Johann Andreas Herbst

Johann Andreas Herbst (baptized June 9, 1588 in Nuremberg ; † January 24, 1666 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German composer of the early Baroque period .

Johann Andreas Herbst.
Portrait by Sebastian Furck (1635).

Life

Herbst was a contemporary of Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz . It is possible that he received his training from Hans Leo Hassler , as he worked in Nuremberg during his youth in autumn and there is also a similarity between the styles. Herbst held the position of Kapellmeister at the Landgrave of Hesse in Butzbach in 1614 and at the court of Darmstadt in 1618, and from 1623 he was the city's music director in Frankfurt am Main. Back in his native Nuremberg, he held the office of Kapellmeister at the Frauenkirche from 1636 and 1644 , but then returned to Frankfurt am Main.

He introduced the Venetian polychoir to the Protestant part of Germany. Philipp Friedrich Buchner was one of his students .

In addition to the numerous, largely unprinted compositions, he left two musical treatises, Musica Practica and Musica Poetica , whose historical value had long been misunderstood.

output

• Florian Grampp: German singing tracts of the 17th century , contain tracts by Herbst, Daniel Friderici and Johann Crüger . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1754-1 .

literature

• Robert Eitner:  Autumn, Johann Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 50.
• Lothar Hoffmann inheritance law:  Herbst, Johann Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 592 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Heike Gilbert: Herbst, Johann Andreas in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon
• Works by and about Johann Andreas Herbst in the catalog of the German National Library
• Herbst, Johann Andreas. Hessian biography. (As of January 22, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).