Carl Friedrich Rudorff (1749-1796)
- Kantate 'Lobet ihr Himmelden Herrn'
Performers: Hаnnа Zumsаnde (soprano); Nicοlе Piеpеr (alto); Jаcοb
Lаwrеncе (tenor); Hеnryk Böhm (bass);
Gοttingеr Barockorchеster;
Antοnius Adаmskе (conductor)
Further info: Gottinger Stadtmusik
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German organist and composer. Almost the whole biographic information
about Rudorff's career is documented in his own application letter for
the city cantor post in Göttingen. Rudorff grew up in a family of
lawyers; his father Johann Friedrich Rudorff was bailiff of the nobles
of Spiegel in Westphalia. The family lived in the office building of the
village of Cörbecke (now Körbecke) near Warburg. During the Seven
Years' War (1756-1763), Johann Friedrich Rudorff died in 1759,
presumably as a result of the Cörbeck dysentery epidemic. Carl Friedrich
Rudorff went to high school in Mühlhausen, Thuringia, where, according
to his autobiography, he took over the position of cantor at the main
church. Rudorff earned his living in Mühlhausen by giving musical
lessons. The early musical activities suggest a basic musical education
in Westphalia. Though it cannot be proven. On April 27, 1773, at the age
of 24, Rudorff enrolled in theology at Helmstedt University, after
which he worked as a private tutor in Rotenburg an der Fulda in Hesse.
The Rotenburg period must have been Rudorff's most important
compositional training period. Rudorff himself writes that he learned
from “the patterns of our good composers”. Rudorff's re-matriculation as
a student in Göttingen on October 16, 1778 is certainly documented. The
professor August Ludwig von Schlözer describes Carl Friedrich Rudorff
as an "uninterruptedly diligent listener." He hired Rudorff as a private
tutor for his children even before he began his studies. On July 10,
1780, the city cantor of Göttingen, Johann Friedrich Schweinitz, died
unexpectedly while on a spa trip in Bad Pyrmont. Rudorff immediately
applied for the vacant position. In addition to Schlözer, the professors
Christian Friedrich Georg Meister, Ernst Gottfried Baldinger and
Christian Gottlob Heyne, the university president himself, wrote a
recommendation. Rudorff had three competitors, including the experienced
Hildesheim cantor Heinrich Ernst Jordan, who himself had studied with
the late cantor Schweinitz. Rudorff won the post. His duties were
teaching at the Latin school, specifically in Latin, theology and music,
performing the cantor's duties at the main church of St. John's and, in
a fixed liturgical sequence, the other four city churches of St.
Jacobi, St. Marien, St. Albani and St. Nikolai as well as the overall
supervision the Göttingen church music. Rudorff died on July 13, 1796
and was buried with an honorable burial in the Bartholomäusfriedhof.
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