Heinrich Sivers

Heinrich Sivers , also Hinrich Sivers , (born June 23, 1674 in Lübeck , † November 6, 1736 ) was cantor in Lübeck.

Life

Heinrich Sivers was a son of the tailor of the same name and his wife Elsabe, b. Rotterdam. After the early death of his mother, his father married Gertrud, geb. Witten, the widow of the businessman Peter Paarmann.

He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck , which he concluded in October 1696 with a public speech in Latin about Charles I (England) , and studied Protestant theology at the University of Jena and from Easter 1698 at the University of Rostock . After completing his studies, he worked, as was customary at the time, as a private tutor, first in Neustadt in Holstein , then in Sarau .

In 1703 he returned to Lübeck and was examined as a candidate for the ministry of the clergy , also in Hamburg the following year , where he took private lessons with Esdras Edzardus and was court master with a son of a Herr von Rantzau .

After a short further position as private tutor in Anton Winckler's house with his grandson, he was appointed to his successor as cantor in 1706 after the death of Johann Jacob Pagendarm . The cantorat at the Katharineum in Lübeck was paid 300 marks Lübsch and free accommodation and was in third place in the school ranking after the rector and sub-rector . He was responsible for Latin lessons in tertia and secondary as well as music lessons and music practice throughout the school.

Linked to this was the position as cantor at St. Mary's Church . Due to the classic division of tasks between cantor and organist , the cantor was in the shadow of the organist as a musician - first Dieterich Buxtehude until his death in 1707, then Johann Christian Schieferdecker , who at St. Marien was the much better honored position of organist and master craftsman held. Sivers task was limited to the choir direction in the church and the guidance of the congregation singing. Four times a year he gave quarterly music with the choir in the other main churches.

He married Regina Catharina, geb. Pagendarm (* 1688; buried on April 20, 1762 in Lübeck), the daughter of his predecessor and sister of Hermann Heinrich Pagendarm and Johann Gerhard Pagendarm . The couple had five children, including Henrich Jacob Sivers .

His successor was Caspar Ruetz .

literature

• Johann Henrich von Seelen : Athenae Lubecenses. Volume 4, Lübeck 1722 ( digitized version), p. 533ff
• Johann Henrich von Seelen : memory of honor, the former Wol-Edlen, ... Mr. Henrich Sivers, ... Cantori in Lübeck, on the day of his funeral on November 14th. 1736. / erected. Lübeck: Willers 1736

Digitized version , Göttingen University Library

• Alfred Hegge: The Lübeck Cantorat at the Katharineum 1531-1801 . In: Festschrift for the 475th anniversary of the Katharineum in Lübeck. Lübeck 2006, pp. 31–39 (general information on the cantorat in Lübeck)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal