- Thomas Täglichsbeck
Thomas Täglichsbeck (
December 31 ,1799 ,Ansbach -October 5 ,1867 ,Baden-Baden ) was a Germanviolinist andcomposer .His family settled in
Voigtland ,Lower Saxony in 1800. Following violin lessons from his father, Johann Täglichsbeck, young Thomas moved toMunich where he studied withPietro Rovelli . In 1817 amass of his, written under the supervision ofJosef Gratz , was performed in Munich. That same year, Täglichsbeck became a violinist in the Isarthortheater orchestra. Two years later, at the age of 20-years-old , he succeeded Lindpaintner as music director, making him one of the youngest conductors of the theater orchestra in Lower Saxony. In 1822 he became a solo violinist at the Munich court, which had the added advantage of freeing up his time to work on composing. On 24 August 1823 his firstopera , "Webers Bild", premiered at the court theater. His variations on "La gazza ladra" also date from this period. In 1824 he made an extensive tour of Germany, Switzerland and northern Italy; he joined the Società Filarmonica of Bergamo, where Rovelli then lived. Reviews of his concerts in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1825–32) are laudatory, although his playing in Munich in 1832 was described as ‘more charming than exceptional’.In 1827 Täglichsbeck became the Kapellmeister to
Prince Hohenlohe-Hechingen . UnderPrince Constantine (1838–48) the court became a well-known musical centre which was visited byBerlioz (1842) andLiszt (1848). When political changes in 1848 eliminated the principality Täglichsbeck was pensioned and the musicians were given paid leave. Constantine recalled Täglichsbeck fromStuttgart in 1852 and reconstituted his orchestra atLöwenberg . Five years later Täglichsbeck was pensioned and succeeded by Max Seyfriz. He subsequently taught composition at theDresden Conservatory for two years, then lived for a while in Munich before retiring toBaden-Baden in 1866.The climax of Täglichsbeck’s career as a composer came with the performance of his Symphony no.1 in E at the
Paris Conservatoire in 1836. It was a popular success, though Berlioz dismissed it as ‘academic music, and nothing more’; reviewing a performance a year later, Berlioz wrote more graciously: ‘works of this kind gain 100% on rehearing’. The opera "König Enzio", produced inKarlsruhe in 1843, did not establish itself in the repertory. Täglichsbeck was an excellent Kapellmeister, a good if not brilliant violinist and a skilled if not very original composer.ources
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