Cyriacus Wilche

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Cyriacus Wilche or Cyriakus Wilcke (* around 1620; † April 26, 1667 in Jena ) was a German baroque composer .

Cyriacus Wilche worked as a musician at the court of Weimar until 1662 and in Jena from 1662. The godfather of one of his children was Duke Bernhard von Sachsen-Jena . Wilche is best known today for his beaver- like battle music Battaglia for 2 violins, 3 violas and basso continuo (1659), a work that is in the Codex Rost .

Wilche was possibly the grandfather of Anna Magdalena Bach , Johann Sebastian Bach's second wife .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edition: Cyriacus Wilche, Battaglia , ed. by Konrad Ruhland (Magdeburg: Edition Walhall, 2008)
  2. MGG , 2nd edition, vol. 17, p. 912