Amalia Katharina von Waldeck-Eisenberg
Amalia Katharina von Waldeck-Eisenberg, by marriage Countess von Erbach-Erbach (born August 8, 1640 in Culemborg , † January 4, 1697 ibid) was a song poet of Pietism .
Life
Born as the daughter of Count Philipp Dietrich von Waldeck -Eisenberg and his wife Maria Magdalena von Nassau-Siegen , she had already lost both parents at the age of seven and spent her youth in the free-world ladies' monastery in Schaaken .
At Christmas 1664 she married Count Georg Ludwig I of Erbach-Erbach in Arolsen . Only a few of her 15 children survived the first years of life:
- Philipp Ludwig (1669–1720), ruling Count of Erbach-Erbach from 1693
- Karl Albert Ludwig (1670–1704)
- Friedrich Karl (1680–1731). It was in him that the mother's musical talent most likely lived on. He composed for keyboard instruments and maintained friendly contact with Georg Philipp Telemann during his time in Frankfurt.
Georg Ludwig I died in 1693. The widowed countess then withdrew to her birthplace in Culemborg, where she died on January 4th, 1697.
Works
In 1692 she published a Pietism-influenced collection of 76 sacred songs in Hildburghausen with the title “Devotional Sing-Lust”. Due to the language used at the time, it is not entirely certain whether the simple melodies, exposed with figured bass , or only the lyrics come from her.
literature
- Linda Maria Koldau: Women-Music-Culture. A manual on the German language area of the early modern period , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne et al., 2005, pp. 274–276
- Julie Ann Sadie (Ed.): Companion to baroque music , University of California Press, 1998
Web links
- Walter Blankenburg : Amalia Catharina. In: Grove Music Online , ed. L. Macy (accessed March 5, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscriber access)
- Two text examples from the song collection
Individual evidence
- ↑ See family list of the Waldeck family
- ↑ Entry in genealogy.net ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Sadie, p. 240
- ↑ Koldau, p. 274: "since 'composing' in the linguistic usage of the 17th and 18th centuries can refer to both musical composition and poetry, especially of songs."
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waldeck-Eisenberg, Amalia Katharina von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Erbach-Erbach, Amalia Katharina von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Pietist song poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1640 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Culemborg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 4, 1697 |
| Place of death | Culemborg |