[독일]Johann Christian Fischer

 

Johann Christian Fischer

 

Portrait, by Thomas Gainsborough, Fischer's father-in-law, 1780, the year he married Mary Gainsborough^[1] (Royal Collection)(c. 1733 – 29 April 1800)

 

German composer and oboist, one of the best-known oboe soloists in Europe during the 1770s.

 

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Employed as a music copyist and theatre director for the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Ludwigslust, Fischer is now credited with the unique Symphony with Eight Obbligato Timpani, formerly attributed to Johann Wilhelm Hertel, court composer at Schwerin.^[3] He spent some time in Dresden, but left after the Prussian occupation in the Seven Years' War for extensive concertizing tours,^[4] ending in London, where he was active as a performer, composer, and a teacher, and introduced the Continental narrow-bore model of oboe that replaced the bright and penetrating straight-topped English type.^[5]

 

In London Fischer joined the largely German "Queen's Band" of George III's German Queen, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.^[6] Fischer published several teaching manuals for the oboe, with varying titles: The Compleat Tutor for the Hautboy (ca 1770), New and Complete Instructions for the Oboe or Hoboy (ca 1780)^[7] and The Hoboy Preceptor (1800). Among his students was composer and oboist Charles J. Suck.

 

An etching/aquatint A Sunday concert by Charles Loraine Smith, published 4 June 1782,^[8] shows a distinguished musical group gathered round a harpsichord, with Fischer and Charles Burney among them.

 

Mozart composed a set of Twelve Variations in C on a Menuett of Johann Christian Fischer (K.179 [189a]).