Johann Christian Schieferdecker

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Johann Christian Schieferdecker (also Schiefferdecker; born November 10, 1679 in Teuchern near Weißenfels , † April 5, 1732 in Lübeck ) was a German church musician , organist and composer .

Life

Johann Christian Schieferdecker was born as the son of the Zeitz- born cantor and later court organist Christian Schieferdecker († 1711) in Teuchern. His uncle was the theologian and hymn poet Johann David Schieferdecker, who was born not far from Weißenfels . After attending the Leipzig Thomas School from 1692 to 1697, he studied at the Leipzig University, where two of his operas were performed.

His friend Reinhard Keizer , who also came from Teuchern, brought him to the Hamburg Opera House on Gänsemarkt as a harpsichordist in 1702 , where he worked with Georg Bronner and Johann Mattheson and, among other things, revised the opera Der Königliche Printz Regnerus (1702), which was performed in Weissenfels in 1701 had been performed. Two years later he first became a student, then assistant to Dieterich Buxtehude at the Marienkirche in Lübeck . When Buxtehude died in 1707, Schieferdecker was his successor. In this context, he had to marry Anna Margareta Buxtehude, one of the daughters of his predecessor. Johann Mattheson reported that this condition had prevented him, Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach from trying to succeed Buxtehude. Schieferdecker's successor was Johann Paul Kunzen .

Honors

The asteroid (7881) Schieferdecker was named after Schieferdecker .

plant

Very little of Schieferdecker's certainly extensive work has survived. What is certain is that he continued the cycle of public concerts, the evening music , begun by Franz Tunder and firmly established by Buxtehude at the Marienkirche . Of the works composed for this, such as The patient Creutz-wearer Job (1720) or The fiery fall of Sodom and Gomorrae (1721), only the textbooks for the performances from 1714 to 1729 are available. From 1707 to 1714 the lawyer and poet Andreas Lange was her librettist, in 1716 and 1717 it was Michael Christoph Brandenburg .

Other works include the sacred concerts :

  • Auf, auf, mein Herz, Sinn und Gemüte ( Royal Conservatory Brussels 899) for bass, 2 violins, viola da gamba and harpsichord
  • Soft, you black mourning clouds (Brussels, Royal Conservatory 900) for bass, 2 violins, viola da gamba and harpsichord
  • Triumph, Triumph, Belial is now sold (Brussels, Royal Conservatory 901) for bass, 2 violins, viola da gamba and harpsichord
  • In te Domine speravi ( Berlin State Library Mus.ms. 30095, 1081) for tenor, violin and basso continuo
  • XII. Musical concerts, consisting of several overtures and suites. Hamburg 1713 (Wiesentheid, music collection of the Counts of Schönborn-Wiesentheid), for 3 violins, viola, 3 oboes, bassoon and basso continuo.

as well as orchestral overtures and suites :

literature

  • Text books of the Lübeck Evening Music (collection of all text books from 1714 to 1729)
Digitized version, Lübeck City Library

Recordings

  • Sacred concerts: Triumph, Triumph, Belial is now exhausted; Up, up, my heart, mind and soul; In te domine speravi; Give way, you black clouds of mourning. Klaus Mertens , Hamburger Ratsmusik , Simone Eckert. Carus-Verlag, 2012.
  • [Selection of Concerts No. 1, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 13:] Musicalische Concerts (Hamburg 1713). Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg. Challenge Classics, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav H. Heydenreich: Church and School Chronicle of the City and Ephorie Weißenfels since 1539. Kell, Weißenfels 1840, p. 195.
  2. ^ Dorothea Schröder:  Schieferdecker [Schieferdecker], Johann Christian. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
predecessor Office successor
Dieterich Buxtehude Organist at St. Marien zu Lübeck
1707–1732 		Johann Paul Kunzen
personal data
SURNAME Slater, Johann Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johann Christian Schiefferdecker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Composer and organist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1679
PLACE OF BIRTH Teuchern near Weißenfels
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1732
Place of death Lübeck