Ambrosius Profe

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Ambrosius Profe , also Latinized as Ambrosius Profius , (* February 12, 1589 in Breslau , Principality of Breslau ; † December 27, 1661 ibid) was a German organist , composer and music editor .

life and work

Ambrosius Profe studied theology at the University of Wittenberg from 1612 . From 1617 he worked as a teacher at the Elisabet Gymnasium in Breslau. In the same year he took on the role of cantor and teacher in Jauer . In 1629 he returned to Breslau after the re-Catholicization of Silesia. From 1633 to 1649 he worked there at the Elisabeth Church as an organist. In addition to this church music activity, he ran a trading business until his death.

As a composer he wrote the Fame and Thanks Song (Breslau 1634), the 6-part Spiritus sancti gratia (manuscript) and the two movements, nos. 22 and 25, in the Cunis solemnibus .

Works

As a music writer, Profe published the following collections:

  • Sacred concerts and harmonies à 1… 7 vocibus, cum et sine violinis, et Basso ad organum (four parts, Leipzig 1641–1646)
  • Cunis solennibus Jesuli recens.nati sacra genethliaca (without location, 1646)
  • Corollarium Geistlicher Collectaneorum (Leipzig, 1649)
  • Heinrich Albert's arias (two volumes, partial edition Leipzig 1656; 2nd edition Leipzig / Brieg 1657; 3rd edition Breslau 1658)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Wilibald Gurlitt : Ambrosius Profe. 1961.
personal data
SURNAME Profe, Ambrosius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Profe, Ambros; Profius, Ambrosius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, composer and music editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1589
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1661
Place of death Breslau , Principality of Breslau