Johann Christoph Pezel

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Johann (es) Christoph Pezel (also Pezelius, Pecelius, Petzold, Pezoldt, Petzel, Pezely, Pecelij, Betzel, Betzeld, Bezeld or Bässel; * December 5, 1639 in Glatz , Grafschaft Glatz ; † October 13, 1694 in Bautzen ) a German town piper and composer.

Life

Pezel attended grammar school in Bautzen and received his musical training from the Bautzen town musician Nikolaus Leuterding (* 1600). For the period between 1657 and 1664, stays in Italy, Moravia, Leipzig and in a monastery are discussed, as his later biography gives evidence of this. From 1664 he worked as an art violinist in Leipzig and on June 20, 1665 married Susanna Janson, the daughter of the Leipzig dance master Antonius Janson. Four children emerged from this connection. In 1668 he received a special salary for his work as a trumpeter in the Nikolaikirche. In 1669 he became a town piper. In the same year the Musica Vespertina Lipsica was published , his first major musical work, which he dedicated to his benefactor Gabriel Rudolff, an influential citizen from Halle. From 1672 he headed the Collegium musicum . In 1675 and 1679 he applied in vain for a position as a council musician in Dresden . An application for the Thomaskantorat also failed in 1677. In 1681 he finally became a town musician in Bautzen . Pezel's compositions are in the tradition of the older German suites. The melodies often have French and Italian influences.

Works (selection)

  • Musika Vespertina Lipsica , also Leipziger Abendmusik , 1669 (suites for two violins, two violas and basso continuo ). The work consists of 101 movements and can be arranged according to keys in twelve suites that begin with a sonata, sonatina or capriccio and end with a gigue .
  • Hora decima musicorum Lipsiensium , 1670 (sonatas for wind instruments or strings)
  • Beautiful, funny, and graceful new arias , 1672
  • Bicinia variorum instrumentorum , 1675
  • Delitiae musicales , 1678
  • Five-part wind music , 1685 (sonatas for 3 trombones and 2 prongs)
  • Opus musicum sonatarum praestantissimarum 6 instrumentis instructum (25 sonatas for strings), published in 1686 by Balthasar Christoph Wust in Frankfurt

literature

  • Kivie Cahn-Lipman: The Opus Musicum Sonatarum (1686) of Johann Pezel, Electronic Thesis or Dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 2016 (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Kivie Cahn-Lipman: The Opus Musicum Sonatarum (1686) of Johann Pezel . 2016 ( ohiolink.edu [accessed March 1, 2020] University of Cincinnati).
personal data
SURNAME Pezel, Johann Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pezelius, Johann Christoph; Betzel, Johann Christoph; Betzeld, Johann Christoph; Petzold, Johann Christoph; Petzel, Johann Christoph; Bässel, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German town piper and Baroque composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1639
PLACE OF BIRTH Glatz , County Glatz
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1694
Place of death Bautzen