Johann Nauwach

Johann Nauwach , also Giovanni Nauwach (* around 1595 in Brandenburg , † 1630 in Dresden ) was a German baroque composer .

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From 1607 to 1612 he was Kapellknabe under Hans Leo Haßler in Dresden and then, at the request of Johann Georg I, received musical training in Florence and Turin with the lutenist Lorenzo Allegri before he returned to Dresden in 1618.

Nauwach was a student of Heinrich Schütz and became a lutenist in 1623 under his direction. In the same year he was appointed electoral chamber musician . Until 1629 he was a member of the Dresden court orchestra and composed (after converting to Catholicism ) as one of the first Germans in the style of the Florentine opera monodie Giulio Caccini .

Works

• Libro primo di arie passegiate a una voce per cantar, e sonar nel chitarone, & altri simili istromenti Dresden, 1623
• First part Teütscher Villanelles with 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts directed to the tiorba, lute, clavicymbal, and other instruments Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann, 1627

literature

• Hans Volkmann , Johann Nauwachs Leben , in: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft , Volume 4 (1921), pp. 553-562
• Hans Volkmann, Johann Nauwach , in: Die Musik , Volume 15.2 (1922), pp. 862–865
• Bernhold Schmid :  Nauwach, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 1 ( digitized version ).
• Johann Nauwach with Philipp Spitta:  Schütz, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 753-779.
• In: Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea world of music - The composers - A lexicon in five volumes . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 149/150, volume 4 .

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Nauwach in the catalog of the German National Library
• heinrich-schuetz-haus.de
• George J. Buelow books.google.de A history of baroque music
• Bruns, Katharina The German song from Orlando di Lasso to Johann Hermann Schein , Zurich 2006