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Lorenz Christoph Mizler

January 26, 2023

Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof (also known as Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof and Mitzler de Koloff; 26 July 1711 – 8 May 1778) was a German physician, historian, printer, mathematician, Baroque music composer, and precursor of the Enlightenment in Poland.[1][2]

First page of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Nekrolog" as published in Mizler's Musikalische Bibliothek, volume IV, part 1 (1754)

Family of origin

Mizler was born Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof in Heidenheim, Middle Franconia to Johann Georg Mizler, a court clerk to the Margrave of Ansbach at Heidenheim, and Barbara Stumpf, of St. Gallen, Switzerland.[3]

Education

His first teacher was N. Müller, a minister from Obersulzbach, Lehrberg, from whom Mizler learned the flute and violin.[4] From 1724 to 1730, Mizler studied at the Ansbach Gymnasium with Rector Oeder and Johann Matthias Gesner, who became director of the St. Thomas School, Leipzig, from 1731 to 1734.

Mizler enrolled at Leipzig University on 30 April 1731, where he studied theology. His teachers there included Gesner, Johann Christoph Gottsched, and Christian Wolff. He earned a BS in December 1733 and a MS in March 1734. During this time, he also pursued the study of composition and had some association with Johann Sebastian Bach, whom, he wrote, he had the honor to call his "good friend and patron."[5]

Mizler moved to Wittenberg in 1735 to study law and medicine; returning to Leipzig in 1736.[6]

Career

From May 1737, Mizler began lecturing on music history and Johann Mattheson's Neu-eröffnete Orchestre [Newly Published Orchestra] he was the first to lecture on music at a German university in 150 years. He also began a monthly publication, the Neu eröffnete musikalische Bibliothek [Newly Published Musical Library] in 1738.[7]

At about this time, Mizler began a music publishing business; and he returned school to take a doctorate of medicine at Erfurt University in 1747.[8]

Move to Poland

In 1743 he left Leipzig and settled permanently in Poland. Mitzler de Kolof (his nom de guerre in Poland) became secretary, teacher, librarian and court mathematician to Count Małachowski of Końskie, from whom he learned Polish and with whom he studied Polish history and literature.[9]

In 1747 Mizler moved to Warsaw. Mitzler also began a medical practice, which included consulting as a court physician to King August III. When he became court physician, this afforded him time to study the natural sciences.[10]

Mizler established the publishing house 'Mizlerischer Bücherverlag, Warschau und Leipzig' in 1740.[11]

Honors

Mitzler became a member of the Erfurt Academy of Sciences in 1755, and received Polish nobility in 1768.[12]

Publisher

In association with the Załuski Library, Mitzler published and edited Poland's first scientific periodicals: Warschauer Bibliothek (1753–55), Acta Litteraria... (1755–56), Nowe Wiadomości Ekonomiczne i Uczone [Economic and Learned News], 1758–61 and 1766–67). From 1765 he published the Monitor (1765–85),[1] which had been founded at the initiative of King Stanisław August Poniatowski,[13] from 1773 until 1777 as its editor.[1] In 1756 he set up a printing establishment, which in 1768 he conveyed (together with a type foundry) to Warsaw's Corps of Cadets, while retaining the business' directorship. At this printing establishment, Mitzler published scholarly editions of historic sources (a collection of chronicles, Collectio magna, 1761–71), literary works, and textbooks for the Corps of Cadets. He also operated a bookstore.[1]

Mitzler de Kolof promoted new ideas, including the emancipation of Poland's townspeople.[1] From 1743 he was the chief advocate, in Poland, of Christian Wolff's philosophical doctrines.[14]

Death

Mitzler died in Warsaw in 1778.

Music

Mitzler, an amateur composer, was deeply interested in music theory, advocating the establishment of a musical science based firmly on mathematics; philosophy; and the imitation of nature in music. He translated Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum into German (the original was in Latin), having written of it that "this methodical guide to musical composition [is] among all such works the best book that we have for practical music and its composition."[15]

Mitzler was a polymath: his interests encompassed music, mathematics, philosophy, theology, law, and the natural sciences. He was influenced in philosophy by the ideas of Wolff, Gottfried Leibniz, and Gottsched.

