Esaias Hickmann

Esaias (also Esajas) Hickmann (born December 11, 1638 in Dippoldiswalde , † September 29, 1691 in Weida ) was a German lawyer and composer .

Life

Esaias Hickmann jun. was the son of the Dippoldiswalder deacon Esaias Hickmann sen. (1608–1672) and Maria von Pufendorf (1609–1677) from Flöha . He was enrolled at the University of Jena on July 22, 1657 . His compositional works have come down to us through the so-called collection of Samuel Jacobi . He later worked as an official advocate and legal counsel in Neustadt / Orla and Weida and was a student of Sebastian Knüpfer . In Weida he also took on "matters of the Collegium Musicum (founded in 1651) ". He had a lively correspondence with his relative Samuel von Pufendorf . His son, who was also called Esaias Hickmann, was born in Neustadt / Orla in 1670 and died in Naumburg in 1723 .

Works

• "O tempus amatum" (Christmas cantata)
• "How lovely are your apartments" (concert for 5 voices and instruments)

literature

• Samuel Pufendorf: Collected works, edited by Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Volume 1: Correspondence, edited by Detlef Döring . Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1996, p. 15.

Recordings

• Open the gates, Advent and Christmas in old Halle and Leipzig (motets and cantatas by Esaias Hickmann, Sebastian Knüpfer, Johann Kuhnau, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow), instrumental ensemble of the archive production Gottfried Wolters Int., 1990.
• Music at the court of those von Bünau I. Ludger Remy and ensemble "Alte Musik Dresden"; Raumklang (Harmonia Mundi) Goseck, 1995.
• Music at the court of those von Bünau II. Norbert Schuster and ensemble "Alte Musik Dresden"; Raumklang (Harmonia Mundi) Goseck, 2006.

Web links

• Literature by and about Esaias Hickmann in the catalog of the German National Library