Joachim Beccau
Joachim Beccau (born June 12, 1690 in Guttau , Schleswig-Holstein , † September 16, 1754 in Neumünster ) was a German poet and opera librettist .
Life
Beccau spent his youth in Burg on Fehmarn , where he enjoyed a private education before he enrolled as a theologian in Kiel in 1707 at the age of seventeen . From 1712 he worked as a private tutor in Gottorf , and his first poems date from this time. Between 1713 and 1718 we find him in Kiel and Hamburg, where he made libretti for the opera on the Gänsemarkt . His texts were popular and were set to music by, for example, Georg Friedrich Handel , Reinhard Keizer and Georg Philipp Telemann . In 1720 Beccau received the hoped-for appointment as rector of the parish school in Neumünster, where he spent the rest of his life.
The notary Christian Ulrich Beccau was one of his nephews .
Works (selection)
- Permissible shortening of idle hours consisting of all kinds of sacred poems. Hamburg 1719.
- Permissible shortening of idle hours consisting of all kinds of secular poetry. Hamburg 1719 ( digitized version )
- Theatrical poems and translations. Hamburg 1720.
Literature (selection)
- Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Joachim Beccau (1690–1754). In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints. Vol. 1. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7772-9013-0 , pp. 422-427.
- Wilhelm Jürgensen: Joachim Beccau, an important Holstein poet of the Baroque period. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1957.
- Jürgen Rathje: Beccau, Joachim . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 30-31 .
- Kurt Schreinert: Beccau, Joachim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 687 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Joachim Beccau in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Goslar Carstens: Beccau, Christian Ulrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, p. 67
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beccau, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet and opera librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1690 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guttau , Schleswig-Holstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1754 |
| Place of death | Neumunster |