Carl Ludwig Matthes

Carl Ludwig Matthes (born 1751) was a German oboist and composer of the classical era.

Life

Matthes was born in Berlin,[1][2][3] where his father was a musician.[2] He learned the oboe from Carlo Besozzi in Dresden[1][2][3] and after this time, he "blew the oboe with great skill and an pleasant tone".[2] He was also noted for his excellent performance of slow movements, which he played "with taste, sensitivity and pleasant tone, after the latest fasion".[2] As an oboist, he was compared to Johann Christian Fischer, Ludwig August Lebrun and his teacher, Besozzi.[2]

In 1781, he became an oboist and Kammermusikus at the Hofkapelle of Margrave Friedrich Heinrich von Schwedt in Berlin.[1][2][3] During this time, he 1786 composed Urania's Weissagung, which was performed on the birthday of King Friedrich Wilhelm II at the Margravial theater in Schwedt.[2] In 1788, following the death of the Margrave and the subsequent dissolution of the Hofkapelle, Matthes took over a starch factory. As he had no experience running a business, he soon landed in debt and filed for bankruptcy.[1][2] After this, he returned to music, there are no surviving records of his life after this date.

Works

Matthes' only surviving works are two sonatas for oboe and continuo which were published by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach in 1770 as part of Musikalisches Vielerley.[4] The sonatas survive in numerous manuscript copies which attests to their popularity. They were also reworked for flute and continuo.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Eitner, Robert (1901). Biographisch-bibliographisches Quellen-Lexikon der Musiker und Musikgelehrten der christlichen Zeitrechnung bis zur Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Band 6 (in German). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. p. 384.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Freiherrn von Ledebur, Carl (1861). Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart (in German). p. 355.
  3. 1 2 3 Gerber, Ernst Ludwig (1790). Historisch-Biographisches Lexicon der Tonkünstler (in German). Leipzig. p. 903.
  4. ↑ "Musikalisches Vierlerley at IMSLP.org".

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