The journal Musikalische Bibliothek [de] [musical library], which he published between 1736 and 1754, is an important document of the musical life in Germany at the time, and includes reviews of books on music written from 1650 up to its publication. Mizler himself contributed commentaries and criticisms on the writings of Wolfgang Printz, Leonhard Euler, Johann Adolf Scheibe, Johann Samuel Schroeter, Meinrad Spieß [de], Gottsched, and Mattheson; especially the latter two's Critische Dichtkunst (1729) and Vollkommene Capellmeister (1739). His essays were detailed and perceptive and offer a useful musicological resource for present-day scholars of Baroque music.[16]

Musical society

 
The portrait of Bach commissioned for his entry into Mizler's Sozietät der Musicalischen Wissenschaften

He founded the Correspondierende Societät der musicalischen Wissenschaften [de] [Corresponding Society of the Musical Sciences] in 1738. Its aim was to enable musical scholars to circulate theoretical papers in order to further musical science by encouraging discussion of the papers via correspondence. Many of the papers appear in the Musikalische Bibliothek. The entry requirements of this society resulted in both the famous 1746/1748 Haussmann portrait of Bach and his Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her" for organ, BWV 769.

Membership was limited to twenty. Belonging to the society were:

Compositions

  • Sammlung auserlesener moralischer Oden, zum Nutzen und Vergnügen der Liebhaber des Claviers I (Leipzig, 1740), II (Leipzig, 1741), III (Leipzig, 1743). Facsimiles published (Leipzig, 1971)

Writings

  • Dissertatio quod musica ars sit pars eruditionis philosophicae (Leipzig, 1734)
  • Lusus ingenii de praesenti bello (Wittenberg, 1735)
  • De usu atque praestantia philosophiae in theologia, jurisprudentia, medicina (Leipzig, 1736)
  • Neu eröffnete musikalische Bibliothek, oder Gründliche Nachricht nebst unpartheyischem Urtheil von musikalischen Schriften und Büchern (Leipzig, 1739)
  • Musikalischer Staarstecher, in welchem rechtschaffener Musikverständigen Fehler bescheiden angemerket, eingebildeter und selbst gewachsener sogenannter Componisten Thorheiten aber lächerlich gemachet werden (Leipzig, 1739–1740)
  • Anfangs-Gründe des General-Basses nach mathematischer Lehr-Art abgehandelt (Leipzig, 1739)
  • Gradus ad Parnassum, oder Anführung zur regelmässigen Composition, aus dem Lateinischen ins Deutsche übersetzt, und mit Anmerkungen versehen (Leipzig, 1742), translation of J. J. Fux: Gradus ad Parnassum (Vienna, 1725)

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e "Mitzler de Kolof, Wawrzyniec," Encyklopedia powszechna PWN [PWN Universal Encyclopedia], volume 3, p. 144.[full citation needed]
  2. ^ "Mitzler de Kolof, Wawrzyniec," Encyklopedia Polski [Encyclopedia of Poland], p. 417.[full citation needed]
  3. ^ Johann Mattheson, Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte, Hamburg, 1740, S. 228. There are some mistakes in this text: see Felbick 2012, pp. 36ff
  4. ^ Felbick 2012, p. 175.
  5. ^ Felbick 2012, p. 432.
  6. ^ Felbick 2012, p. 176.
  7. ^ Note: it became the periodical of his newly founded, Korrespondierenden Sozietät der Musicalischen Wissenschaften, which had the support of Count Giacomo de Lucchesini s well as G. H. Bümler, the Ansbach court Kapellmeister.
  8. ^ "Mizler Zeittafel – 28.06 1747", mizler.de (in German)
  9. ^ Felbick 2012, pp. 361ff.
  10. ^ Felbick 2012, p. 389.
  11. ^ Felbick 2012, p. 573.
  12. ^ Felbick 2012, p. 329.
  13. ^ "Monitor"; Encyklopedia Polski (Encyclopedia of Poland); p. 422.[full citation needed]
  14. ^ Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Zarys dziejów filozofii w Polsce [A Brief History of Philosophy in Poland], [in the series:] Historia nauki polskiej w monografiach [History of Polish Learning in Monographs], [volume] XXXII, Kraków, Polska Akademia Umiejętności [[Polish Academy of Learning]]; 1948; pp. 11–12. Note: This monograph draws from pertinent sections in earlier editions of the author's Historia filozofii [History of Philosophy].
  15. ^ Felbick 2012, p. 233.
  16. ^ Felbick 2012, pp. 126–309.

