Konrad Rupff

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Konrad Rupff also Conrad Rupzsch , Conrad Rupff, Ruppich, Rupsch (* around 1475 in Kahla ; † July 1530 in Torgau or Altenburg ) was a German singer and conductor for Elector Friedrich the Wise . With Martin Luther and the cantor Johann Walter , he created compositions for church singing.

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Since 1491 Rupff belonged to the court orchestra founded in the late 1480s . At that time, the electoral dignity was in the Ernestine line of the Wettins . After the death of Adam von Fulda , the composer and music theorist at the court of the elector, Rupff took over his office in 1505. In 1505 Rupff was ordained a priest and received a parish loan to St. Margarethe in Kahla. The exact time of his appointment as Hofkapellmeister of Altenburg-Weimar is not known, but it is documented that as such he appointed Johann Walter, who also came from Kahla, as bassist in the court orchestra in 1517 .

In 1514 Georg Spalatin was appointed court chaplain and was thus Rupff's immediate superior. Rupff came into direct contact with the Wittenberg Movement , in 1520 he met Andreas Bodenstein . In 1522 he married Ell von Dohlenstein, the daughter of an electoral army drummer or army trumpeter.

Shortly before his death in 1525, Frederick the Wise commented on a redesign of the German order of worship and the German mass . For the musical elaboration, Luther asked Johann Walter and Konrad Rupff to Wittenberg. According to a report by Johann Walter, Luther wanted to talk to them about music and the nature of the eight Gregorian psalm tones. Luther had prepared the music for the epistles and gospels, as well as for the words of the institution of the Lord's Supper. He also sang the compositions himself and asked for the opinion of the musicians. The round worked in Wittenberg for about three weeks. Both musicians said they were delighted with Luther's musical education. As a result, on Friday, October 29, 1525, the "German Mass" was sung in the parish church in Wittenberg ; the printing was completed in 1526.

Various documents testify to his care for his subordinates. Even before the chapel was dissolved by Johann the Steadfast in 1526, Rupsch had asked for his release, apparently because of the poor staffing of the chapel.

Works (selection)

  • Haec dicit Dominus (1538)
  • Cognoscimus Domine quia peccavimus II: Vita nostra in dolore suspirat in D-Rp B 220-22.
  • Maria salve virginum tu virgo gloriosa D-LEu 1494 (Apel-Codex; Motet in EDM, 1st Ser., Xxxiii, 1956)

literature

  • August Wilhelm Ambros : History of Music. 1816-1876; Nottebohm, Gustav, 1817–1882; Sokolowsky, B. von; Becker, Carl Ferdinand, 1804–1877; Reimann, Heinrich, 1850–1906; Kade, Otto, 1825-1900. FEC Leuckarts, Leipzig 1881-1893, p. 226 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Anne Eusterschulte, Hannah Wälzholz (Ed.): Anthropological Reformations - Anthropology in the Era of Reformation. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-64755-058-9 ; P. 87.
  • Donald Oscar Rotermund: Luther's ideas in the development of music in the Lutheran church. North Texas State College, August, 1958, Academic Work [3]
  • Friedrich Seebaß: Martin Luther. Man and the reformer. Brunnen Verlag, Gießen / Basel 1968 [4]

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family names and names were passed on almost exclusively orally up until the early modern period and usually consisted of only a first or first name. Since illiteracy was high and many people could not read and write, when writing down due to hearing errors, dialect-specific spellings, unclear pronunciation, spelling and reading errors by the writer, different spellings and variants of the name resulted for each person.
  2. ↑ Horst Herrmann: Martin Luther. A biography. Berlin 2003, p. 490; Friedrich Schorlemmer: Here I stand - Martin Luther. Berlin 2003, p. 97.
  3. ^ Martin Just:  Rupsch, Conrad. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 15 (Schoof - Stranz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1135-7  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  4. ^ Clytus Gottwald:  Rupsch [Ruppisch, Rupff], Conrad [Konrad]. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  5. ↑ Andreas Lindner, Elisabeth Th. Hilscher: Article army trumpet and timpani. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
  6. ^ Friedrich Seebaß: Martin Luther. Man and the reformer. Brunnen Verlag, Gießen / Basel 1968, p. 47 f. [1]
  7. ↑ Natalie Krentz: Ritual change and sovereignty of interpretation: The Early Reformation in the residence Wittenberg (1500-1533). Vol. 74 Late Middle Ages, Humanism, Reformation, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-16152-679-4 , p. 338.
  8. ^ Thuringian composers and arrangers, in alphabetical order; Rupsch, Conrad (Rupzsch, Rupff, Ruppich) [2]
personal data
SURNAME Rupff, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rupzsch, Conrad; Rupff, Conrad; Rupsch, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1475
PLACE OF BIRTH Kahla
DATE OF DEATH July 1530
Place of death Torgau or Altenburg