Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich

Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich (also Freißlich, Fraißlich, baptized on March 30, 1687 in Immelborn near Bad Salzungen , † April 17, 1764 in Danzig ) was a German composer and organist .

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Johann Balthasar Freislich, son of a pastor, probably received his musical training at the court of Saxony-Meiningen . The court orchestra there was under the direction of Georg Caspar Schürmann at that time . From 1709, Freislich studied in Jena . In 1714 he got a job as court organist with the Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , where he also had to do school service, in 1716 he was appointed court conductor. His employer sent him to Dresden for a year to learn how to play the newly developed Pantaleon at Pantaleon Hebenstreit .

From 1731, until his death, Freislich succeeded his half-brother Maximilian Dietrich Freislich , Kapellmeister at the Marienkirche , the main church in Danzig. Freislich is considered to be one of Johann Gottlieb Goldberg's teachers . His son-in-law Christian Friedrich Morheim (1719–1780), a student of Johann Sebastian Bach , was his successor at the Marienkirche .

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Freislich composed numerous secular and ecclesiastical cantatas , passions such as the Brockes Passion and a stage work, the lost opera Die verliebte Nun . Of most of the cantatas only the texts have survived. We know of a single, lost instrumental work, a sonata for violin and harpsichord, which was listed in the Breitkopf & Härtel catalog in the second half of the 18th century .

The larger works written for St. Mary's Church in Gdańsk are characterized by a splendid and monumental style. Similar to his predecessor Johann Valentin Meder , he worked with the use of two choirs. Veronika Skuplik found the facsimiles of the cantatas I want to praise the Lord at all times and Fear not, I'm with you in the Danzig library and made material from them for a performance on September 20, 2015 in the Ansgari Church in Oldenburg.

Sound carrier

Cantata on the high birthday of Mr. Augusti III. Kings in Poland , FreisWV E 17; Capella Gedanensis, under Alina Kowalska-Pińczak (Futurex Classics FCD 01216)

literature

Karla Neschke: Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich (1687–1764): Life, work and tradition. With a thematic-systematic directory of his works . 2000, ISBN 3-932090-81-0
Werner Schwarz: Freely, Johann Balthasar Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 399 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Hope equals a wild, cantata for soprano, oboe, violin, viola and basso continuo by Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich on the YouTube channel of the Leipzig Bach Archive

Individual evidence

^ Robert Eitner Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars. 1901, p. 69.
^ François-Joseph Fétis : Biography universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique. 1862
^ MGG : Volume 7, columns 58-61.

personal data
SURNAME	Freely, Johann Balthasar Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Freißlich, Johann Balthasar Christian; Correct, Johann Balthasar Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer, organist and Kapellmeister
DATE OF BIRTH	baptized March 30, 1687
PLACE OF BIRTH	Immelborn (Thuringia)
DATE OF DEATH	April 17, 1764
Place of death	Danzig

[1] Robert Eitner Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars. 1901, p. 69.

[2] François-Joseph Fétis : Biography universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique. 1862

[3] MGG : Volume 7, columns 58-61.