Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl (1782-1849)

Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl (10 December 1782 – 6 April 1849) was a German

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and conductor.

Life

Griepenkerl was born in

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the son of a preacher, he first attended the school in Peine and changed in 1796 to the . From 1805 to 1808 he studied

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at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, where he also studied philosophy and

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with

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and

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with

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. In addition he studied

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, piano and organ with

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's devotee

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(† 1818). In 1808, on Herbart's advice, he went to

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in Switzerland, where he became a teacher of the

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and

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at the newly founded

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Institute. He also directed the musical life of this school and the community.

University lecturer in Braunschweig

In 1816 he moved back to Braunschweig where he taught at the Katharineum. After receiving his

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in 1821, he was offered an extraordinary professorship for philosophy and fine sciences at the , which was converted into a full professorship in 1825. In 1828 he took up an additional teaching position at the Obergymnasium, where he taught German language and literature, mathematics and philosophy.

Musician and musicologist

Griepenkerl founded a singing academy in Braunschweig, which under his direction performed Bach's

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s and his

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. He was a co-organizer of the Braunschweig music festivals of 1836, 1839 and 1841. Griepenkerl was in friendly contact with important musicians of his time, such as

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and

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sy ...

. Together with Ferdinand August Roitzsch (1805-1889), he published a critical edition of J. S. Bach's piano and organ works in the years from 1837. He wrote the text for a great opera ''Pino di Porto'' by the Braunschweig court kapellmeister Georg Müller which was unsuccessful, however Griepenkerl died in

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at age 66.

Family

The older son (1810-1868) was a dramatist, storyteller and university lecturer at the Collegium Carolinum, the younger son

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(1813-1888) President of the Brunswick Chamber. His son was a physician in Königslutter and paleontologist. Griepenker died in

at age 66.

Work

* ''Von den Formen der Deklinazion und Konjugazion ihrem Begriffe nach zur Begründung einer allgemeinen philosophischen Grammatik'' (1822) * ''Lehrbuch der Ästhetik''. Braunschweig (1826) * ''Centifolie : ein Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1830 ; mit Kupfer u. Musik''. * ''Lehrbuch der Logik''. (1828, new edition 1831) * ''Briefe an einen jüngeren gelehrten Freund über Philosophie und besonders über Herbarts Lehren''.''Briefe an einen Jüngeren gelehrten Freund über Philosophie und Besonders über Herbart's lehren''.
on WorldCat Braunschweig (1832) * ''Johann Sebastian Bach’s Compositionen für die Orgel.'' Critically corrected edition by Friedrich Conrad Griepenkerl and Ferdinand Roitzsch. Leipzig im Bureau de Musique von C. F. Peters, 10 vols. from 1837.

References

Cited sources

* * * : Griepenkerl, Friedrich Konrad. In Manfred Garzmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (ed.): '. Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, , . Historical references
Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung
(1822)

External links

* * Andreas Waczkat
''Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl (1782–1849)''
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