Johann David Heinichen
Johann David Heinichen | |
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Born | Teuchern, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany | April 17, 1683
Died | July 16, 1729 | (aged 46)
Known for | Circle of fifths |
Children | 1 |
Johann David Heinichen (17 April 1683 – 16 July 1729) was a German
Biography
Johann David Heinichen was born in the small village of Krössuln (currently part of the town
Heinichen enrolled in 1702 to study
However, Heinichen maintained his interest in music and was concurrently composing operas. In 1710, he published the first edition of his major treatise on the
In 1712, he taught music to Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, who took him as composer. The same prince would appoint Johann Sebastian Bach Kapellmeister at the end of 1717. In 1716, Heinichen met in Venice Prince Augustus III of Poland, son of King Augustus II the Strong, and thanks to him was appointed the Royal-Polish and Electoral-Saxon Kapellmeister in Dresden.[3] His pupils included Johann Georg Pisendel. In 1721, Heinichen married in Weissenfels; the birth of his only child is recorded as January 1723. In his final years, Heinichen's health suffered greatly; on the afternoon of 16 July 1729, he was buried in the Johannes cemetery after finally succumbing to tuberculosis.
His music began to be better known after 1992 when Musica Antiqua Köln under Reinhard Goebel recorded a selection of Dresden Concerti (Seibel 204, 208, 211, 213–215, 217, 226, 231–235, 240), followed by a recording of Heinichen's Lamentationes and Passionsmusik (1996). His sole opera for Dresden, Flavio Crispo (1720), was never performed and was not recorded until 2018. Two "passion oratorios", L'aride tempie ignude (1724?) and Come? S'imbruna il cieli Occhi piangete (1728) (classified in the catalogue as the cantatas Seibel 29 and 30), were recorded in 2021 by the Kölner Akademie.[4]
Circle of fifths
Heinichen is credited with independently inventing the circle of fifths (German: Musicalischer Circul) in his Neu erfundene und gründliche Anweisung (1711),[5] though he was not the earliest inventor. The circle of fifths had previously been invented by
Works list
References
- ^ "Naxos Classical Music".
- ^ George J. Buelow – A History of Baroque Music 2004 – Page 463 0253343658 Johann David Heinichen (1683–1729) in 1713 also had great successes at Venice's Sant'Angelo theater with two operas: Mario and Le passioni per troppo amore.
- ^ "Słuchajmy Heinichena..." Radio Kraków (in Polish). Retrieved 28 November 2019.
- ^ 'Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729): Two Passion Oratorios', reviewed at MusicWeb International, November 2022
- ^ Johann David Heinichen, Neu erfundene und gründliche Anweisung (1711), p. 261
Further reading
- Buelow, George J. 1966. "The Loci Topici and Affect in Late Baroque Music: Heinichen's Practical Demonstration". The Music Review 27:161–76.
- Buelow, George J. 1992. Thorough-Bass Accompaniment According to Johann David Heinichen, third edition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
- Buelow, George J. 2001. "Heinichen, Johann David". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
- Unger, Melvin P. 1990. The German Choral Church Compositions of Johann David Heinichen. American University Studies, Series 20: Fine Arts 14. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 9780820412368.