Caspar Ruetz

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Caspar Ruetz , also: Kaspar (* March 21, 1708 in Wismar ; † December 21, 1755 in Lübeck ) was a German cantor, composer and music director.

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Ruetz was the son of Joachim Ruetz, the informator at the orphanage in Wismar, who came from Lübeck and had learned to play the organ from Dietrich Buxtehude . He was first taught by his father and from 1720 attended the Great City School . In the prima, the then rector Hermann Samuel Reimarus was his teacher. He received musical lessons from the organist of the Marienkirche in Wismar Hölken and other instruments from the town musician Wilken.

From 1728 he studied first law, then theology at the universities of Jena and Rostock . After completing his studies, he worked as a private tutor, as is often the case, first in Hamburg in the household of the councilor and later mayor Conrad Widow , where he met Georg Philipp Telemann , then on a noble estate of the von Levetzow family in Holstein and finally with the pastor Thomsen in Azbüll (now Asbøl) on the north side of the Flensburg Fjord in the hope of becoming his adjunct and eventual successor.

However, when the Lübeck cantor Heinrich Sivers died in 1736 , he applied for his position and was appointed as his successor in early 1737. In the same year he married Sievers daughter. His office included the maintenance of choral music at St. Mary's and quarterly in the other main churches, while figural music was reserved for the organist. At the same time he was a teacher at the Katharineum in Lübeck .

From 1750 to 1753 he published his main work, the three-part pamphlet Refuted prejudices of the origin (1750), the nature (1752) and the effect (1753) of church music. He dedicated the first volume to the mayor Heinrich Balemann and the councilors, who were appointed head of the main churches, the second to the Hamburg mayor Conrad Widow and the third to the citizenship, the offices and all citizens and patriots. In the Scriptures, he is passionate about improving church music. Today the work is considered to be one of the most important sources for the history of Lübeck evening music as well as for the state of church music in the middle of the 18th century.

In 1754 he gave himself to Johann Daniel Overbeck a public discussion about the applicability of the imitation aesthetic of Charles Batteux to music.

Ruetz died in December 1755 of a stroke he suffered during the afternoon service on the fourth Sunday in Advent in St. Marien. His successor was Johann Hermann Schnobel , the last holder of the office of cantor.

Works

  • Refuted prejudices as to the origin of church music, and clear evidence that music for worship is based on God's word and therefore of divine origin is opposed to indifference in regard to this type of worship. Lübeck: Schmidt 1750
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Refuted prejudices about the nature of today's church music and the way of life of some Musicorum. Lübeck: Böckmann 1752
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Refuted prejudices about the effect of church music, and about the costs involved, together with a preface by the musical lovers. Rostock and Wismar: Berger and Boedner 1753
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Two cantatas ... performed for a worthy commemoration of the Krohn and Stiutischen and first mayoral jubilee wedding in Lübeck ... Lübeck 1750
  • NN (ie Caspar Ruetz): Letter from a friend to the other about some of Mr. Batteux's expressions about music. In: Historically-critical contributions to the recording of the music. Vol. 1, St. 4 (1755), pp. [273] -311
in addition: *** (ie Johann Daniel Overbeck ): Answer to the letter of a friend to the other, about the expressions of Mr. Batteux about music. In: Historically-critical contributions to the recording of the music. Vol. 1, St. 4 (1755), pp. 312-317
  • NN (ie Ruetz, Caspar): Answer to the previous answer. In: Historically-critical contributions to the recording of the music. In: Historically-critical contributions to the recording of the music. Vol. 1, St. 4 (1755), pp. 318-325

literature

  • Curriculum vitae of Mr. Casparis Ruetz Cantoris and Musicdirectoris zu Lübeck. In: Historically-critical contributions to the recording of the music. Volume 1, 4th piece (1755), pp. 357-361
  • Anonymus: [Obituary and obituary for Caspar Ruetz] In: Historical-critical contributions to the recording of the music. Vol. 2, St. 1 (1756), p. 94
  • Wilhelm Stahl: Kaspar Ruetz: A Liibeck contemporary and official of JS Bach. In: Gedenkboek aangeboden aan Dr. DF Scheurleer op zijn 70th Verjaardag. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff 1925, pp. 328-338
  • Wilhelm steel: music history of Lübeck. Volume II: Sacred Music. Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter 1952
  • Carstenzell: The imitation of nature and the freedom of art. On the criticism of German musicians of the aesthetics of Charles Battuex. In: Frank Heidlberger (ed.): From Isaac to Bach: Studies on older German music history; Festschrift for Martin Just's 60th birthday. Kassel; Basel; London; New York: Bärenreiter 1991 ISBN 3-7618-1023-7 , pp. 257-266

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollment of Caspar Ruetz in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ According to the catalog entry of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, it should be called Stintischen ; it's about the golden wedding of Johann Adolph Krohn and his wife Anna Sophie, geb. Stindten, April 28, 1750
personal data
SURNAME Ruetz, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cantor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1708
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1755
Place of death Lübeck