Georg Bronner

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Georg (Jürgen) Bronner (baptized February 17, 1667 in Hamburg ; buried March 8, 1720 there ) was a German composer and cantor .

Life

Georg Bronner, son of Christoffer Bronner (also Brunner), from Groden ( Cuxhaven ) and Margareta Brodhagen from Hamburg worked as sexton from Easter 1688 and from Easter 1689 to Christmas 1719 at the same time as organist at the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital in Hamburg. In 1699 he took over together with a Dr. M. Cordes took over the directorship of the opera on Gänsemarkt founded by Gerhard Schott in 1678 , but gave it up again in the same year. Bronner's activity as a composer for the Gänsemarktoper spanned the period from 1693 to 1702. This is probably where his main importance lay, even though he also wrote cantatas.

However, only one chorale book from 1715 of Bronner's works has survived. Of the 7 operas, some of which Bronner composed together with Johann Mattheson and Johann Christian Schieferdecker , only the titles are known.

Mattheson emphasized the compositional value of Bronner:

That not everyone would do it as well as the former Hamburg organist Bronner; for this deceased good man, according to his style, although not perfect, not infrequently had such ideas that could be heard and were by no means to be rejected, like the operas famous and popular at the time: Narcissus and Procris, among others have shown enough.

One of Bronner's pupils was the Stralsund organist Christoph Raupach .

Works (selection)

  • Echo and Narcissus (Libretto Friedrich Christian Bressand ), Opera (1693 Hamburg; 1693 also in Braunschweig )
  • Venus or Die Siegende Liebe ( Heinrich Hinsch or Jakob Kremberg ), Opera (1694 Hamburg)
  • Procris and Cephalus (Bressand), Opera (1701 Hamburg)
  • Beatrix (Hinsch), Opera (1702 Hamburg); Composed in 1701 under the title Philip Duke of Milan, probably with the participation of Mattheson
  • Berenice (Hinsch after Apostolo Zeno ), Opera (1702 Hamburg); together with Mattheson
  • Death of the great Pan (Hinsch), Opera (1702 Hamburg); on the death of Gerhard Schott, composed by Bronner and Mattheson
  • Victor Duke of the Normans (Hinsch), Opera (1702 Hamburg); One act each by Bronner, Schieferdecker and Mattheson
  • Pilgrimage of the God-Loving Souls, (Oratory 1710, Senate Archives, Hamburg)
  • VI sacred concerts (Hamburg, 1696)
  • 6 German cantatas ... in Italian style (Leipzig, 1699)
  • The ... perfect musical and choral book (Hamburg, 1715)
  • Now my soul praise the Lord (cantata)
  • God wants us to be gracious (Cantata 1714)

literature

  • J. Mattheson: The Musical Patriot . Hamburg 1728, p. 144
  • J. Mattheson: Basis of an honor gate . Hamburg 1740, pp. 220, 283 (reprint by M. Schneider, 1910)
  • EO Lindner: The first standing German opera . Berlin 1885, pp. 176, 182
  • H. Kretzschmar: History of the Opera . Leipzig 1919, p. 139
  • L. Krüger: The Hamburg music organization in the 17th century . Strasbourg 1933
  • GF Schmidt: The early German opera and the music-dramatic art of GC Schürmann . Regensburg 1934, I, p. 50, II, p. 31, 35, 46, 51
  • EL Gerber: New historical-biographical lexicon of the Tonkünstler . Leipzig 1812, column 519 f.
  • JRM Wend: Materials on the history of the early Hamburg opera . Norderstedt 2002, p. 25
  • Dorothea Schröder : Bronner, Georg (Jürgen). In: Franklin Kopitzsch , Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . Lexicon of persons. Volume 2. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 69-70 ( Google Books ).
  • Kurt Gudewill :  Bronner, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 635 f. ( Digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Bronner, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bronner, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and cantor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 18th century
Place of death Hamburg