Johann Jacob Pagendarm

Johann Jacob Pagendarm (born December 6, 1647 in Herford , † January 13, 1706 in Lübeck ) was a German church musician.

Life

Johann Jacob Pagendarm was the son of Heinrich Pagendarm and Anna Fürstenau. His brother Johann Anton Pagendarm was a teacher. Johann Pagendarm studied philology and theology at the Universities of Helmstedt and Wittenberg . In 1670 he became cantor of the Osnabrück grammar school .

On August 1, 1679, he was appointed cantor at the Katharineum in Lübeck as the successor to Samuel Franck (1633–1679). This position was remunerated with 300 Marks Lübsch and free accommodation and was in third place in the school's ranking after the principal and sub- principal . He was responsible for Latin lessons in tertia and secondary as well as music lessons and music practice throughout the school.

Linked to this was the position as cantor at St. Mary's Church . Due to the classic division of tasks between cantor and organist , Pagendarm stood there as a musician in the shadow of Dieterich Buxtehude , who had held the much better honored position of organist and master craftsman at St. Marien since 1668. Pagendarms task was limited to the choir direction in the church and the guidance of the congregation singing. Four times a year he gave quarterly music with the choir in the other main churches. It is certain that Johann Sebastian Bach also met Pagendarm during his visit to Buxtehude in 1704/1705.

Pagendarm was also a music history researcher and numismatist and had a well-known coin collection .

Pagendarm had two well-known sons, the clergyman Hermann Heinrich Pagendarm and the theologian Johann Gerhard Pagendarm . his daughter Regina Catharina (* 1688; buried on April 20, 1762 in Lübeck) married his successor as cantor Heinrich Sivers (* June 23, 1674 in Lübeck; † November 6, 1736 there).

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Pagendarm's main work was his chorale book for the Lübeckische Gesangbuch from 1703. In 1705 he provided its 303 chorales with simple sentences and had four part books made for the use of the choir, which were written by the arithmetic masters Christian Partike and Walter Möllrath and have survived to this day.

Only one of his other works is still known today. It is preserved as a manuscript in the Sherard Collection of the Bodleian Library , a sentence for Psalm 37: 5 Commit the Lord your ways in the Venetian style . As tastes in music changed rapidly, the Venetian-style pieces soon went out of fashion. This led to a regrettable destruction of the works today. From the contemporary report of a successor, Caspar Ruetz (1753), we learn that the unpopular sheet music was used to ignite the stove.

literature

• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General lexicon of scholars. Volume 3, 1751
• Ernst Ludwig Gerber : Historical-biographical lexicon of the Tonkünstler . Part 2, 1792
• Zacharias Hasselmann: The praiseworthy way of life of the former Wol-Ehrenvesten Groß-Honorable and Wolgelahrten Lord, Hn. Jacobo Pagendarm, famous Musico ... . Lübeck. 1706
• Wilhelm steel: music history of Lübeck. Volume II: Sacred Music. Bärenreiter, Kassel and Basel 1952 (Pagendarm's appointment document on p. 193)
• Kerala J. Snyder: Dieterich Buxtehude: organist in Lübeck. Schirmer Books, New York 1987, 1993, ISBN 0-02-873080-1
• Alexandra Amati-Camperi: A Taste of Venetian Flavor in Late-17th-Century Lübeck. Paper read at the Meeting of the Northern California Chapter of the American Musicological Society at Mills College (Oct. 19, 1996)
• Alfred Hegge: The Lübeck Cantorat at the Katharineum 1531-1801 . In: Festschrift for the 475th anniversary of the Katharineum in Lübeck. Lübeck 2006, pp. 31–39 (general information on the cantorat in Lübeck)

Web links

• Extensive private page on family history