Adam Falckenhagen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German composer and lutenist
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Place of Birth: Leipzig, Leipzig District, Germany
About Adam Falckenhagen
- Adam Falckenhagen (26 April 1697 – 6 October 1754) was a German lutenist and composer of the Baroque period. He was born in Groß-Dölzig, near Leipzig in Saxony, but spent the later part of his life in Bayreuth.
- He wrote tuneful music which is still played today on lute and guitar.
- Much of this music survives in the Bavarian State Library, Munich. He received his first musical instruction in the village of Knauthain, the native home of Johann Christian Weyrauch.
- Weyrauch was a pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach and transcriber of works by Bach for the lute.
- In 1713 Falckenhagen is mentioned as "gifted in literature and music," and in 1715 as "Musician and footman of the young Lord of Dieskau." The Dieskaus were a family for whom J.S.
- Bach later wrote the Bauernkantate in Merseburg.
- Falckenhagen stayed in Merseburg with the Dieskaus from about 1715, until in 1719 he succeeded Johann Graf in the position of Saxe Court lutenist.
- Falckenhagen attended Leipzig University from 1719 to 1720.
- It has been suggested that Falckenhagen also studied with Johann Jakob Graf, a pupil of Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1686-1750), and later with Weiss himself. Like many of his contemporaries, Falckenhagen travelled from court to court most of his life (Weissenfels, 1720-1727; Jena and Weimar (1729-1732)), eventually settling in Bayreuth, where he won the favour of Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Bayreuth, in 1734.
- Wilhelmine was a lutenist and sister of Frederick the Great; she invited him to be the court lutenist at Bayreuth.
- Falckenhagen held this position until his death in 1754. Falckenhagen's music is representative of the final flowering of 18th-century lute music in Germany.
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