Sources

  • Felbick, Lutz [de]: Lorenz Christoph Mizler de Kolof – Schüler Bachs und pythagoreischer "Apostel der Wolffischen Philosophie" (Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig – Schriften, Band 5), Georg-Olms-Verlag, Hildesheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-487-14675-1. pdf Online-Version

Further reading

  • J. Birke: Christian Wolffs Metaphysik und die zeitgenössische Literatur- und Musiktheorie: Gottsched, Scheibe, Mizler (Berlin, 1966)
  • Buelow, George J., "Mizler von Kolof [Mitzler de Kolof, Koloff], Lorenz Christoph", Grove Music Online, edited by L. Macy (accessed 8 June 2007)
  • H. Federhofer: L. Chr. Mizlers Kommentare zu den beiden Büchern des 'Gradus ad Parnassum' von J. J. Fux (Graz, 1995)
  • H. R. Jung: "Telemann und die Mizlerische 'Societat' der musikalischen Wissenschaften", Georg Philipp Telemann, ein bedeutender Meister der Aufklärungsepoche (Magdeburg, 1967)
  • Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof. Musikalische Bibliothek 1.Band, 1736–38
  • Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof. Musikalische Bibliothek 2.Band, 1740–43
  • Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof. Musikalische Bibliothek 3.Band, 1746–52
  • Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof. Neu eröffnete musikalische Bibliothek, vol. III, unchanged reprint of the original edition (1739–1754). Hilversum: Fritz Knuf. 1966. (contains vols. 3 and 4)
  • J. G. Walther: Musicalisches Lexicon, oder Musicalische Bibliothec
  • F. Wöhlke: Lorenz Christoph Mizler: ein Beitrag zur musikalischen Gelehrtengeschichte des 18. Jahrhunderts (Würzburg, 1940)

External links

  • Lorenz Christoph Mizler website, 13 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  • Works by Lorenz Christoph Mizler in digital library Polona

