Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns

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Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns , and Nicholas and the High German form of the surname Braun , (*  11. February 1637 in front of Lollfuß Schleswig ; † 13. March 1718 in Hamburg ) was a composer of the Baroque .

Friedrich Nicolaus came from a family of musicians in Schleswig-Holstein, from which his nephew Nicolaus Bruhns also emerged . In 1682 he succeeded Nicolaus Adam Strungk as director of the Hamburg Council Music; from 1687 he was Canonicus minor cantor at the cathedral .

A Mark Passion and a St. John Passion (1702 and 1706) by Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns, which were previously attributed to Reinhard Keizer , have survived . Furthermore, eleven solo cantatas with continuo and accompaniment of two violins from the years 1706 to 1712 and 1715 to 1718 have been preserved.

In 1726 Johann Sebastian Bach took over the Mark Passion (1702) for the performance in the Leipzig Thomaskirche on Good Friday and added chorals to adapt them for Leipzig practice.

literature

  • Daniel L. Melamed and Reginald S. Sanders: On the text and context of the "Keizer" Markus Passion , in: Bach Yearbook 1999, pp. 35–50.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolff: Johann Sebastian Bach. 2000, p. 295f.
personal data
SURNAME Bruhns, Friedrich Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruhns, Friedrich Nikolaus; Brauns, Friedrich Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1637
PLACE OF BIRTH Lollfuß before Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1718
Place of death Hamburg