Johann Friedrich Rochlitz News
German writer and historian (1769-1842)
- Kingdom of Saxony
- writer, autobiographer, musicologist, music critic, librettist, music journalist, playwright, composer
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2022-08-02 08:33:38
According to the August 5, 1822 Wiener Zeitung, Friedrich v. Rochlitz departs Vienna today, returning to Leipzig. During his several months in Vienna, he had managed to meet with Beethoven three times, as previously related in these pages.
2022-07-09 10:04:13
Friedrich Rochlitz, now in Baden, writes to music publisher Christoph Härtel in Leipzig a very long letter, telling him of his three meetings with Beethoven: the upsetting meeting at the Steiner firm last month, and his more gratifying meetings with Beethoven and Schubert over dinner and again by happenstance in …
2022-07-07 07:27:06
BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sunday, July 7, 1822 (approximately)
Sometime before July 9, Beethoven makes a day trip to Baden bei Wien. While there, he runs into Johann Friedrich Rochlitz, whom he had met twice in Vienna. Rochlitz’s account, taken from a letter to publisher Christoph Härtel, is reprinted in Sonneck, Beethoven: Impressions of Contemporaries (New York: Schirmer 1926) …
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2016-04-25 16:02:11
The glass harmonica: the world's most dangerous instrument?
[…] Soon, regular players reported unusual side-effects from playing. Tinnitus, disorientation and even 'madness' struck the players with alarming regularity. The instrument was credited with causing evil and endangering the public, and the health warnings were clear: ‘If you are suffering from any kind of nervous disorder, you should not play it; if you are not yet ill you should not play it; if you are feeling melancholy you should not play it,' German musicologist Friedrich Rochlitz wrote. Reports of mental instability and hysteria soon saw this eerie instrument relegated from the realms solo performance. Opera, however, with its frequent flights of fancy and multiple 'mad scenes', is where this instrumental anomaly found its home. Its most famous outing is during Donizetti's bel canto tragedy, Lucia di Lammermoor - unsurprisingly, during the 'mad scene', cementing the glass harmonica's place as the soundtrack to unusual or other-worldly activities. It's these unique qualities […]
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