Johann Jeep

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Johann Jeep (1635)
Johann Jeep (1614)

Johann Jeep (* 1582 in Dransfeld ; † November 19, 1644 in Hanau ) was a German organist , conductor and song composer .

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Substantial parts of Johann Jeep's biography can be found, in addition to his own musical publications, in a Hanau funeral speech, and also in files from the composer's time in Weikersheim and Frankfurt . They show that Jeep comes from a respected Dransfeld family; his father Heinrich Jeep was a shepherd and farmer. After attending the Latin school in Göttingen and Celle , he was accepted into the court orchestra in Celle because of his “graceful discant voice” . Around the year 1600 he turned to Nuremberg and Altdorf for further music studies . In a dedication text from 1609 he appears as "Artis Musices Studiosus", which indicates a musician profession without previous employment. There is no direct evidence of his time in Nuremberg, but the eulogies for his student garden show the appreciation on the part of the intellectual elite of Nuremberg and Altdorf. Music historians believe that Jeep could have had lessons from Hans Leo Haßler (Haßler was Chief Musician in Nuremberg from 1601 to 1605 ), or perhaps from his brother Caspar Haßler (1562-1618) or from the Sebaldus organist Hans Christoph Heyden (1572– 1617). It is not included in the lists of students at the University of Nuremberg in Altdorf, but an obituary mentions Altdorf as one of Jeep's study locations, including a study trip to "France, Italy, Venice etc.", which may have taken place in 1608 / 09 took place.

In autumn 1613 the composer succeeded Erasmus Widmann in the place of music director and organist at the court of Prince von Hohenlohe in Weikersheim. Here Jeep married the widowed Barbara Herbst in 1614, with whom he had a daughter. He remained in the service of Prince von Hohenlohe until 1636, and from 1627 mainly as a tax officer in the nearby town of Hollenbach . After the death of his first wife, Jeep married the widowed Anna Margarete Sturm in 1624, with whom he also had a daughter.

The turmoil of the Thirty Years' War , especially the Nördlinger Battle of 1634, forced him to leave Weikersheim; he went to Frankfurt am Main and took over the office of music director from Johann Andreas Herbst on his special recommendation, who in 1636 followed an appointment as Kapellmeister at the Nuremberg Frauenkirche. Jeep, however, had no luck in this position; the city council of Frankfurt was looking for a successor behind his back as early as 1639. After the council had resigned, the position was filled again. The disappointed jeep was on its way back to Weikersheim in the summer of 1640, but stayed in Hanau, where it was presumably working in school; in 1642 he found a position as Kapellmeister at the court of Count von Hanau-Münzenberg, where he also worked as organist of the Marienkirche. However, his successful years as a composer were over.

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Johann Jeep was an important master of the German song and contributed a lot to the development of this genre with his collections of Student Garden , Spiritual Psalms and Church Hymns, and Devotional Bed Booklet . He was also a linguistically gifted author, as can be seen from the text of an Italian Tricinia collection from 1610. He also wrote the texts in his student garden. Together with his music, he hit a pleasant note here that met with great response; In addition, his musical writing shows elegance and a trained composer, which is borne out by a few interspersed motet- serious sentences. The musical epitaph for Valentin Haussmann indicates a closer relationship between the composer and this important author of Italian text adaptations. Jeep's cantional movements are solid, but stick to what is customary at the time, just as his last madrigal composition from 1640 does not have an independent continuo part . Jeep also worked as an engraver . His four-part song “Musica, die sehr lieblich Kunst” from 1614 is still popular today. In Dransfeld, Johannes-Jeep-Straße is named after him.

Works

  • Sacred vocal music
    • “Fili in tua infirmitate ne despicias teipsum” with three voices in Sacrarum melodiarum tribus vocibus compositarum , Nuremberg 1605
    • “Spiritual Psalms and Church Chants” with four voices, Nuremberg 1609
    • "Christ, holy God" with four votes, Nuremberg 1615 (lost)
    • [114] "Spiritual psalms and church chants like them [...] in advance to Weikersheimb in the [...] Grafschracht Hohenlohe etc. to sing" to four voices, Nuremberg 1629 (including five own melodies)
    • "Devotional bed book", Ulm 1631 (lost)
    • “This is my dear son”, canon with four voices, Frankfurt am Main 1635
    • "Weynachtsgesang", Frankfurt am Main 1637 (lost)
    • "Hymnus hymenaeus [...] apart from the 2nd chapter of the Hohenlieds Salomonis [...] on Italian madrigals arth" for five voices and basso continuo, Hanau 1640
    • "Oh God and Lord" for four voices, in Harmonious Choir and Figural Singing Book , Frankfurt am Main 1659
    • “Nobody despairs in God” to four votes
  • Secular vocal music
    • "Studentengärtleins first part [17] new funny secular song" with three to five voices, Nuremberg (editions 1 to 3: 1605–1610, lost), editions 4 to 7: 1614, 1618, 1622 and 1626
    • "Studentengärtleins Ander Theil, [17] new funny secular song" with four to five voices, Nuremberg 1614, 1619 and 1622
    • "Little musical piece", Frankfurt am Main 1638 (lost)
  • Adaptations and editions
    • [24] "Beautiful, exquisite, lovely Tricinia, first issued by Laurentio Medico in the Wellscher language, now [...] replaced with amusing German texts", Nuremberg 1610
    • "24 Psalms [...] by [...] Ambrosio Lobwassern", in Geistliche Psalmen , 1629 (adaptation of Erasmus Widmann's sentences)
    • “Christliches Gesang-Büchlein”, Ulm 1648 (devotional book without notes).

Literature (selection)

  • C. von Winterfeld: The Protestant Church Chant , Volume 2, Leipzig 1845.
  • Robert Eitner:  Jeep, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 750.
  • C. Valentin: History of Music in Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main 1906, page 156–158.
  • W. Vetter: Das Frühdeutsche Lied , Münster 1928, pages 77-91.
  • L. Hübsch-Pfleger: The Nürnberger Lied in the German style change around 1600 , dissertation at the University of Heidelberg 1944.
  • Wilfried Brennecke: The Hohenlohesche Gesangbuch from 1629 and Johann Jeep , in: Yearbook for Liturgy and Hymnology No. 4, 1958/59, page 41-72.
  • Wilfried Brennecke:  Jeep, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 384 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Johannes Jeep: 400th anniversary 1582–1982 , ed. by Ms. Rehkop with contributions by the same, J. Jünemann and H. Möller, Dransfeld 1982.
  • H. Detering: Homer, James Joyce and Johann Jeep: On a quote in the "Ulysses" , in: Mitteilungen der Raabe-Gesellschaft No. 75, 1988, Issue 1, pages 9-11.
  • Bernhard Hemmerle:  JEEP (Jepp), Johann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 26, Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 3-88309-354-8 , Sp. 727-731.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Commons : Johann Jeep  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Thomas Röder: Jeep, Johann , in: Ludwig Finscher (Ed.), The Music in Past and Present , Second Edition, Person Part, Volume 9 (Him - Kel), Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618- 1119-5 , columns 979-980
  2. ↑ Marc Honegger, Günther Massenkeil : The great lexicon of music , Volume 4, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1981, ISBN 3-451-18054-5
  3. ↑ Wilfried Brennecke: The funeral sermon on Johann Jeep: News on Biography , in: Archives for Musicology No. 15, 1958, pages 101–112


personal data
SURNAME Jeep, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jeep, Johannes; Yep, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German song composer, organist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1582
PLACE OF BIRTH Dransfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1644
Place of death Hanau