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Grove Music Online
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[extrait de:] Margaret GRAVE, Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 17 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Vogler, Georg Joseph [Abbé Vogler]
(b Würzburg, 15 June 1749; d Darmstadt, 6 May 1814). German theorist, teacher, keyboard player, organ designer and composer.
[…] Vogler attended a Jesuit Gymnasium before enrolling in humanistic studies at Würzburg University in 1763. […] During his student years he composed ballet and theatre music for university performances. In 1770 he obtained a post as almoner at the Mannheim court of Carl Theodor, the Elector Palatine. Politically resourceful, he soon attained prominence in the court’s musical life, secured the elector’s favour, and was granted the financial means to pursue musical study in Italy (from 1773). […]
Vogler returned to the Mannheim court in November 1775 and in this new phase of his career, he acquired the titles of spiritual counsellor and second Kapellmeister. He founded a music school, the Mannheimer Tonschule, and began publishing didactic writings […]
[…] In 1780 he travelled to Paris to win approbation for his theory of harmony from the Académie Royale des Sciences, and during the next three years he had works performed both in Paris and at Versailles. He then went to London (1783), where the Royal Society approved his theoretical system. Summoned to Munich to succeed Andrea Bernasconi as first Kapellmeister in 1784, he remained there only until 1786, when he entered the service of Gustavus III, King of Sweden, as music director and teacher of the crown prince. At Stockholm he resumed his pedagogical work but was also permitted to continue his travels, and in 1792, following the assassination of his royal patron, he set off on a journey that took him to Gibraltar, Cádiz (where he was mistaken for a spy and arrested), Tangier and further into the Mediterranean in search of ancient, orally transmitted traditions of modal singing.
In 1793 Vogler returned to Stockholm, where he retained an official post under Gustavus Adolphus IV until 1799. His subsequent wanderings as a performer, organ designer and teacher included sojourns in Copenhagen (1799–1800), Berlin (1800–01), Prague (1801–2) and Vienna (1802/3–5) […]
After spending two years in Munich, he received a court appointment at Darmstadt in August 1807."
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