Christian Ehregott Weinlig

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Christian Ehregott Weinlig (born September 30, 1743 in Dresden ; † March 14, 1813 there ) was a German composer and Kreuzkantor .

Life

Gravestone of the Weinlig family, 2014 in the Palais in the Great Garden

Weinlig was born in Dresden as the son of the Dresden town clerk, Stadtsyndikus ' and from 1744 Dresden mayor Christian Weinlig (1681–1762). His brother was the builder Christian Traugott Weinlig, born in 1739 . He received his musical training as an external student at the Kreuzschule and learned figured bass and composition from Gottfried August Homilius . At this time he was already writing cantatas that Homilius had performed. At his father's request, Weinlig began studying theology at the University of Leipzig in 1765 . During his studies he composed, among other things, ballets with vocal parts for the Koch drama troupe, which were well received. At the instigation of the magistrate, he was therefore hired from 1767 to 1773 as organist of the Reformed Church in Leipzig. He then worked as an organist in Thorn until 1780 . Among other things, cantatas and piano sonatas as well as a passion oratorio were created, which were published in print. The oratorio was performed in Gdansk and Dresden, among others.

From 1780 Weinlig was Accompagnist of the Dresden Court Opera and until 1785 organist of the Frauenkirche in Dresden, but continued to devote himself to composing. When his teacher Homilius suffered a stroke in 1784, he proposed Weinlig as his substitute as Kreuzkantor. Weinlig passed the cantorate examination, which was chaired by Johann Gottlieb Naumann , and was Homilius' deputy in 1784. When Homilius died the following year, Weinlig was appointed cantor of the Kreuzkirche and the Kreuzschule. His passion music, Der Christ am Grabe Jesu, composed for Good Friday in 1786, with text by Traugott Benjamin Berger (1754–1810), was particularly appreciated by his contemporaries. Due to his close collaboration with the singers of the Dresden Opera, Weinlig's work moved away from the serious church style over time. During Weinlig's time as a cantor, the new Kreuzkirche was inaugurated in November 1792, at which his cantata Awe-inspiring, oh God, we enter , was performed, in which 120 singers are said to have participated.

Ever since 1793, Weinlig had to hand over the leadership of the Passion Oratorios to his nephew Christian Theodor Weinlig in 1809 . Weinlig died in Dresden in 1813 and was buried in the Weinlig family crypt in the Elias cemetery. "A Saturn with a banner in Latin" has survived from the grave and is stored in the palace in the Great Garden .

Weinlig wrote operas , oratorios ( Der Christ am Grabe Jesu , 1786; Jesus Christ suffering and dying , 1787), cantatas (Augusta) , songs , piano pieces and sonatas in a sensitive style . His students included Gottlob Benedict Bierey , Friedrich August Kanne and Gottlob August Krille . Krille succeeded Weinlig as the new Kreuzkantor, but died after two months in office. His successor was Weinligs nephew Christian Theodor Weinlig, who also was a composer and later choirmaster was.

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  1. ↑ a b Dieter Härtwig : “Here is a second Homilius!” Memory of the Kreuzkantor Christian Ehregott Weinlig, who died 200 years ago . In: Dresdner Latest News , March 14, 2013, p. 10.
  2. ↑ grave Weinlig on eliasfriedhof-dresden.de ( Memento of 15 September 2012 at the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Weinlig, Christian Ehregott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and Kreuzkantor
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1813
Place of death Dresden