Esaias Reusner the Younger

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Esaias Reusner the Younger

Esaias Reusner the Younger (born 29. April 1636 , Lowenberg , Principality Swidnica ( Silesia ); died May 1. . Jul / 11. May  1679 greg. In Berlin ) was a German composer and lutenist .

Live and act

Esaias Reusner the Younger was the son of Esaias Reusner the Elder and his wife Blandina, nee Reich. He was taught to play the lute by his father and showed himself to be a musical prodigy. The family was related to the poet and historian Elias Reusner and his brother, the legal scholar Nikolaus von Reusner , who also lived in Löwenberg. After Esaias' mother Blandina died in 1645, the family moved to Breslau , where, according to the Viennese music historian Josef Zuth (published from 1926–1928), Esaias was a page in the service of the Swedish Count Wittenberg, then with the Royal War Commissioner Müller which is not clearly proven. It is certain that in 1651 he became the valet of Princess Radziwill in Poland , who is said to have sent him for further training to an outstanding French lutenist, whose name is not known. Rerusner returned to Breslau in 1654, and the following year he came to the court of George III as a lutenist . from Liegnitz, Brieg and Wohlau. After Prince Georg died in 1664, Reusner went to the court of Duke Christian von Brieg , who died in 1672. From 1672 to 1673 he taught the lute at the University of Leipzig and on February 5, 1674 he was appointed chamber musician and lutenist of the Brandenburg "Great Elector" Friedrich Wilhelm in Berlin. He had married his wife Maria (née Böhm) in Breslau in 1660 and had three sons with her. Reusner is on May 1st July. / May 11,  1679 greg. Died in Berlin at the age of 43 years and 11 days.

meaning

Esaias Reusner the Younger was the first German lute composer of major importance. With his two collections of suites Delitiae testudinis and Neue Lauten- Frucht , which are also important evidence of the development of the instrumental suite , he introduced the ornamental lute style in Germany, also adopting the D minor tuning of the so-called newer French school . The composer and lutenist Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1696–1760) characterized these works in his publication from 1727 as follows: The two Reusner, Vatter and Son, […] are without a doubt the first to be diligently relaxed and with the genius Instruments to compose agreed melodies yourself; because in the old days you had to make do with separate pieces (page 72). Reusner's influence extended to all of Germany in the 17th century, and his musical style represents a preliminary stage to the works of later lutenists such as Silvius Leopold Weiss .

Reusner's 28 lute suites are each in a major or minor key and are made up of four to nine movements; they show the basic pattern of the later dance suite Allemande - Courante - Sarabande - Gigue . Most of the longer Suites start with a different dance form as Paduana or Ballo , or a typical French Improvisations - Prelude , and many end up with another dance as the Gigue.

Works

  • Delitiae testudinis or Delightful Lute Pleasure , without location information 1667, reprint Breslau 1668; Reprinted Leipzig 1697
  • Musical taffel amusement […] set on the lute […], brought in 4 parts, so that the same can be used on violas in the French style (arrangement for violas and basso continuo by Johann Georg Stanley), Brieg 1668
  • Musical society replacement , orchestral suite for violin, 2 violas and basso continuo, Brieg 1670
  • New lute fruits , Berlin 1676
  • Hundred Spiritual Melodies of Evangelical Songs , Berlin 1678
  • Musical bouquet of flowers , Bremen 1673, is considered lost

Literature (selection)

  • Ernst Gottlieb Baron: Historical-Theoretical and Practical Investigations of the Instrument of the Lute , Nuremberg 1727
  • G. Sparmann: Esaias Reusner and the lute suite , dissertation at the University of Berlin 1926 (typewritten)
  • Josef Zuth: Handbook of the lute and guitar , Vienna 1926–1928, page 230–231
  • K. Koletschka: Esaias Reusner the Younger and its importance for the German lute music of the XVII. Century. In: Studien zur Musikwissenschaft (supplements to the monuments of music art in Austria) No. 15, 1928, pages 7–45
  • H. Neemann: Foreword and critical report on lute music of the 17th and 18th centuries: Works by Esaias Reusner and SL Weiss , Braunschweig 1939 (= The Heritage of German Music No. 12)
  • Historical Commission for Silesia (Ed.): History of Silesia , Volume 2: Die Habsburgerzeit 1526-1740, Sigmaringen 1988, ISBN 3-7995-6342-3 , page 204 and following
  • DA Smith: A History of the Lute from Antiquity to the Renaissance , Lexington / Virginia 2002
  • Grzegorz Joachimiak: An unknown source concerning Esaias Reusner Junior from the Music Collection Department of Wrocław (Breslau) University Library . "Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology" No. 11, 2012, ISSN 1734-2406, pages 83-102.
  • Markus Lutz: Esaias Reusner's funeral sermon (1636–1679). In: Lauten-Info, 4 (2006), pp. 19–24
  • Markus Lutz, The famous relationship of Esaias Reusner. In: Die Laute XI (2013), pp. 89–91

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Päffgen:  Reusner, Esaias d. J .. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 13 (Paladilhe - Ribera). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1133-0 , Sp. 1584–1585 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. ↑ Marc Honegger, Günther Massenkeil (ed.): The great lexicon of music. Volume 7: Randhartinger - Stewart. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1982, ISBN 3-451-18057-X .
  3. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , edited by Stanley Sadie, 2nd Edition, Volume 21, McMillan Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3
  4. ↑ Claude Chauvel: Supplement to the recording European Lute Music 2 - Esaias Reusner (1636-1679) , CD published on October 14, 2002, DHM # 05472778502
  5. ↑ Michael Treder: Esaias Reusner the Elder - Esaias Reusner the Younger ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tabulatura.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PDF file, page 5, accessed December 25, 2015
  6. ↑ Grzegorz Joachimiak: Lutniści i uczeni. Rodzina Reusnerów ze Śląska w świetle starodruku z Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej we Wrocławiu. (The lutenists and scholars. The Reusner family from Silesia in the light of the old print from the Wroclaw University Library) . "Muzyka" LVIII (2013) No. 2, pages 73-80, PL ISSN 0027-5344
personal data
SURNAME Reusner, Esaias the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reusner, Esaias; Reussner, Esaias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and lutenist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1636
PLACE OF BIRTH Löwenberg , Principality of Schweidnitz
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1679
Place of death Berlin