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Lorenz Christoph Mizler news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof also known as Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof and Mitzler de Koloff 26 July 1711 8 May 1778 was a German physician historian printer mathematician Baroque music composer and precursor of the Enlightenment in Poland 1 2 First page of Johann Sebastian Bach s Nekrolog as published in Mizler s Musikalische Bibliothek volume IV part 1 1754 Contents 1 Family of origin 2 Education 3 Career 3 1 Move to Poland 4 Honors 5 Publisher 6 Death 7 Music 7 1 Musical society 7 2 Compositions 8 Writings 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksFamily of origin EditMizler was born Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof in Heidenheim Middle Franconia to Johann Georg Mizler a court clerk to the Margrave of Ansbach at Heidenheim and Barbara Stumpf of St Gallen Switzerland 3 Education EditHis first teacher was N Muller a minister from Obersulzbach Lehrberg from whom Mizler learned the flute and violin 4 From 1724 to 1730 Mizler studied at the Ansbach Gymnasium with Rector Oeder and Johann Matthias Gesner who became director of the St Thomas School Leipzig from 1731 to 1734 Mizler enrolled at Leipzig University on 30 April 1731 where he studied theology His teachers there included Gesner Johann Christoph Gottsched and Christian Wolff He earned a BS in December 1733 and a MS in March 1734 During this time he also pursued the study of composition and had some association with Johann Sebastian Bach whom he wrote he had the honor to call his good friend and patron 5 Mizler moved to Wittenberg in 1735 to study law and medicine returning to Leipzig in 1736 6 Career EditFrom May 1737 Mizler began lecturing on music history and Johann Mattheson s Neu eroffnete Orchestre Newly Published Orchestra he was the first to lecture on music at a German university in 150 years He also began a monthly publication the Neu eroffnete musikalische Bibliothek Newly Published Musical Library in 1738 7 At about this time Mizler began a music publishing business and he returned school to take a doctorate of medicine at Erfurt University in 1747 8 Move to Poland Edit In 1743 he left Leipzig and settled permanently in Poland Mitzler de Kolof his nom de guerre in Poland became secretary teacher librarian and court mathematician to Count Malachowski of Konskie from whom he learned Polish and with whom he studied Polish history and literature 9 In 1747 Mizler moved to Warsaw Mitzler also began a medical practice which included consulting as a court physician to King August III When he became court physician this afforded him time to study the natural sciences 10 Mizler established the publishing house Mizlerischer Bucherverlag Warschau und Leipzig in 1740 11 Honors EditMitzler became a member of the Erfurt Academy of Sciences in 1755 and received Polish nobility in 1768 12 Publisher EditIn association with the Zaluski Library Mitzler published and edited Poland s first scientific periodicals Warschauer Bibliothek 1753 55 Acta Litteraria 1755 56 Nowe Wiadomosci Ekonomiczne i Uczone Economic and Learned News 1758 61 and 1766 67 From 1765 he published the Monitor 1765 85 1 which had been founded at the initiative of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski 13 from 1773 until 1777 as its editor 1 In 1756 he set up a printing establishment which in 1768 he conveyed together with a type foundry to Warsaw s Corps of Cadets while retaining the business directorship At this printing establishment Mitzler published scholarly editions of historic sources a collection of chronicles Collectio magna 1761 71 literary works and textbooks for the Corps of Cadets He also operated a bookstore 1 Mitzler de Kolof promoted new ideas including the emancipation of Poland s townspeople 1 From 1743 he was the chief advocate in Poland of Christian Wolff s philosophical doctrines 14 Death EditMitzler died in Warsaw in 1778 Music EditMitzler an amateur composer was deeply interested in music theory advocating the establishment of a musical science based firmly on mathematics philosophy and the imitation of nature in music He translated Johann Joseph Fux s Gradus ad Parnassum into German the original was in Latin having written of it that this methodical guide to musical composition is among all such works the best book that we have for practical music and its composition 15 Mitzler was a polymath his interests encompassed music mathematics philosophy theology law and the natural sciences He was influenced in philosophy by the ideas of Wolff Gottfried Leibniz and Gottsched The journal Musikalische Bibliothek de musical library which he published between 1736 and 1754 is an important document of the musical life in Germany at the time and includes reviews of books on music written from 1650 up to its publication Mizler himself contributed commentaries and criticisms on the writings of Wolfgang Printz Leonhard Euler Johann Adolf Scheibe Johann Samuel Schroeter Meinrad Spiess de Gottsched and Mattheson especially the latter two s Critische Dichtkunst 1729 and Vollkommene Capellmeister 1739 His essays were detailed and perceptive and offer a useful musicological resource for present day scholars of Baroque music 16 Musical society Edit The portrait of Bach commissioned for his entry into Mizler s Sozietat der Musicalischen Wissenschaften