Johann Sebastiani (composer)
Johann Sebastiani (born September 30, 1622 near Weimar , † 1683 in Königsberg ) was a German composer of church music , stage works as well as sacred and secular chants. According to Georg Christoph Pisanski , Sebastiani was in Italy for study purposes. From 1653 at the latest - possibly even earlier - he lived in Königsberg, where he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Elector of Brandenburg in 1661 .
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Sebastiani's work includes, among other things
- an oratorical passion according to Matthew 26, 1 - 12,
- the two-volume collection of sacred and secular polyphonic chants and unison figured bass songs based on poems by Gertraud Moller , called the Parnassus flowers (...) ,
- at least one complete year of cantatas (lost),
- the stage work Pastorello musicale ( Shepherd's Play in Love ) as the earliest surviving evidence of the occupation of a composer north of the Alps with the then still new genre of opera .
Many of Johann Sebastiani's works that were kept in the Königsberg library have been lost since the Second World War , including the year of church cantatas mentioned by Sebastiani in the preface to his St. Matthew Passion . The Pastorello musicale was rediscovered and reissued in 2001 in Vilnius by the Leipzig musicologist Michael Maul . Johann Mattheson mentions Sebastiani in The Perfect Capellmeister and cites a song from the Parnaßblumen collection as an example of the melismatic spelling in the chamber style.
literature
- Robert Eitner: Sebastiani, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 505 f.
- Werner Friedrich: Sebastiani, Johann . In: Friedrich Blume , Hg .: Music in the past and present . Kassel, 1965.
- Johann Sebastiani: The Leyden and dying of our Lord and Heylandes Jesus Christ according to the holy Matthæo . Koenigsberg, 1672.
- Johann Mattheson : The perfect Capellmeister . Hamburg, 1739.
Web links
- Works by and about Johann Sebastiani in the catalog of the German National Library
- Pastorello musicale Shepherd's game in love at the music publisher Ortus
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of Prussian literary history . Koenigsberg, 1853
- ↑ The full title of Volume 1 is: First Part of the Parnassus Flowers or Spiritual and Secular Songs , printed in 1672; the title of volume 2 is Ander Part der Parnass-Blumen , printed in 1675.
- ↑ ISMN M-700150-42-6
- ↑ Johann Mattheson: The perfect Capellmeister . Hamburg, 1739. p. 93
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sebastiani, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer of church music, stage works as well as sacred and secular chants |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1622 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1683 |
| Place of death | Koenigsberg |