Johann Schop

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Johann Schop

Johann Schop (* around 1590 in Hamburg ; † summer 1667 there ) was a German musician and composer .

Life

Schop was probably born in Hamburg around 1590. In 1614 he became a musician at the Wolfenbütteler Hofkapelle, where he played the violin , lute , trumpet and zinc . In 1615 he went to Copenhagen and made music at the royal court of Christian IV , from where he fled in 1619 due to the spreading plague . First he went to Iburg, where he worked at the court of the Osnabrück bishop Philipp Sigismund. In Hamburg he first became a member of the council music , in 1621 finally its director and municipal music director . He later worked as an organist at the Jacobikirche .

For the wedding of Christian , the Crown Prince of Denmark and Norway, he again traveled to Copenhagen with Heinrich Schütz in 1634 . The king's attempt to bring Schop back to Copenhagen permanently failed. Schop died in Hamburg in the summer of 1667.

Schop had two sons, Johann (* 1626) and Albert (* 1632), who also became musicians.

Johann Schop was one of the first known German violin virtuosos. Its popularity also radiated beyond the city limits of Hamburg. A street was named after him in the Hamburg district of Eimsbüttel.

Works

In addition to instrumental pieces, Schop also received motets and other works. He composed many of his sacred and secular songs to texts by his Hamburg friends Johann Rist , Jacob Schwieger and Philipp von Zesen . The best known of his chorale melodies is Werde Munter, mein Gemüte from 1641. It was used by Johann Sebastian Bach in his cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 ( Happy me that I have Jesus - Jesus remains my joy ).

  • First part of newer Paduanen, Galliard, Allemanden, Balletten, Couranten, Canzon […] à 3–6, Bc Hamburg 1633.
  • Second part of newer Paduanen, Galliard, Allemanden, Balletten, Couranten, Canzon […] à 3–6, Bc Hamburg 1635.
  • Musical joys on Mr. Joachim Beckendorff's [...] wedding day of honor. Hamburg 1640.
  • Johann Risten Himlische Lieder. 5 parts of Lüneburg 1641–42 (50 sacred songs).
  • Des Daphnis from Cimbrien Galathee. (40 secular songs by Schop and others).
  • First part of sacred concerts. Hamburg 1644.
  • Pious and godly Christians ... home music. Lüneburg 1654 (70 spiritual songs by Schop and others).
  • Love grilling, that's pleasure and love, joke and honor songs. 2 parts. Hamburg 1654–56 (100 world songs by Schop and others).
  • The fleeting field roses. Hamburg 1655 (worldly songs).
  • Solomon, King of the Ebre, Spiritual Pleasure. Amsterdam 1657 (23 spiritual songs by Schop and others).

In addition, other instrumental works have survived.

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personal data
SURNAME Schop, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1667
Place of death Hamburg