Johann Georg Schürer

Johann Georg (Adam) Schürer (* around 1720 in Raudnitz (Roudnice) on the Elbe in Bohemia ; † February 16, 1786 in Dresden ) was a musician and composer at the Dresden court.

Life

Schürer was a student at the Kapellknabeninstitut in Dresden from 1732 to 1739 and a teacher at the trivial school of the Jesuits in Dresden from 1740 to 1748. Between 1746 and 1748 the Mingottische Operntruppe performed five operas by Schürer in Dresden. In 1748 Schürer became a "church composer" in the court church and received a salary of 300 thalers . His job was to lead Catholic church music for the Dresden court, initially in a chapel on Taschenberg (former opera house on Taschenberg ), and from 1751 in the newly built court church . In this context, Schürer received an increase in salary of 200 thalers in 1754. In 1765 he married the chamber singerWilhelmine Denner. Since 1772 he was supported by his students Joseph Schuster and Franz Seydelmann . At the end of his life, Schürer was not in good health, so he went on two recreational trips in 1773 and 1775. In 1780 he was retired. He died in Dresden in 1786.

Works

Johann Georg Schürer left behind over six hundred handwritten scores, including a. 40 masses , three requiems , 140 psalms, but also oratorios, four Italian operas and a German singspiel. He sold manuscripts of his compositions in 1767, 1772 and 1782. For this purpose, he prepared a directory for each. This includes the 40 masses, three Requiems and three Te Deum as well as numerous compositions of individual liturgical chants, such as the Regina caeli , the Salve Regina and the Lauretanian litany , as well as over 150 psalm compositions. Schürer's work is only partially preserved. His recognition among contemporaries is said to have suffered from the fact that he never made a trip to Italy .

Operas

Astrea placata ovvero La felicità della terra , (Biaggio Campagnari after Pietro Metastasio), componimento drammatico 1 act (October 7, 1746 Warsaw; October 29, 1746 Dresden, Mingottisches Theater)
La Galatea (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica 2 acts (Nov. 8, 1746 Dresden, Mingottisches Theater)
Doris , a musical shepherd's game, 2 parts (Feb. 13, 1747 Dresden, Mingottisches Theater)
L'Ercole sul Termodonte (Giacomo Francesco Bussani), dramma per musica 3 acts (July 19, 1747 Dresden, Mingottisches Theater)
Calandro (Stefano Pallavicino), comedia per musica 3 acts (Jan. 20, 1748 Dresden, Mingottisches Theater)

Church music

Isacco figura del redentore (Pietro Metastasio, 1748)
La passione di Gesù Cristo (Pietro Metastasio, 1755)

literature

Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg , Helmuth Slapnicka: Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum . Vol. III. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-55973-7 , p. 778
Constantin von Wurzbach : Schürer, Adam . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 32nd part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1876, p. 121 f. ( Digitized version ).
Robert Eitner: Schürer, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 83.
Dieter Hartwig: Johann Georg Schürer in: Music in Past and Present , Vol. 12, 192, 1965.

Web links

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

Works by Johann Georg Schürer in the catalog of the German National Library
Sheet music and audio files by Johann Georg Schürer in the International Music Score Library Project
List of stage works by Johann Georg Schürer based on the MGG at Operone

Individual evidence

↑ Andrea Hartmann: A festive mass in the middle of the war, program for the performance of the Missa ad sanctum Antonium de Padua (Antonius Mass) in D minor by Schürer on December 25, 2010 in the Catholic Hofkirche Dresden
↑ Works and literature: Article on Johann Georg Schürer in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and in the Riemann Musiklexikon , 9th edition, Berlin 1919

personal data
SURNAME	Schürer, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schürer, Adam (temporary name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Composer at the Dresden court
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	February 16, 1786
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Andrea Hartmann: A festive mass in the middle of the war, program for the performance of the Missa ad sanctum Antonium de Padua (Antonius Mass) in D minor by Schürer on December 25, 2010 in the Catholic Hofkirche Dresden

[2] Works and literature: Article on Johann Georg Schürer in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and in the Riemann Musiklexikon , 9th edition, Berlin 1919