Jacob Schuback

Portrait of Jacob Schuback, unknown artist, charcoal drawing, Hamburg State and University Library

Commentarius de jure littoris From the beach right (1751)

Jacob Schuback (born February 8, 1726 in Hamburg ; † May 15, 1784 ibid) was a German lawyer , diplomat and composer.

family

His father Nicolaus Schuback was Hamburg's mayor. The Schuback family was a wealthy and respected family in excellent positions in Hamburg. His daughter Johanna Elizabeth Schuback married Reinhard Woltman in 1797 .

Life

He attended the Johanneum while Georg Philipp Telemann was cantor there. After completing his law degree at the University of Göttingen in 1750, he became an adjunct archivist two years later. He was released from his ten-year obligation through great merits and appointed to the Senate Syndicate in 1760 .

In this position he also gained reputation outside of Hamburg and was one of the Hamburg negotiators for the Gottorf Treaty , which secured Hamburg's independence and made it possible to expand to the southern side of the Elbe and thus the port in its current form. In 1771 he became Hamburg envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg .

He was also President of the Hamburg Stack Deputation .

In addition, Schuback was known for his love of music. He translated and wrote his own major works. He was also friends with Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , with whom he also worked.

Works and writings

Schuback's musical work consists primarily of vocal compositions.

Stage works

• The magnanimity of Scipio, drama; Libretto: Daniel Schiebeler

Oratorios

• Jesus dying for the sin of the world , Passion Oratorio; Libretto: Barthold Heinrich Brockes ; Hamburg, around 1750
• Contemplations of the sufferings of our Savior ; Libretto: Schuback after Pietro Metastasio ; Hamburg, 1763
• The salvation of Bethulia ; Libretto: Schuback after Metastasio; Hamburg, 1763
• Joash ; Libretto: Schuback after Metastasio; Hamburg, 1777, lost
• The disciples of Emaus; Libretto: Schuback; Hamburg, 1778–1779

Other vocal works

• Four-part set church choirs, biblical sayings, spiritual and moral songs for the Rumbaum school for the poor ; Hamburg, 1779–1781
• Attempt in melodies, songs from Gerstenberg , Weisse , Gleim , Hölty , Bürger u. a .; Hamburg, 1779
• Sacred cantatas for solos, choir and orchestra:
  • Up, holy cheers, Easter cantata
  • I want the name
  • Praise the Lord, all heavens
  • The beauty of the divine man
  • Psalm cantatas based on Psalms 14, 33, 42 (Italian based on Mattei), 67 and 90.
  • O main, chorale cantata
  • After an exam, choral cantata
  • Wake up, choral cantata
• Secular Italian cantatas based on texts by Metastasio:
  • La tempesta
  • Nice e Tirsi
• Duet for the inauguration, 1751
• Inauguration cantata; 1771 in collaboration with Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• Dearest, song for tenor and bass with oboe
• Duets
• Two arias
• Two canons

Instrumental works

• Three symphonies in E major, B flat major and D major

Fonts

• From the musical declamation; Göttingen 1775 (published anonymously)
• Message from the Singe Institute at the Rumbaum School of the Poor; Hamburg 1780

Commons : Prints from Schuback Commentarius de jure littoris  - Commentarius de jure littoris Vom Strand -rechte (1751)

literature

• Otto Beneke :  Schuback, Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 585 f.

Web links

Commons : Jacob Schuback  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jacob Schuback (Composer) - Short Biography. In: bach-cantatas.com. Retrieved July 23, 2015 . 
2. ^ E. Eugene Helm:  Schuback, Jacob. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
3. ^ Kurt Stephenson: Schuback, Jacob. In: Music in the past and present. Bärenreiter-Verlag 1986 ( Digital Library Volume 60), p. 67655 (cf. MGG Vol. 12, p. 94 ff).