Johann Georg Franz Braun

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Johann Georg Franz Braun, Odae sacrae (1658), title page

Johann Georg Franz Braun (* before 1630 in Ubthal ; † 1678 in Eger ) was a German-Bohemian Catholic cantor, composer and hymnbook editor .

Life and Publications

Johann Georg Franz Braun published the Latin sacred choir book Odae sacrae with his own compositions and arrangements in 1658 . On the title page he is called "Choir conductor at St. Nicholas in Eger". In 1664 followed the Marian Psalter / that is: Siben big and small times of the day / the pure and stained / also gruesome Virgin Mary, among other beautiful little prayers , a devotional book for the local Marian brotherhood , supervised by Jesuits , to which Braun himself belonged. Since this collection of songs and prayer was quickly sold out, he gave it, greatly increased, in 1675 as Echo Hymnodiae Coelestis, an echo of the heavenly singing choir / that is / old and new Catholic church chants / for the greatest times of the whole year / as well Feast days of the given mother of Jesus / and several other saints of God published again.

Braun dedicated his publications to the council of the imperial city of Eger. One of the councilors was his father-in-law. That he belonged to the wealthy upper class of the city is also shown by the representative house on the market square, which he lived from 1659 until his death. His economic livelihood was probably not church music, perhaps a trading company. His song books were replaced by the Hymnodia catholica published in Eger as early as 1701 .

Hymns

Ave Maria tender

Braun's most famous hymn is Ave Maria tender ( Gotteslob 527) from Echo Hymnodiae Coelestis . It is there with the Advent songs with the explanation: “This new little song cannot be heard alone. Advent - but at all times / at will / to be sung ”. Braun composed the expressive melody ? / i to a prayer text written by himself to the Immaculate Received Mother of God , the original version of which, however, has rhyme and meter errors and differs greatly from the one sung today. "The flawlessness of the melody carries a text that is not quite so flawless to unexpected heights" (Kurzke / Schäfer). Audio file / audio sample

1. Ave Maria tender /
you noble rose garden /
lilies know without any thorns: /:
I greet you at the hour /
with Gabrieli's mouth /
Ave that you are full of grace.

2. You have the Supreme Son /
Mary pure and beautiful /
locked up in your body: /:
Jesus the dear child /
so that the sinners blind /
saved from all harm.

3. Through Eve apple-bite /
God cast us out /
and should be lost forever: /:
There is divine word /
JEsus your little son /
a man was born for our salvation.

4. Through his precious blood /
the courage of Satan was
overthrown / the gate of hell was broken: /:
red through his five wounds /
and his painful death /
smelled of death and the defiance of the devil.

5. Therefore / O mother mildly /
command us your child /
ask that he forgive our sins: /:
At last after this suffering /
the eternal joy of heaven /
through you Mary bestow us / Amen.

Ave Maria tender can still be found in the Egerian hymn book from 1701, but only then again in song collections from the Restoration and Romanticism of the 19th century.

More songs

Other melodies by Braun sung to this day are Heilig are you, great God (GL 198), also under the title Heilig ist Gott Zebaot (GL Bistum Würzburg 731; GL Austria 770), God in the heights be consecrated (GL Austria 716) and On the Mount of Olives in nocturnal silence (GL Church Province Hamburg 766).

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Franz Braun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ non-localizable place name
  2. ↑ a b c d Kurzke / Schäfer
  3. ^ Regens Chori ad S. Nicolaum Egrae
  4. ↑ a b Kvapil p. 22
  5. ↑ Fr. Bollens: The German Choralgesang of the Catholic Church. Laupp, Tübingen 1851, pp. 96–97 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  6. ^ Franz Schäfer: Keyword "Kirchenlied, kath." In: Sudetendeutsches Musikinstitut (Hrsg.): Lexicon for German music culture. Bohemia, Moravia, Sudeten Silesia. Volume 1. Langen Müller, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7844-2799-5 , pp. 695-696. Quoted from: Viktor Velek: Die St. Wenzelsche Musiktradition from its beginning to 1848. Dissertation University of Vienna 2008, p. 239 ( online ; PDF; 3.7 MB).
  7. ↑ a b quoted from Kurzke / Schäfer
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Johann Georg Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Bohemian Catholic cantor, composer and hymnbook editor
DATE OF BIRTH before 1630
PLACE OF BIRTH Ubthal
DATE OF DEATH 1678
Place of death Eger