Johannes Werlin (Benedictine)

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Johannes Werlin OSB ( baptized December 25, 1588 in Landsberg am Lech ; † May 29, 1666 in Seeon-Seebruck ) was a Bavarian Benedictine priest , composer and song collector.

Life

Werlin was the son of the tailor Gaspar Werlin and received lessons at the monastery schools in Dießen and Andechs . He entered the Seeon monastery as a novice in 1609 and was ordained priest in Salzburg in 1614 . In 1625 he became prior in Seeon, in 1634 also choir director. 1637–39 Werlin worked as a subprior of Attel Abbey . In 1640 he was a priest at the pilgrimage church Maria Eck . In 1659 he resigned his priory due to health problems and, partially paralyzed, he was wasting away in his last years.

Werlin was musically gifted and educated in many ways and wrote several church music works. His main work, however, is his large-scale handwritten collection of songs from the 16th and 17th centuries, created between 1646 and 1648, which he systematized and arranged according to the stanza schemes. This six-volume collection, which contains folk songs as well as works by other composers and Werlin's own songs, is considered one of the most important sources for the German song of the early baroque and is the only surviving source for many of the songs it contains.

Works

  • Two antiphonaries for Abbess Cleopha von Niederschönenfeld , 1645 (lost).
  • Rhitmorum varietas. Typi, exempla, & modulationes rhythmorum Opera & studia. 6 vols., 1646
  • Nundinae Metrorum In quibus Omnivaria metrorum varietas ex variis Poetarum Coryphaeis eruta absque argento vaenit Atque ad Lyricam adornandam Poesin proponitur. 1648.

Songs:

  • Dark clouds
  • Merry shepherds, merry boys
  • I am a free farmhand
  • Wrangel does one thing
  • Because God created the world

literature

  • Max Böhm: Johannes Werlin, the Seeoner. In: Bayer. Jb. F. Folklore, 1952, pp. 107-114.
  • Uwe Harten : Werlin, P. Johannes OSB. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
  • Dorothea Hofmann : The "Rhitmorum Varietas" by Johannes Werlin from Seeon Abbey (= Collectanea musicologica ; Volume 7). Wißner, Augsburg 1994, ISBN 3-928898-34-5 , also: Dissertation University of Augsburg 1992.
  • Dorothea Hofmann:  Werlin, Johannes OSB. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 17 (Vina - Zykan). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7618-1137-5 , Sp. 785–786 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Walter Salmen : The old German song in Johannes Werlin's collection from 1646. In: Bayer. Yearbook for Folklore, 1953, p. 133 ff.
  • Marie-Therese Schmücker: Johannes Werlin's song manuscript from 1648. Phil. Diss. Bln. 1927, DNB 571522580 .
  • O. Origin: Johannes Werlin from Seeon great song work (1646/47) as practically performed poetics. In: ZfMw 16, 1934, p. 321 ff.
  • Charles A. Williams: German Stanzas from Joh. Werlin's Rhythmorum Varietas. In: Modern Language Notes Vol. 33, No. 3 (Mar., 1918), pp. 146-150, JSTOR 2915606 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Kraxner: The Christmas shepherd's song from Carinthian sources (= Corpus musicae popularis Austriacae: Complete edition of folk music in Austria , Volume 15.1). Böhlau, Wien 2000, ISBN 3-205-99224-5 , pp. 103-105 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.music.7.1/070107.htm
  3. ↑ Text on: The Wrangel does one dare ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Folk Music Archive of the Upper Bavaria District @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksmusik-archiv.de
  4. ↑ Text on: Since God created the world ( memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Folk Music Archive of the Upper Bavaria District @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksmusik-archiv.de
personal data
SURNAME Werlin, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werlin, Johann; Werlinus, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine priest, composer and song collector
DATE OF BIRTH baptized December 25, 1588
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg am Lech
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1666
Place of death Seeon-Seebruck