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Ernst Christoph Dressler (23 September 1734 – 6 April 1779)[1] was a German composer, operatic tenor, violinist and music theorist. A self-taught singer and violinist, he became a musician at several courts before he moved to the Court Opera in Vienna and finally to Kassel. He is known for a march on which Beethoven based his first published composition.

Ernst Christoph Dressler
Portrait by Johann Heinrich Tischbein, 1780
Born(1734-09-23)23 September 1734
Greußen, near Sondershausen
Died6 April 1779(1779-04-06) (aged 44)
Kassel
Education
  • University of Halle
  • University of Jena
  • University of Leipzig
Occupation
  • Operatic tenor
  • Violinist
  • Composer
  • Music theorist

Life


Born in Greußen, near Sondershausen in Thuringia, to Christian Ludwig Dressler and Catherine Elizabeth Renner, Dressler studied theology, jurisprudence and German poetry at the universities of Halle, Jena and Leipzig.[2] In Leipzig, he educated himself in playing the violin and in singing.[3] He moved to Bayreuth, where he took lessons from the singer Maria Giustina Turcotti, training his tenor voice,[4] and subsequently worked as a chamber musician, court singer and secretary for Margrave Friedrich Christian.[3][5] When the margrave died in 1763, Dressler moved to Gotha, and in May 1764 took up similar duties for the Duke of Gotha and his wife Princess Luise Dorothea.[3][5] He was a talented violinist, composer and writer, in addition to his ability as a tenor. He disapproved of the opera buffa then in vogue at Gotha, and in November 1766 he resigned[3] or was dismissed.[5] In February 1767 he became Kapellmeister to the Prince of Fürstenberg,[5] not at the prince's court at Donaueschingen but at Wetzlar.[6] In 1771, the prince returned to Bohemia; Dressler chose not to go with him.[3] Instead, he worked as a singer at the Imperial Court Opera in Vienna.[4] In 1774, he moved to the court opera in Kassel where he remained until his death.[4][7]

Dressler married Wilhelmine Christiane Zeitz.[2] Two of their sons also worked for the Kassel Hofkapelle.[4] He died in Kassel on 6 April 1779, aged 44.[2]


Work and legacy


Dressler published two books of songs.[7] His best known composition is a march which was the basis of Ludwig van Beethoven's earliest work, "Nine Variations on a March by Ernst Christoph Dressler", which was published in 1782, three years after Dressler's death.[4][8]

In his works on music theory, he supported efforts to create a distinct German opera independent of Italian opera. This required the establishment of permanent opera houses in Germany, rare in Germany at the time. He considered Anton Schweitzer's 1773 opera Alceste (with a libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland) a paradigm of German opera.[2]


Publications



Song collections



Music theory



References


  1. "Dressler (Dreßler), Ernst Christoph". Bayerisches Musiker Lexikon Online (in German). University of Munich. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  2. Wolff, Helmuth Christian (1959). "Dreßler, Ernst Christoph". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 4. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  3. Choron, Alexandre; Fayolle, François (1817). "Dresler, Ernest Christophe". Dictionnaire historique des musiciens, artistes et amateurs, morts ou vivans (in French). Vol. 1. Chimot. p. 191. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  4. Kutsch, K. J.; Riemens, Leo (2012). "Dressler, Ernst Christoph". Großes Sängerlexikon (in German) (4th ed.). Walter de Gruyter. p. 1227. ISBN 978-3-59-844088-5.
  5. Lorenz, Franz (2014). Georg Anton Benda (in German). Walter de Gruyter. p. 65. ISBN 978-3110841985. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  6. Leopold, Silke; Pelker, Bärbel (2014). Süddeutsche Hofkapellen im 18. Jahrhundert: Eine Bestandsaufnahme (in German). Heidelberg University Publishing. p. 71. ISBN 978-3-946054-78-8. Retrieved 10 May 2019. (footnote 91)
  7. Riemann, Hugo (1916). Musik-Lexikon (in German). Vol. 1. p. 263. ISBN 9789925044818. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  8. McPherson, Gary E. (2016). Musical Prodigies: Interpretations from Psychology, Education, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology. Oxford University Press. p. 582. ISBN 978-0191509254. Retrieved 9 May 2019.


Nine Variations on a March by Ernst Christoph Dressler: Recordings and scores at the International Music Score Library Project


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Ernst Christoph Dressler (geboren 23. September 1734 in Greußen; gestorben 6. April 1779 in Kassel)[1] war ein deutscher Komponist, Tenor, Geiger und Musiktheoretiker. Er erlernte Operngesang und Violinspiel im Selbststudium und wurde Hofmusiker an verschiedenen Höfen, bevor er an die Wiener Hofoper wechselte. Seine letzte Station war der Hof in Kassel. Er wurde durch einen Marsch bekannt, auf den Ludwig van Beethoven Variationen schrieb, die sein erstes veröffentlichtes Werk wurden.
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