Gottfried Reiche

Haussmann, Elias Gottlob (1695-1774)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1726

Height:

82.5 cm  (32 1/2 in.)

Width:

67.0 cm  (26 3/8 in.)

82.5 x 67 cm without frame; 94 x 80 cm with frame

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Place of creation:

Leipzig

Description

Portrait of Gottfried Reiche holding a coiled trumpet and a sheet of music. Reiche was first trumpeter for J.S. Bach in Leipzig. Haussmann also painted a well-known portrait of J.S. Bach.

People as subjects

Reiche, Gottfried (1667-1734) (Musician)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Natural trumpet [4419] (coiled type known as Jägertrompete)

Musical works

Reiche, Gottfried -- Abblasenlegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Altschuler, Eric Lewin. "Trumpet major? Did Bach write the fanfare in Gottfried Reiche's portrait?", The musical times 142 (1876) 29-31. RILM 2001-3362.

Dahlqvist, Reine. "Gottfried Reiche's instrument: A problem of classification", Historic Brass Society journal 5 (1993) 174-191. RILM 1993-1983.

Egger, Rainer. "Corno bzw. Tromba da caccia", Jagd- und Waldhörner: Geschichte und musikalische Nutzung: 25. Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium, Michaelstein, 8. bis 10. Oktober 2004 (Augsburg: Wissner; Michaelstein: Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein, 2006) 361-372. RILM 2006-9046.

Heyde, Herbert. "Das Instrument von Gottfried Reiche", Beiträge zur Bach-Forschung (1988) 96-109. RILM 1988-7750.

Karstädt, Georg. "Das Instrument Gottfried Reiches: Horn oder Trompete?", Bericht über den internationalen musikwissenschaftlichen Kongreß (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Kongress, 1962, Kassel), hrsg. von Georg Reichert und Martin Just (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1962) 311-313.

Tarr, Edward H. "Bach and the others: Eighteenth-century trumpeter-hornists", Brass bulletin: Magazine international de cuivres 119 (3rd quarter, 2002) 44-55; 120 (4th quarter, 2002) 38-47.

RIdIM record id

527