Emanuel Kegel

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Emanuel Kegel (* 1655 in Gotha ; † June 23, 1724 in Breslau ) was a German composer .

Life

The son of a magistrate attended grammar school in Gotha, studied in Jena and was a pupil of Adam Dres and first cantor in Neustadt near Coburg , six months later cantor in Saalfeld . Later "after the death of the local city organist Justi Weinmann ... Kegel in view of his good qualities" became city ​​organist in Gera . In 1695 he took over the office of court organist in Gera under Count Heinrich Reuss XVIII. In 1700 he became court conductor at the Gera court. From 1703 to 1707 he was Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's teacher . He carried out the office of court conductor in Gera until December 31, 1717, since from January 1, 1718 Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel was appointed to the office until September 1719. Kegel now regained his previous rights through legal action and worked again in the same office from the end of 1719 until his death.

His son Ludwig Heinrich Kegel (* October 25, 1705; † after 1749) was in turn successor in office of Stölzel in Gotha after Stölzel's death in 1749. His daughter Johanna Ämilia (Emilia) Kegel married Adam Falckenhagen , the composer at the Weißenfels court.

Nothing of his compositions was printed during his lifetime.

plant

  • Herculis youth and virtue. , Tafelmusik, 1700 (Text: Johann Christoph Thalheim)
  • Nothing is sweeter than love. cantata

literature

  • Ernst Ludwig Gerber: New historical-biographical lexicon of the Tonkünstler: Th. KR Kühnel, Leipzig, 1813, p. 26.
  • Renate Brockpähler: Handbook on the history of baroque opera in Germany. Lechte, Emsdetten, 1964, p. 167f.
  • Martin Petzoldt: Bach places: a travel guide to Johann Sebastian Bach. Insel, Berlin, 2000, p. 82.
  • Dietlinde Rumpf: Church music maintenance in Saxony after the Reformation until 1837: Contributions to the music maintenance of the Protestant Latin school in Saalfeld after the Reformation until the establishment of the secondary school. Dr. Kovač, Hamburg, 2007, p. 71ff.

Recordings

  • Praise God you Christians all at once; Baroque bass cantatas. Klaus Mertens; Accademia Daniel; Ensemble Shalev Ad-El, cpo, 777-298-2, 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Musikalische Real-Zeitung: for the year 1789. Speyer, 1789, p. 178.
  2. ^ New magazine for music: the magazine for new tones; Volume 12. Friese, Leipzig, 1840, p. 97.
personal data
SURNAME Kegel, Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1655
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1724
Place of death Wroclaw