Johann Heinrich role

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Johann Heinrich role

Johann Heinrich Rolle (born December 23, 1716 in Quedlinburg , † December 29, 1785 in Magdeburg ) was a German composer and music teacher .

Life

Rolle was born as the son of the future cantor at the Magdeburg old town high school Christian Friedrich Rolle . The father took over the education of his musically gifted son. In 1722 the family moved to Magdeburg.

In 1734 Rolle received a position as organist at the Magdeburg Sankt-Petri-Kirche , which he held until 1737. Then Rolle went to Leipzig to study law. He then moved to Berlin, where he worked as a legal advisor for a short time. In 1741 he got a job in the Friedrich II chapel , first as a violinist , then as a violist . In 1746 he returned to Magdeburg as an organist in the Sankt-Johannis-Kirche . In 1752 he succeeded his father as cantor at the grammar school.

Rolle also took on the role of city music director. In this position he worked in the interests of the Enlightenment . He succeeded in making Magdeburg, as one of the first German cities without a residence, staging concerts from 1764 , which developed its national importance.

In 1758 Johann Heinrich Rolle married Rahel Christiana Jacobi, the daughter of a Hamburg merchant. The marriage had four children.

Rolle belonged to the so-called Wednesday Society founded by Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim . Here he maintained contact with Heinrich Rathmann , Friedrich von Koepcken , Johann Bernhard Basedow , Johann Samuel Patzke , Friedrich Gabriel Resewitz , Gottfried Benedict Funk and Gotthilf Sebastian Rötger .

His compositions are in the tradition of the Baroque , however, are already on the transition of the High Baroque towards the so-called gallant style of Rococo coined. Rolle left a multitude of works that are still played today. The texts for eight works are by Johann Samuel Patzke , and for four works the texts were written by August Hermann Niemeyer .

Honors

Memorial plaque on the house where Rolles was born in Quedlinburg

The city of Magdeburg has named a street in his honor as Rollestrasse . The music school in Quedlinburg bears his name.

Works

Motets

  • Come, come, let's worship
  • The peace of God
  • Gracious and merciful
  • Our soul waits for the Lord
  • Create in me, God, a pure heart (Psalm 51)

Cantatas , musical dramas and oratorios

Songs

  • Collection of sacred songs for lovers of unaffected singing and easy piano accompaniment (1775)
  • Sixty exquisite chants about the works of God in nature (1775)

Instrumental works

  • 6 trio sonatas for violin and harpsichord
  • various symphonies

Works for keyboard instruments

  • Piano solo in E flat major
  • Piano sonata in G major (both from the collection "Musical Allerley" 1762/1763)
  • Concerto Solo in B flat major
  • Solo in E flat minor

Recordings (selection)

  • St. Matthew Passion. Ana-Marija Brkic (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (alto), Georg Poplutz (tenor), Thilo Dahlmann , Raimonds Spogis (bass), Die Kölner Akademie , Michael Alexander Willens. CPO / Deutschlandfunk , 2015.
  • Motets . Complete recording Vol. I & II, Michaelstein Chamber Choir, Sebastian Göring. CPO, 2014.
  • Oratorio on Christmas . Gundula Anders (soprano), Dorothee Mields (soprano), Britta Schwarz (alto), Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Dirk Schmidt (bass), Michaelstein Chamber Choir, Michaelstein Telemann Chamber Orchestra, Ludger Rémy. CPO, 1997.

literature

  • Hans Michel Schletterer :  role, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 78-84.
  • Rudolf Kaestner: Johann Heinrich role. Studies of life and work. Kassel 1932.
  • Erich Valentin : Johann Heinrich role. A central German musician of the 18th century. In: Saxony and Anhalt 9, 1933, pp. 109–160.
  • Martin Wiehle : Magdeburg personalities. Published by the Magistrate of the City of Magdeburg, Department of Culture. imPuls Verlag, Magdeburg 1993, ISBN 3-910146-06-6 .
  • Ralph-Jürgen Reipsch: Johann Heinrich Rolles 'Musical Dramas' - Notes on the basics and appearance of a musical genre. In: Händel-Jahrbuch der Georg-Friedrich-Händelgesellschaft 47, 2001, pp. 203–223.
  • Ralph-Jürgen Reipsch, Andreas Waczkat:  role, Johann Heinrich. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 14 (Riccati - Schönstein). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1134-9  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Andreas Waczkat: Johann Heinrich Rolles musical dramas: theory, work inventory and tradition of a genre in the context of bourgeois sensibility (= writings on Central German music history ; vol. 15). Ortus music publisher. Beeskow 2007, ISBN 978-3-937788-13-5 (Zugl .: Universität Rostock, habilitation thesis, 2005).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ urn : nbn: de: hbz: 5: 1-197398
personal data
SURNAME Rolle, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1785
Place of death Magdeburg