Balthasar muscle
Balthasar Musculus (actually Balthasar Meusel ; * around 1540 ; † between 1595 and 1597) was a German schoolmaster in Ziegenrück , who became known as a composer of sacred songs.
Works
Only a few copies of his compositions have survived today. The second edition of his 40 beautiful sacred songs with four voices of the dear youth has been preserved, as well as the Cithara sacra from 1591. In contrast to the ornate motets , the choir songs are often simple in melody and composition. He had dedicated it to "the dear youth", whose choir included men.
Musculus created the archetypes of some well-known hymns , which can still be found in the Evangelical Hymnbook (EG) today and which masters such as Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach included in their great works. So go z. B. Wake up the melodies , the voice calls us (EG 147) and now God the Lord (EG 320, melody and movement) let us back to him. Michael Praetorius took over in the 8th part of his Musae Sioniae (1610) z. T. whole sets of muscle. Under CCLXXIII (page 201) there is e.g. B. the sentence “Now let us give thanks to God and honor him”.
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- Johann Gottfried Walther : Musical Lexicon or Musical Library . Study edition with new typesetting of the text and the notes. Edited by Friederike Ramm. Bärenreiter Verlag Kassel 2001. p. 390.
- Harald Rudolph: The history of the city of Ziegenrück . Without publisher. Without a year. P. 116.
- Robert Eitner: Musculus, Balthasar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 94.
- Excerpt from an article on Balthasar Musculus by Friedemann Fischer, Ziegenrück in the summer of 2013
Web links
- Balthasar Musculus in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Literature by and about Balthasar Musculus in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Online Library of Liberty. Retrieved June 23, 2013
- ↑ OCLC 30730399. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
- ↑ Online Library of Liberty , accessed June 23, 2013.
- ↑ Helmut Lauterwasser: 320 - Now let us God the Lord . In: Wolfgang Herbst , Ilsabe Seibt (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch . No. 16 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-50302-7 , pp. 27–34 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ See Michael Praetorius: Musae Sioniae . Part VIII (1610). Edited by Friedrich Blume. Georg Kallmeyer Verlag Wolfenbüttel - Berlin 1932. p. 201.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Musculus, Balthasar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meusel, Balthasar (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Composer of sacred songs |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1540 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: Neustadt an der Orla |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1595 and 1597 |
| Place of death | uncertain: Ziegenrück |