He founded the Correspondierende Societat der musicalischen Wissenschaften de Corresponding Society of the Musical Sciences in 1738 Its aim was to enable musical scholars to circulate theoretical papers in order to further musical science by encouraging discussion of the papers via correspondence Many of the papers appear in the Musikalische Bibliothek The entry requirements of this society resulted in both the famous 1746 1748 Haussmann portrait of Bach and his Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her for organ BWV 769 Membership was limited to twenty Belonging to the society were 1738 Giacomo de Lucchesini L C Mizler permanent secretary Georg Heinrich Bumler de 1739 Christoph Gottlieb Schroter Heinrich Bokemeyer G P Telemann G H Stolzel 1742 Georg Friedrich Lingke 1743 Meinrad Spiess de Georg Venzky 1745 G F Handel Udalricus Weiss 1746 C H Graun 1747 J S Bach G A Sorge Johann Paul Kunzen de 1748 J C F Fischer 1751 Johann Christian Winter de 1752 Johann Georg Kaltenbeck 1755 L Mozart invitation declined Compositions Edit Sammlung auserlesener moralischer Oden zum Nutzen und Vergnugen der Liebhaber des Claviers I Leipzig 1740 II Leipzig 1741 III Leipzig 1743 Facsimiles published Leipzig 1971 Writings EditDissertatio quod musica ars sit pars eruditionis philosophicae Leipzig 1734 Lusus ingenii de praesenti bello Wittenberg 1735 De usu atque praestantia philosophiae in theologia jurisprudentia medicina Leipzig 1736 Neu eroffnete musikalische Bibliothek oder Grundliche Nachricht nebst unpartheyischem Urtheil von musikalischen Schriften und Buchern Leipzig 1739 Musikalischer Staarstecher in welchem rechtschaffener Musikverstandigen Fehler bescheiden angemerket eingebildeter und selbst gewachsener sogenannter Componisten Thorheiten aber lacherlich gemachet werden Leipzig 1739 1740 Anfangs Grunde des General Basses nach mathematischer Lehr Art abgehandelt Leipzig 1739 Gradus ad Parnassum oder Anfuhrung zur regelmassigen Composition aus dem Lateinischen ins Deutsche ubersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen Leipzig 1742 translation of J J Fux Gradus ad Parnassum Vienna 1725 See also EditHistory of philosophy in PolandReferences EditNotes a b c d e Mitzler de Kolof Wawrzyniec Encyklopedia powszechna PWN PWN Universal Encyclopedia volume 3 p 144 full citation needed Mitzler de Kolof Wawrzyniec Encyklopedia Polski Encyclopedia of Poland p 417 full citation needed Johann Mattheson Grundlage einer Ehren Pforte Hamburg 1740 S 228 There are some mistakes in this text see Felbick 2012 pp 36ff Felbick 2012 p 175 Felbick 2012 p 432 Felbick 2012 p 176 Note it became the periodical of his newly founded Korrespondierenden Sozietat der Musicalischen Wissenschaften which had the support of Count Giacomo de Lucchesini s well as G H Bumler the Ansbach court Kapellmeister Mizler Zeittafel 28 06 1747 mizler de in German Felbick 2012 pp 361ff Felbick 2012 p 389 Felbick 2012 p 573 Felbick 2012 p 329 Monitor Encyklopedia Polski Encyclopedia of Poland p 422 full citation needed Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz Zarys dziejow filozofii w Polsce A Brief History of Philosophy in Poland in the series Historia nauki polskiej w monografiach History of Polish Learning in Monographs volume XXXII Krakow Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci Polish Academy of Learning 1948 pp 11 12 Note This monograph draws from pertinent sections in earlier editions of the author s Historia filozofii History of Philosophy Felbick 2012 p 233 Felbick 2012 pp 126 309 Sources Felbick Lutz de Lorenz Christoph Mizler de Kolof Schuler Bachs und pythagoreischer Apostel der Wolffischen Philosophie Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig Schriften Band 5 Georg Olms Verlag Hildesheim 2012 ISBN 978 3 487 14675 1 pdf Online VersionFurther reading EditJ Birke Christian Wolffs Metaphysik und die zeitgenossische Literatur und Musiktheorie Gottsched Scheibe Mizler Berlin 1966 Buelow George J Mizler von Kolof Mitzler de Kolof Koloff Lorenz Christoph Grove Music Online edited by L Macy accessed 8 June 2007 H Federhofer L Chr Mizlers Kommentare zu den beiden Buchern des Gradus ad Parnassum von J J Fux Graz 1995 H R Jung Telemann und die Mizlerische Societat der musikalischen Wissenschaften Georg Philipp Telemann ein bedeutender Meister der Aufklarungsepoche Magdeburg 1967 Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof Musikalische Bibliothek 1 Band 1736 38 Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof Musikalische Bibliothek 2 Band 1740 43 Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof Musikalische Bibliothek 3 Band 1746 52 Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof Neu eroffnete musikalische Bibliothek vol III unchanged reprint of the original edition 1739 1754 Hilversum Fritz Knuf 1966 contains vols 3 and 4 J G Walther Musicalisches Lexicon oder Musicalische Bibliothec F Wohlke Lorenz Christoph Mizler ein Beitrag zur musikalischen Gelehrtengeschichte des 18 Jahrhunderts Wurzburg 1940 External links EditLorenz Christoph Mizler website Archived 13 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine Works by Lorenz Christoph Mizler in digital library PolonaPortals Biography Classical music Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lorenz Christoph Mizler amp oldid 1122751932, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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