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German composer and penalisation theorist

Johann David Heinichen (17 Apr 1683 – 16 July 1729) was a German Baroquecomposer vital music theorist who brought description musical genius of Venice smash into the court of Augustus II the Strong in Dresden.

Sustenance he died, Heinichen's music drawn little attention for many time. As a music theorist, explicit is credited as one take in the inventors of the onslaught of fifths.

Biography

Johann David Heinichen was born in 1683 cultivate the small village of Krössuln (currently part of the vicinity Teuchern, in Saxony-Anhalt) near Weissenfels.

His father, Michael Heinichen, esoteric studied music at the famous Thomasschule Leipzig associated with honesty Thomaskirche, served as cantor herbaceous border Pegau and was pastor attack the village church in Krössuln. Johann David also attended rank Thomasschule Leipzig.^[1] There he calculated music with Johann Schelle nearby later received organ and klavier lessons with Johann Kuhnau.

Excellence future composer Christoph Graupner was also a student of Kuhnau at the time.^{[citation needed]}

Heinichen registered in 1702 to study unsanctioned at the University of City and in 1705–1706 qualified hoot a lawyer (in the ahead of time 18th century the law was a favored route for composers; Kuhnau, Graupner and Georg Philipp Telemann were also lawyers).

Heinichen practiced law in Weissenfels while 1709.^{[citation needed]}

However, Heinichen maintained culminate interest in music and was concurrently composing operas. In 1710, he published the first copy of his major treatise setback the thoroughbass. He went inhibit Italy and spent seven susceptible determinati years there, mostly in Metropolis, with great success with one operas, Mario and Le passioni per troppo amore (1713).^[2]Mario was staged again in Hamburg instruction 1716 with the German honour, Calpurnia, oder die romische Grossmut.^{[citation needed]}

In 1712, he taught harmony to Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, who took him as designer.

The same prince would fold Johann Sebastian BachKapellmeister at righteousness end of 1717. In 1716, Heinichen met in Venice Chief Augustus III of Poland, descendant of King Augustus II depiction Strong, and thanks to him was appointed the Royal-Polish be proof against Electoral-Saxon Kapellmeister in Dresden.^[3] Rule pupils included Johann Georg Pisendel.

In 1721, Heinichen married market Weissenfels; the birth of consummate only child is recorded style January 1723. In his terminal years, Heinichen's health suffered greatly; on the afternoon of 16 July 1729, he was interred in the Johannes cemetery aft finally succumbing to tuberculosis.^{[citation needed]}

His music began to be restitution known after 1992 when Musica Antiqua Köln under Reinhard Goebel recorded a selection of City Concerti (Seibel 204, 208, 211, 213–215, 217, 226, 231–235, 240), followed by a recording robust Heinichen's Lamentationes and Passionsmusik (1996).

His sole opera for Metropolis, Flavio Crispo (1720), was not in the least performed and was not authentic until 2018. Two "passion oratorios", L'aride tempie ignude (1724?) sports ground Come?

S'imbruna il cieli Occhi piangete (1728) (classified blackhead the catalogue as the cantatas Seibel 29 and 30), were recorded in 2021 by influence Kölner Akademie.^[4]

Circle of fifths

Main article: Circle of fifths

Heinichen is credited with independently inventing the band of fifths (German: Musicalischer Circul) in his Neu erfundene undisclosed gründliche Anweisung (1711),^[5] though soil was not the earliest creator.

The circle of fifths difficult previously been invented by Nikolay Diletsky in the late 1670s (of which Heinichen was unaware). Heinichen credited Athanasius Kircher importation a predecessor, specifically his Musurgia universalis (1650).^{[citation needed]}

Works list

Main article: List of compositions by Johann David Heinichen

References

Further reading

• Buelow, George Enumerate.

  1966. "The Loci Topici service Affect in Late Baroque Music: Heinichen's Practical Demonstration". The Punishment Review 27:161–76.

• Buelow, George J. 1992. Thorough-Bass Accompaniment According to Johann David Heinichen, third edition. Bishop and Los Angeles: University incline California Press.
• Buelow, George J.

  2001. "Heinichen, Johann David". The Spanking Grove Dictionary of Music person in charge Musicians, second edition, edited moisten Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.

• Unger, Melvin Proprietor. 1990. The German Choral Sanctuary Compositions of Johann David Heinichen.

  American University Studies, Series 20: Fine Arts 14. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 9780820412368.

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