Gottfried Taubert Explained

Gottfried Taubert (baptized 30 Juli 1670-died July 6, 1746)[1] [2] was a German dance master of the Baroque period.

Life

Taubert was born in Ronneburg, Thuringia, the son of Christoph Tauber[t][3] and of Anna Brämmer. He attended lectures at Leipzig University from 1686 and from 1693.[4] Until 1695, he studied in the fair city. In 1702, he settled in Danzig, but returned to Leipzig in 1715, where he published his extensive dance book Rechtschaffener Tanzmeister[5] in 1717. It also contains the first German translation of the French Choreography by Raoul-Auger Feuillet as well as the instructions of the dances after Raoul-Auger Feuillet and Louis Pécour. From about 1730 until his death, he was court dance master in Zerbst.[6]

Taubert may have exerted the most lasting influence among German dance book authors. It is ultimately the most comprehensive record of the German reception of Baroque French dance. Tilden Russell brought out an English translation of this work in 2012, providing it with an introductory volume built on extensive preliminary studies.[7] [8] [9] At the beginning of the 18th century, Leipzig was virtually a "stronghold of the academic art of dance", as Walter Salmen called it...).[10] Taubert played a big part in making this happen.[11]

Taubert died in Zerbst at the age of 75.

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Notes and References

  1. Konstanze Musketa: „daß ein rechtschaffener Tantzmeister müsse ein guter Musicus seyn“: Anmerkungen zum Wirken des Tanzmeisters Gottfried Taubert (1670–1746). In Zerbst zur Zeit Faschs – ein anhaltinischer Musenhof. ortus, Beeskow 2015,,, here .
  2. Hanna Walsdorf: Neue Quellenfunde zur Biographie Gottfried Tauberts. In Hanna Walsdorf, Marie-Thérèse Mourey, Tilden Russell (ed.): Tauberts „Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister“ (Leipzig 1717): Kontexte – Lektüren – Praktiken. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2019,,, here . - (6 July 1746)
  3. In the Ronneburg baptismal register he is listed as Tauber.
  4. According to (ed.): Die Jüngere Matrikel der Universität Leipzig 1559-1809. Vol. 2. the matriculations from the winter semester 1634 to the summer semester 1709. Leipzig 1909,, quote: "Tauber (cf. Teuber) Godfr. Ronneburg Misn. dp. 16 gr. I W 1686 M 43, I S 1693 M 197." That, as here, the field of study was not indicated is nothing unusual at this time."
  5. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/311989853 Rechtschaffener Tanzmeister ... / 2
  6. Stephanie Schroedter: Vom „Affect zur Action“: Quellenstudien zur Poetik der Tanzkunst vom späten Ballet de Cour bis zum frühen Ballet en Action. Würzburg 2004, f. .
  7. Tilden Russell (ed.): The Compleat Dancing Master: A Translation of Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister (1717). VO. 1: Introduction, vol. 2: Translation. Frankfurt 2012.
  8. Tilden Russell: The Minuet according to Taubert. In Dance Research: The Journal of Society of Dance Research. Vol. 24, No 2 (Winter, 2006), .
  9. Dominique Bourassa: The Menuet de la Cour (Terpsichore. Dance Historical Studies for the German Dance Archive Cologne. Vol: 4). Hildesheim 1997.
  10. Salmen 1997, .
  11. Todte 2016, .