Christoph Raupach

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Christoph Raupach (born on 5. July 1686 in Tonder , died on 19th April 1758 in Stralsund was) one of the Duchy of Schleswig -derived organist and composer in Stralsund.

Life

Christoph Raupach was the youngest of the four sons of the organist Georg Raupach . He worked in Zittau and was acquainted with Andreas Hammerschmidt . After attending school, he went to Hamburg in 1701 , where he was trained to play the organ with the organist Georg Bronner and learned Italian and French . In 1703 he applied to succeed Dieterich Buxtehude at the Marienkirche in Lübeck ; However, because of the condition attached to marry Buxtehude's older daughter Anna Margareta Buxtehude, he refrained from doing this.

After his brother Bernhard Raupach , a theology student in Rostock , had drawn his attention to the vacant position as organist at Stralsund's Nikolaikirche , he went to Stralsund , accompanied by Johann Gerhard Babst , organist at Rostock's Jakobikirche , and with a recommendation from Johann Fischer . On May 1st, 1703 he was appointed organist at the Nikolaikirche. Then he went via Rostock to Tondern. In Rostock he asked for the hand of Catharine Elisabeth Babst, Babst's eldest daughter. He married her on July 28, 1707 in Rostock.

Christoph Raupach was able to quickly gain recognition in Stralsund. He wrote numerous pieces of music. For Stanislaus I , who came through Stralsund on his way into exile after his first reign, he wrote a cantata that was performed before the Polish king. He was in contact with the composers Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel .

In 1710, Raupach organized so-called Allusiones at the end of the Sunday afternoon service in the Nikolaikirche . In these organ music, which received some attention, he tried to bring his chorale improvisations closer to the audience by means of given sheets of text and notes .

Christoph Raupach had 14 children with his wife, who died in 1733. The family was in dire straits because of poor or unpaid payments for his services. Raupach wrote numerous requests with the request to pay his salary on time.

Raupach died on April 19, 1758 and was buried in the Nikolaikirche. His eldest son Gerhard Christoph Raupach (1708–1759) became organist in Stralsund's Marienkirche , and Hermann Friedrich Raupach (1728–1778) was court conductor in St. Petersburg .

Christoph Raupach's works include sacred and secular cantatas, oratorios , piano and chamber music , but also works on music theory. Some of his writings were edited by Johann Mattheson . Most of the compositions remained unprinted and are now largely lost.

Fonts

  • as Veritophili [pseudonym]: Clear evidence-grounds on which the right use of music, both in the churches, as outside of them, is based. Edited by Johann Mattheson. Benjamin Schiller's heirs, Hamburg 1717. Digitized

literature

  • Beate Bugenhagen: The Stralsund organist office. In: dies: The music history of Stralsund in the 16th and 17th centuries. Böhlau, Köln / Weimar 2015, p. 208. Google preview
  • Andreas Neumerkel : Organist at St. Nikolai at 17. In the Ostsee-Zeitung , Stralsund edition, on December 4, 2017. Online
  • Christoph Raupach. In: Edmund Schebek: Two letters about Johann Jakob Froberger, Imperial Chamber Organist in Vienna. Vienna 1874, p. 11f. Digitized (for training by his father)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Mattheson : Basis of an honor gate. Hamburg 1740; New print Berlin 1910, pp. 282-290. As well as: Arthur Reichow: An old Stralsund family of musicians. In: Unser Pommerland , 19, 1934, pp. 233–236. Quoted from: Joachim Kremer: The cantorate of the Baltic Sea region in the 18th century. Frank & Timme, 2007, p. 147, note 40.
  2. ^ Johann Mattheson: Basis of an honor gate. Hamburg 1740; Reprint Berlin 1910, p. 287.
  3. ↑ Beate Bugenhagen: The Stralsund organist office. In: dies: The music history of Stralsund in the 16th and 17th centuries. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar 2015, p. 208.
  4. ↑ Quoted, among other things, from: Jacob Adlung : Instructions for musical knowledge given from the theory and practice of old and new music, from musical instruments, especially the organ. Breitkopf, 1782, p. 827ff. Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Raupach, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1686
PLACE OF BIRTH Tondern
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1758
Place of death Stralsund