Andreas Schwilge

Andreas Schwilge , also Schwilgi , (* 1608 or 1609 in Thann , Alsace , † August 19, 1688 in Ulm ) was a German composer and organist .

Life

As a child, Andreas Schwilge received lessons in singing, violin and organ from his father, who came from Stuttgart . From 1623 to 1628 he attended the Jesuit school in Ensisheim and then studied philosophy in Würzburg . Schwilge joined the Franciscans , after his novitiate in Lucerne continued his philosophy studies in Friborg and then studied theology in Vienna for four years. However, a trip to Rome and Milan caused him to turn away from Catholicism . In 1639 he applied in Zurich for a position as a preacher or as a teacher of philosophy and music. After three months of instruction from Pastor Theobald Dürrysen in Winterthur , he was appointed precentor at the Grossmünster in Zurich, as well as music teacher at the German school there. In 1646 he was cantor at the Grossmünster and in 1652 preacher at the Spannweid (the infirmary ), but released a few weeks later after a dispute. Schwilge then moved to Ulm , where he became a teacher at the grammar school there and cantor at the Protestant Ulm Minster . There he conducted weekly concerts from 1659 until his retirement in 1681.

Schwilges son Johann Caspar (* 1642) also became an organist in Ulm in 1676.

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In 1648, Andreas Schwilge published 37 four-part movements based on Johann Wilhelm Simler's Teutsche Gedichten in Zurich , in which the melody is in the treble instead of the tenor , as was previously the case . In a subsequent edition in 1653 he added 30 more movements, and in a third edition in 1663 six motets with figured bass accompaniment , which he called "fugues".

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• Andreas Schwilge:  Schwilge, Andreas. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
• Music in the past and present , 2nd edition, vol. 15, col. 447/448 (article author: Arnold Geering)