Christoph Adam Negelein

Portrait of the poet Christoph Adam Negelein

Christoph Adam Negelein (pseudonym Celadon , born November 29, 1656 in Nuremberg , † April 22, 1701 in Vienna ) was a German businessman , composer , writer and lyricist .

Life

Negelein was the son of the Nuremberg merchant Adam Negelein and had completed a commercial apprenticeship after attending the Aegidiengymnasium and then made a long trip to France , Holland , England and Italy . When he returned to Nuremberg, he maintained contact with Dutch merchants who dedicated a poem to him for the wedding .

In 1679 he became a member of the Pegnese Flower Order under his shepherd name (a kind of pseudonym of the order) CelAdoN, in which his initials were hidden and which he took from the novel L'Astrée des Honoré d'Urfé . According to its name, his flower was the red Negelein .

Also in 1679 he married Christina Magdalena Matt (* 1656), the daughter of the Nuremberg businessman Johann Andreas Matt. His wife was named Chlorinda in the order , but died in 1681. Martin Limburger wrote the wedding poem for both of them:

The praised carnation mats
mated in the shade of roses
When the most defensive flower shepherd Celadon
with Chlorinda entered his dear virtue
crown in the marriage band order
, this was sung to him by Myrtillus
in the Pegnitz shepherd crowd
in the Christ-counted year M DC LXXIX

However, his passion for the theater found little recognition in Nuremberg. In 1667 he published the opera Arminius , followed in 1687 by his Singspiel Der Grosglaubige Abraham, and the miraculous obedience Isaac , which was preserved. In 1698 Johann Paul Wurfbain awarded him a poet's laurel .

In 1682 he married Anna Helena Engelschall, who also came from a Nuremberg patrician family. With both wives he had daughters as offspring.

Around 1700 Negelein went to Vienna because of an unfortunate act (his trading business had gone bankrupt), where he converted to the Catholic faith. There he was appointed imperial court poet. His task was now to write pieces for the local court theater and to translate texts for oratorios and singspiels by his colleague Donatus Cupeda (1661–1704) from Italian into German.

His stud book is kept in the Anna Amalia library .

Works (selection)

• Arminus Opera, 1667.
• The great believer Abraham, and the miraculous Isaac. Singspiel, 1687.
• The old Zion harp, The most blessed king, prophet and poet David's honor - after which one hundred and fifty psalms, in just as many songs, next to a preface Hn. M. Johann Conrad Feuerleins, Diaconi of the parish church of S. Sebald in Nuremberg, To the honor of heaven, and to all those who honor God for spiritual amusement, newly tuned by the Pegnesian Blum comrade Celadon, crowned Kayserlichen poet. Anjetzo printed for the second time, and, the music lovers to love, increased with completely new singing ways, by Johann Löhnern, The Church of S. Lorenzen in Nuremberg organists. Nuremberg, 1694.
• Johann Jakob von Sandrart: Completely new biblical idolatry. With verses by Christoph Adam Negelein, Johann Andreas Endter Söhne, Nuremberg, around 1698.
• Poem of praise for the marriage of the (later) Emperor Joseph I to Wilhelmine Amalie von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , 1699.
• Pindarian lucky wish ode for Emperor Leopold I , 1699.
• Poem for the birthday of Empress Eleonara Magdalena Theresia , 1700.

literature

• Markus Paul: Imperial City and Drama: Theatrical Art in Nuremberg in the 17th Century. Niemeyer, Tübingen, 2002, p. 104ff, p. 399ff, p. 533ff.
• Renate Jürgensen: Melos conspirant singuli in unum: Repertorium bio-bibliographicum on the history of the Pegnesian flower order in Nuremberg (1644–1744). Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden, 2006, p. 466ff.
• Georg Andreas Will, Nuremberg scholarly lexicon , p.11

Web links

• Christoph Adam Negelein in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Herrmann Staufer: Sigmund von Birken (1626-1681): Morphology of his work , Niemeyer, Tübingen, 2007, p. 1028f.
2. ^ Negelein's family book in the Anna Amalia library