Co. 1885.
- ↑ Paul Shakornak “Count Saint-Germain — keeper of all secrets” - M .: “Veche”, 2007, p. 47 ISBN 978-5-9533-1957-7
Literature
- SM Helm. Carl Friedrich Abel, Symphonist. - London, 1953.
- Walter Knape . Karl Friedrich Abel. Leben und Werk eines frühklassischen Komponisten. - Bremen: Schünemann, 1973. ISBN 3-7961-3036-4
Links
- Abel, Karl Friedrich: sheet music on the International Music Score Library Project