La Trobe, Johann Friedrich
Life
Born: May 30, 1769, Chelsea, England
Died: December 19, 1845 Dorpat, Livland (now Tartu, Estonia)
Biography Johann Friedrich La Trobe came from a Provençal Huguenot family. When his father died, he moved to Germany at a young age. He learned music at the school of the Moravian Brethren in Niesky near Görlitz and from 1787 to 1790 at the Moravian Seminary in Barby on the Elbe. He then studied medicine at the University of Jena, where he passed his exam in 1795.
From 1793 La Trobe was active in the Baltic States: as tutor, doctor, church mayor, judge, estate manager and organist. Stations included Heimtali, Põltsamaa, Võisiku and Pilistvere. From 1829 he lived in the Livonian village of Dorpat, where he was heavily involved in the musical life of the university town. There he founded various music and song associations as well as the singing academy in 1835. In 1820 Johann Friedrich La Trobe married Alwine Marie von Stackelberg (1797–1871), who was born in Braunschweig, in Poll. Their daughter Sophie (1821–1890) married the Baltic German lawyer, publicist and composer Woldemar von Bock (1816–1903).
List of sacred works
- Agnus Dei, SSATTB, 1829, Breitkopf 1847
- Stabat Mater. SSATTB, 1830, Breitkopf 1847
