Hermann Ebel (organist)

Hermann Ebel († 1616 in Lübeck ; also written: Aebel ) was a German organist .

Life

Hermann Ebel came from a family of church musicians. His father David Ebel (Aebel) was organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck until 1572 and at the same time council musician . For 1557 and 1564 stays with the humanistic Duke Ulrich von Mecklenburg at the court at Güstrow Castle are attested. His brother David Ebel (the younger) had been a citizen of Lübeck since 1588 and was elected organist of the Aegidienkirche on Midsummer 1593 .

Hermann Ebel was appointed to the Petrikirche in Lübeck in 1590 from Stralsund , where he worked as an organist at the Marienkirche there from 1579 to 1589 . In 1594 he was also given the position of foreman that had been promised to him when he was appointed. In addition, he was a council musician and playgreve . He supervised the minstrels in the city and was responsible for compliance with the council ordinances, which regulated the music allowed at weddings and celebrations.

At Michaelmas 1611 he was appointed as the successor to Heinrich Marcus to the position of organist of the Marienkirche, which he held until his death in 1616. Both "belonged to the 53 organists who had to 'discuss and examine' the organ built by David Beck in 1592-96 and at that time a sensation in the castle church in Gröningen near Halberstadt ."

Ebel received an annual salary of 300 marks Lübsch (a third more than at his place at St. Petri) and a free apartment. In 1614 he was again attested as an expert witness for the acceptance of the new organ at the Georgenkirche in Wismar .

His successor was Peter Hasse .

See also

• Ebel (family name)

literature

• Ernst Praetorius: Messages from north German archives about cantors, organists, organ builders and city musicians of the old days up to around 1800. Anthologies of the International Music Society, 7th year, issue 2, 1906, pp. 204–252.
• Clemens Meyer : History of the Güstrower Hofkapelle. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . 1919, pp. 10-15.
• Wilhelm steel: music history of Lübeck. Volume 2: Sacred Music. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1952.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Evangelical parish of St. Marien Stralsund (ed.): The Stellwagen organ in the Marienkirche in Stralsund. Festschrift for the rededication of the restored organ. Stralsund, 2008.
2. ↑ Marienorganist 1597-1611
3. ↑ On behalf of Duke Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel about the same time as the Gröninger barrel
4. ↑ In 1770 Frederick the Great gave the prospectus of this organ to the Martinikirche in Halberstadt.
5. ^ Fritz Jung: The music in Lübeck. In: Fritz Endres (ed.): History of the free and Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Lübeck 1926, p. 171 ff. (175f.)

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich Marcus	Organist at St. Marien zu Lübeck 1612–1616	Peter Hasse