Elias Herlitz
Elias Herlitz (* around 1566 in Zeitz ; † February 6, 1615 in Stralsund ) was a German organist , composer and writer.
Life
Elias Herlitz was the son of Zeitz councilor and treasurer Andreas Herlitz. After attending school in Zeitz, he began studying at the University of Leipzig in 1582 , and in 1586 he moved to the University of Greifswald . In 1591 he was referred to as Collega in Tribsees . In the same year he got a job as organist at the Nikolaikirche in Stralsund , where he worked until the end of his life.
His brothers were the Greifswald mathematician David Herlitz and the Stralsund cantor Andreas Herlitz (1565–1623).
Works
Elias Herlitz wrote the school comedy "Musicomastix", which was printed in Stettin in 1606 by Joachim Rhete, the son of Georg Rhete . This was found in 1930 by the musicology seminar in Greifswald and successfully performed again in 1931 at the Greifswald City Theater.
- Hans Engel (Hrsg.): Musicomastix: a Comoedia by the Music Feinde / by Elias Herlitz from Zeitz, former organist in Stralsund . Facsimile of the edition by Joachim Rheten, Alten Stettin 1606; Bärenreiter, Kassel 1937
literature
- Herlitz, Elias . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 190.
Web links
- Literature about Elias Herlitz in the state bibliography MV
- Works by Elias Herlitz in the Greifswald University Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herlitz, Elias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organist, composer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1566 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Time |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1615 |
| Place of death | Stralsund |