Andreas Oswald

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Johann Andreas Oswald (also: Andreas Uswalt, baptized on December 9, 1634 in Weimar ; † buried on August 31, 1665 in Eisenach ) was a Thuringian organist and composer .

Life

Andreas Oswald was the son of the Weimar court organist and later Eisenach city organist Andreas Oswald. Like his father, he was initially employed as an organist at the Weimar court, where he was one of Johann Sebastian Bach's predecessors . Later he followed his father to the position of city organist in Eisenach , where he worked for three years. He died in Eisenach at the age of 30.

We owe almost all of our knowledge of the chamber music work of the Weimar court organist Andreas Uswalt to the Gotha score book Ludwig . It contains 17 sonatas by the young musician, who was forced to move to Eisenach in 1662 because the Weimar court orchestra was closed after the regent's death.

Various sonatas in particular have come down to us from his compositions . His “Aria variata” on a song-like theme, a melodious upperstimmer guidance rich in thirds and sixths, can be counted as an important German contribution to the baroque German trio sonata .

Works

  • Sonata à 3 violini e basso continuo, manuscript in the Düben Collection Uppsala
  • 13 sonatas, handed down as a manuscript in Weimar
  • 17 sonatas, handwritten copies in the score book of Jacobo Ludovico (Jacob Ludwig) Gotha 1662

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notes by Michael Fuerst in the supplement to the CD recording Andreas Oswald , Sonaten, Chelycus-Ensemble, Organumm Classics 261036, 2006 ( short version ).

literature

  • Michael Fuerst: Supplement to CD Andreas Oswald: Sonatas. Chelycus Ensemble, Organum.
  • Almut Jedicke: Andreas Oswald (1634–1665): Sonatas; Chelycus, Organum Classics ogm 261,036 in the art of music online , Section bell , Issue 0608, August 1st of 2006.
  • Wolfgang Lidke: Weimar. In: Music in the past and present . 1, Vol. 14, Kassel 1968, Sp. 392.

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personal data
SURNAME Oswald, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uswalt, Andreas; Oswald, Johann Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Thuringian organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH baptized December 9, 1634
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH buried August 31, 1665
Place of death Eisenach