Johann Philipp Praetorius
Johann Philipp Praetorius (* 1696 in Elmshorn ; † 1766 in Trier ) was a German librettist .
Life
Praetorius completed a law degree and received his doctorate. He then became Count of Rantzau's councilor.
He was one of the most productive librettists at the Hamburg Opera am Gänsemarkt . The text to Georg Philipp Telemann's Kapitänsmusiken 1724 comes from his pen as well as the opera libretti “ Pimpinone or The Unequal Marriage ” and “The Hamburger Jahr-Marckt or The Happy Fraud” from 1725, as well as “Calypso” two years later. Praetorius also wrote libretti for Reinhard Keizer .
From 1734 to 1744 Praetorius worked as a court clerk in Colmar near Glückstadt . In 1744 he followed the call of the Trier Elector Franz Georg von Schönborn to the professorship for constitutional law and history. In order to maintain this position, Praetorius converted to the Catholic faith and was appointed court counselor . The university library, which was still small, was transferred to him, to which he added extensive and expensive collections on constitutional law and history.
literature
- Christian Seebald: Libretti from the "Middle Ages". Discoveries of history in (north) German and European opera around 1700 (= early modern times. 134). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-484-36634-3 (also: Cologne, University, dissertation, 2007).
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Philipp Praetorius in the catalog of the German National Library
- Praetorius, Johann Philipp. Biography. on: Zeno.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Praetorius, Johann Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1696 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elmshorn |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1766 |
| Place of death | trier |