Bartholomäus Aich

Bartholomäus Aich was a German organist and composer of the 17th century . Little is known about his life: he came from Uttenweiler near Biberach an der Riss and was the organist of the Lindau women's foundation .

Live and act

For the wedding of Count Maximilian Willibald von Waldburg-Wolfegg with Clara Isabella Princess von Arenberg and Arenberg on December 6, 1648 in Lindau , he composed the musical-dramatic festival play Armamentarium comicum amoris et honoris based on a text whose authorship has not yet been clarified. The play was premiered by the Lindau Jesuit School during the wedding celebrations on December 8, 1648. The Latin festival combined the tradition of the Jesuit drama with the monody of the Italian music of the early Baroque and is one of the earliest traditional operas and oratorios of the Italian style in Germany. Due to the content tailored to the occasion, an allegorical-heraldic depiction of the merging of the two family coats of arms of the bride and groom in an alliance coat of arms , interspersed with biblical content , the work was not used any further and was therefore not known after the first performance.

Banquet hall at Wolfegg Castle when the festival was staged again in September 2005

The festival is the only surviving work of Aich that is kept in the music holdings of the Princely Collections of Waldburg-Wolfegg. On September 11, 2005, it was performed again for the first time as part of the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival in the banquet hall of Wolfegg Castle by the Hassler Consort under the direction of Franz Raml .

literature

• Bartholomäus Aich: Amor et honor . Program for the performance on September 11, 2005 of the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival at Wolfegg Castle. Contributions by Johannes Hoyer and Florian Mehltretter.

Web links

• Seminar on opera at the University of Augsburg ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )