music.wikisort.org - Composer

Johann Heinrich Tobler (1777–1838) was a Swiss singer and composer of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, active in the formative period of Switzerland as a federal state. Born in Trogen as the son of a butcher, he worked as Modelstecher (craftsman of artistic wooden Lebkuchen templates) in Speicher from 1792, from 1798 also as secretary to the local authorities. He married Ursula Lerchenmeyer in 1803, and Anna Katharina Lindenmann in 1820.

He was a musical autodidact, and became known as composer and editor of song collections, as publicist and poet. One of compositions is Herrlich Leben strömt aus Dir.

In 1823, he was co-founder of the first cantonal fire-insurance. He founded a literary association in 1820, which he presided 1825-27 and 1835–37, in 1824 he founded the cantonal choir (Sängerverein).

In 1813, he also published a treatise of the early modern history of his home canton since partition from Appenzell Innerrhoden in 1597.

Bibliography

• Lieder im gesellschaftlichen Kreise zu singen, 1807 (extended ed. 1828).
• Kurze Regenten- und Landesgeschichte des Kanton Appenzell der äusseren Rhoden, inner den Jahren 1597 bis 1797, 1813
• Landsgemeinde-Lieder, 1835
• Zwölf Lieder für vier Männerstimmen, 1837

References

• Thomas Fuchs: Johann Heinrich Tobler in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 2012.
• A. Tunger, Johann Heinrich Tobler, 1989

На других языках

---

[de] Johann Heinrich Tobler

Johann Heinrich Tobler (* 14. Januar 1777 in Trogen AR; † 16. Februar 1838 in Speicher AR; heimatberechtigt in Wolfhalden) war ein schweizerischer Dichter und Komponist. Bekannt geworden ist er durch seine Vertonung der Ode an Gott von Caroline Rudolphi, die bis zur Abschaffung der Landsgemeinde in Appenzell Ausserrhoden als Landsgemeindelied verwendet wurde und heute noch in Appenzell Innerrhoden bei offiziellen Anlässen gesungen wird.

---

- [en] Johann Heinrich Tobler

---

---