Gottfried Vopelius
Gottfried Vopelius (born January 28, 1645 in Herwigsdorf, today part of Rosenbach (Upper Lusatia) , † February 3, 1715 in Leipzig ) was a German Lutheran cantor and teacher in Leipzig.
Live and act
Vopelius was the son of pastor Christoph Vopelius (1591–1681) and his wife Maria, geb. Monk, used Theurich. Christian became pastor of his siblings and Tobias became a musical instrument maker. From 1662 to 1666 he attended the Zittau grammar school and was prefect of the school choir. In 1667 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig .
In 1671 he became a collaborator at the Nikolaischule . In 1677 he was appointed cantor of the Nikolaikirche to succeed Elias Nathusius . In addition to teaching, he was responsible for the worship music of the students.
As a result of his office, he published the Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch in 1682 , which is not a community hymn book in today's sense, but a cantional for the student choir. Further editions appeared in 1693 and 1707. The work, to which Vopelius himself probably contributed most of the anonymous movements in it, had a considerable influence on the choral music of the late 17th and early 18th centuries in Central Germany. The versions from Vopelius' hymnbook can be identified as models for more than 30 choral movements by Johann Sebastian Bach .
Fonts
- New Leipzig hymnbook: composed of the most beautiful and best songs / In which not only Blessed Herr D. Lutheri and others agree with God's word / and unchanged Augsburg Confession ... and common chants / Latin hymns and psalms / With 4. 5th to 6th voices / their melodies partly from Johann Herman Scheins Cantional, and other good Autoribus met together / partly but composed by themselves ... / Carefully prepared and edited by Gottfried Vopelio .... With a preface by D. Georgii Moebii ... Leipzig: Klinger, 1682 (VD17 12: 120222E)
literature
- Robert Eitner: Vopelius, Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 298 f.
- Clemens Harasim: Vopelius, Gottfried . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- Herbert Koch : Gottfried Vopelius, Nikolai Cantor in Leipzig (1645-1716). With 9 plates (= from the history of the Vopelius family: family history sheets, booklet 2), Jena: Vopelius 1935.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ according to other information (VD17) 1635
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vopelius, Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cantor of the Leipzig City School St. Nikolai |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1645 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herwigsdorf, today part of Rosenbach (Oberlausitz) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1715 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |