David Pohle

David Pohle (* 1624 in Marienberg ; † December 20, 1695 in Merseburg ; last name also written Pohl, Pohlen, Pole, Pol or Bohle) was a German composer of the Baroque era.

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David Pohle came from a family of town pipers . Pohle completed his training with Heinrich Schütz in Dresden. With his brother Samuel Pohle he came in 1648 as an instrumentalist in the chapel of Duke Christian I of Saxony-Merseburg . From 1650 to 1652 it is documented in Kassel. From 1653 he is at the Gottorfer Hof in Schleswig. In a baptism entry from 1660 he is named as the “Princely Magdeburg Concertmaster”. From 1661 at the latest he was already active as “Princely Capellmeister” at the court of Duke August von Sachsen-Weißenfels , where he was replaced in 1680 by Johann Philipp Krieger . From 1674 to 1677 he also worked at the secondary production farms in Weißenfels and Zeitz . From 1678 to 1682 he was Kapellmeister in Zeitz. From 1682 until his death in 1695 he was Kapellmeister in Merseburg .

The earliest surviving compositions from his pen are verse songs to Paul Fleming's odes , which he dedicated to the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel in 1650. The influence of Heinrich Schütz is noticeable in his sacred vocal works. Between 1663 and 1664 he wrote cantatas for the entire church year. Here a biblical verse alternates with a strophic aria, the texts of which come from odes by David Elias Heidenreich . Only one of his works has survived from this cycle: “Behold, the lion has overcome”. As a link between Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach, Pohles vocal works provide an insight into the development of the Protestant church cantata .

In instrumental music, with a preference for the middle and lower voices, he experimented primarily with form. Despite the modest scope of work, a style of its own is recognizable.

Not a single one of his works was published during his lifetime. Many of his compositions are lost. Individual instrumental works with the author assignment to David Pohle can be found in the Dübensammlung , the Ludwig score book and the Codex Rost collection .

Works

All of Pohle's works have only survived in handwriting and much has been lost. Some works were only published in the last few years.

A. Vocal works (on the lost vocal works, see W. Serauky, p. 283f.)

1. Spiritual, Latin

• Amo te Deus , 3 singers, 3 instr., Bc (D-Dl, S-Uu)
• Benedicam Dominum , 2 singers, 3 instr., Bc (S-Uu)
• Benedicam Dominum (different version), 2 singers, 3 instr., Bc (S-Uu)
• Bonum est confiteri , 3 Singst., Bc (S-Uu), Verlag C. Hofius Ammerbuch, 2007
• Diligam te Domine , soprano solo, 2 instr. u. Bc (D-Kl)
• Domine, ostende mihi , 5 singers, 6 instr., Bc (S-Uu), Hänssler / Carus Neuhausen 1976
• Domine, quis habitat , 4 singers, 5 instr., Bc (S-Uu)
• In te Domine speravi , 3 singers, 3 instr., Bc (S-Uu)
• Jesu chare , alto solo, 2 instr., Bc (S-Uu), Prima la musica! 2008
• Jesus auctor clementiae / Jesus origin of eternal goodness , 3 singers, 3 instr., Bc (S-Uu)
• Miserere mei Deus , 5 singers, 5 instr. ad lib., Bc., D-Kl, Prima la musica! 2008
• Nascitur Immanuel , 5 singers, 5 instr., Bc, D-Dl, Prima la musica! 2006
• Oculi mei , 3 singers, 2 instr., Bc., S-Uu
• Paratum cor meum , tenor solo, 2 instr., Bc, S-Uu
• Te sanctum Dominum , 5 singers, 7 instr., Bc, S-Uu
• Tulerunt Dominum , 6 singers, 6 instr., Bc, S-Uu, Prima la musica! 2006
• Vox Domini , bass solo, 2 instr., Bc, S-Uu, Verlag C. Hofius Ammerbuch, January 2008

2. Spiritual, German

• The Angel of the Lord , f. 4 singers, 4 instr., Bc (DB, S-Uu)
• A star will rise from Jacob , f. 4 singers, 3 instr., Bc (DB), Prima la musica! 2008
• Lord, if I only have you , alto solo, 5 instr., Bc (DB, S-Uu), prima la musica! 2005
• Lord, if I only have you (different version), 3 singers, 3 instr., Bc (S-Uu), Carus Stuttgart,
• You peoples bring , 3 singers, 3 instr., Bc (DB), Prima la musica! 2008
• Jesus, my joy , 4 singers, 3 instr., Bc (DB, D-KIl)
• Only in my Jesus' wounds , 6 Singst., 6 Instr., Bc (S-Uu)
• See, the lion has overcome it , 5 Singst., 7 (8 ad lib.) Instr., Bc (DB) (Text by DE Heidenreich: Geistliche Oden , Halle 1665)
• Wie der Hirsch screiet , tenor solo, 3 instr., Bc (DB, S-Uu), Hänssler / Carus Neuhausen 1982 / Sikorski-Verlag Hamburg, Prima la musica! 2008

3. Secular, German

• 12 arias based on texts from Paul Fleming's 5th Odenbuch, 2 Singst., 2 Instr., Bc. (D-Kl)
• Not a moment goes by , 3 singers, Bc., (Voices in S-Uu)
• Marindgen, you look lovely and beautiful , 2 singers, 5 instr., Bc., S-Uu (voices.)
• White and black , f. 2 singers, 2 instr., Bc (S-Uu)

B. Singspiele (all lost; the librettos are mostly by David Elias Heidenreich)

• Love crowns unity (1669)
• The singing court man Daniel (1671)
• The blissful love-miss Prince Walrams from Saxony (1673)
• The amorous murderer Herod (1673)
• Aspasia (1672)
• The inconsistent couple Venus and Vulcanus (1679)

C. Instrumental works

• 20 sonatas for 5 to 8 instruments (D-Kl; contains all sonatas, but without violin 1 part book);

complete copies of: 4th sonata à 5 (S-Uu; 2 ex.); 11th sonata à 6 (D-Kl); 17th Sonata à 6 (S-Uu)

• Sonata à 3 (DW)
• Sonata à 4 (D-Kl)
• 2 sonata à 4 (DW)
• Sonata à 5 (S-Uu)
• 3 sonata à 6 (D-Kl), Sikorski-Verlag Hamburg / Kammermusikverlag Kassel
• Sonata à 8 (D-Kl), Sikorski-Verlag Hamburg / Kammermusikverlag Kassel
• 2 suites of 4 (D-Kl)
• Le Testament du Sr. Belleville et Courante et Sarabande (D-Kl)
• Ballet, PL-GD (according to tablature)
• Sonata a 2 Violini dies. D. Pohle (mentioned in F-Pn, Codex Rost , No. 24)

literature

• Christiane Engelbrecht: The Kassel court chapel in the 17th century. Kassel 1958.
• ME Frandesen: Albrici, Peranda and the origins of the Concerto-Aria-Cantata in Dresden. In: Schütz yearbook . 18, 1996, pp. 123-139.
• Gottfried Gille: The Schütz pupil David Pohle (1624–1695): its significance for the German music history of the 17th century. Phil.Diss. Univ. Halle, 1973.
• Gottfried Gille: The sacred vocal music of David Pohles (1624–1695). In: Music and Church. 14, 1975, pp. 64-74.
• Gottfried Gille: The cantatas text print by David Elias Heidenreich, Halle 1665, in the settings of David Pohles, Sebastian Knüpfers, Johann Schelles and others. In: The music research. 38, 1985, pp. 81-94.
• Dagmar Glüxam: The violin cord and its role in the history of violin playing. Tutzing 1999, p. 131ff.
• Matthias Kirsch: Investigations on the Central German ensemble sonata after 1650. Repertoire and context of the sonata collection 2 ^o Ms.Mus. 38 by David Pohle (1624–1695) in the Murhard Library in Kassel. Written term paper to obtain the degree of a Magister Artium (MA) of the Philosophical Faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Kiel 2003.
• Friedhelm Krummacher: The tradition of the chorale arrangements in the early Protestant cantata. Investigations into the manuscript repertoire of Protestant figural music in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. (= Berlin studies in musicology. 10). Berlin 1965
• M. Märker: David Pohles Christmas cantata 'Nascitur Immanuel' and the early history of the Concerto Aria cantata. In: Schütz Yearbook. 17, 1995, pp. 81-96.
• Konstanze Musketa : David Pohle and the Opera in Central Germany. In: Georg Friedrich Handel: A content in life. Halle 1995, pp. 359-368.
• Juliane Peetz: David Pohle's sacred vocal works in the Düben Collection in Uppsala. Edition and source studies. Dipl.Arbeit, mschr., Univ. Würzburg, 2004.
• Walter Serauky: Music history of the city of Halle. II / l, Halle / Berlin 1939.

Web links

• Research project on David Pohle
• Collection Düben Online
• Sheet music and audio files by David Pohle in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.verlag-hofius.de/pohle.php