Gabriel Possible
Gabriel Möhlich also Mölich (born around 1595; died 1657 ) was a musician, composer and ballet master of the 17th century.
Life
His father Michael Mölich was a Dresden band musician. Möhlich finished his music studies with Heinrich Schütz in 1619 and was named as an instrumentist at the Saxon court orchestra that year. In 1620, at the instigation of the Elector of Saxony, Johann Georg I, he was sent to Paris to study French ballet and received 800 guilders for maintenance (to Fürstenau). He became electoral dance master in Dresden and in 1638 choreographed the singing ballet Orpheus and Euridice , a work consisting of ten individual ballets based on a German-language text by August Buchner on the music of the Electoral Saxon court conductor Heinrich Schütz, now lost . His high esteem at the court is also evident from multiple monetary gifts that could amount to up to 1,000 guilders.
Works
- 1619: a collection of 4- to 5-part spiritual madrigals (the only surviving compositions)
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- Moritz Fürstenau: On the history of music and theater at the court of Dresden Leipzig 1979, reprint of the two-volume original edition Dresden 1861–62.
Web links
- Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars of the Christian era up to the middle of the 19th century , ed. by Robert Eitner, Leipzig 1902 (PDF; 7.6 MB)
- Heinrich Schütz House
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Possible, Gabriel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Possible, Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1595 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1657 |