Hans Kugelmann
Johann "Hans" Kugelmann (* around 1495 probably in Augsburg ; † July / August 1542 in Königsberg ) was a German composer and court trumpeter in Königsberg.
Life
Hans Kugelmann was one of five brothers, four of whom served in the chapel of Duke Albrecht in Königsberg. While the date of birth is considered to be unknown, his work from 1518 to the position in which court orchestra Emperor Maximilian I. detectable. He probably stayed there until 1523, when he joined the Fugger family in Augsburg. From 1524 he was a trumpeter and court composer for Margrave Albrecht in Königsberg. The demonstrably rising salary suggests the esteem of the duke, who also gave him a small house in 1541. Parallel to his activities at court he was Kapellmeister of the choir from 1534 until his death. After two years of illness, he died in 1542.
In 1540 Kugelmann published the chorale work Concentus novi trium vocum, Ecclesiarum usui in Prussia precipue accomodati in Augsburg . In it Johann Gramann's adaptation of Psalm 103 is connected with an older melody, Well praise, my soul, the gentlemen . This is shifted to 6/4 time and expanded by an expressive increase in the second half. Text and melody were included in all German-language Protestant hymn books ( EG 289) and in translations also in numerous other languages. The melody was u. a. edited several times by Johann Sebastian Bach .
A mass and two motets have also been preserved.
literature
- Gero Soergel: Kugelmann, Hans . In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? , Göttingen 2001, p. 188 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Robert Eitner : Kugelmann, Hans . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 307.
- Hanns-Werner Heister: Kugelmann, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 244 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Kugelmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hans-Christian Müller, Clytus Gottwald: Kugelmann, Johann. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- Hans Kugelmann in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Sheet music and audio files by Johannes Kugelmann in the International Music Score Library Project
- Sheet music in the public domain by Johann Kugelmann in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kugelmann (family). In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 7 (Jensen - Kyrie). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1958, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 1870–1871 (= digital library volume 60, p. 44179)
- ↑ Available in the special series of Das Erbe deutscher Musik , Vol. 2.
- ↑ Frauke Schmitz-Gropengiesser: Weiß mir ein Blümleinblaue (2013). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
- ↑ ed. by Fritz Jöde , in choir book 5 (Wb 1931); Herder: The Great Lexicon of Music, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1976, Vol. 5, p. 23
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kugelmann, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kugelmann, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and court trumpeter in Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1495 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: Augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1542 or August 1542 |
| Place of death | Koenigsberg |