Georg Christoph Strattner
Georg Christoph Strattner (* 1644 or 1645 in Gols in the then Hungarian Burgenland ; † April (buried on April 11th) 1704 in Weimar ) was a German church musician and composer.
life and work
He received his first music lessons from his cousin Samuel Capricornus , music director at the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Pressburg . At the age of 14, he joined the Stuttgart court orchestra as a chapel boy in 1659 . In 1666 he became Kapellmeister at the Baden-Durlachschen Hof, until in 1682, apparently at the intercession of Philipp Jacob Spener , he took over the position of Kapellmeister at the Barfüßerkirche , the main Protestant church in Frankfurt am Main . In 1692 he was released for adultery and expelled from the city. In numerous attempts in the years that followed, he did not succeed in getting his reinstatement. It was not until 1694 that he found a new job, initially as a tenor and, from October 1, 1695, as the successor to August Kühnel , as a particular chamber musician and vice-capellmeister to Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar . With that he also took over the representation of the often sick Kapellmeister Johann Samuel Drese (1644-1714).
He composed numerous cantatas, around 20 of which are handwritten, and hymns, which are often characterized by aria-like melodies. In 1691 he published a new edition of Joachim Neander's federal songs and thanksgiving psalms , in which he expanded the total number of Neander's songs from 56 to 64 and to which he contributed all the melodies. The melody of “Heaven, Earth, Air and Sea” ( EG 504) can be found in hymn books to this day .
Works
- (Editor): Joachimi Neandri Increased Faith and Love Exercise: Cheered up by simple covenant songs / And Danck psalms; Founded on the conclusion of peace fixed between God and the sinner in the blood of Jesus / To read and sing when traveling / At home / or at Christian supplements in the green / By a sacred Hertzens-Hallelujah. Franckfurt: Andreä, 1691
literature
- Elisabeth Mentzel: Strattner, Georg Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 520-524.
- Michael Maul : Strattner, Georg Christoph. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
- Hermann Schemmel: Strattner, Georg Christoph. In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Composers and songwriters of the Protestant hymn book. (= Handbook for the Evangelical Hymnal; Vol. 2). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-50318-0 , p. 316
- Birgit Weyel, Strattner, Georg Christoph , in: Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 446 .
Web links
- Roman Frost: Strattner, Georg Christoph in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon (article status: December 9, 2019, query date: January 3, 2020)
- Publications by and about Georg Christoph Strattner in VD 17 .
- Works by and about Georg Christoph Strattner in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ The melody originally composed in 12/8 time was changed isometrically in 1705 in Freylinghausen's hymn book ; in English-speaking countries it is known in this form under the name Posen (see hymnary.org ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strattner, Georg Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German church musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1644 or 1645 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gols in the then Hungarian Burgenland |
| DATE OF DEATH | buried April 11, 1704 |
| Place of death | Weimar |