Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrosee

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrosee (born July 31, 1754 in Berlin ; † January 8, 1821 in Züllichau ) was a German hymn poet .

Life

The son of a Huguenot family studied in Frankfurt an der Oder from 1775 to 1777 . For a short time he was vicar in Dresden ; assistant preacher in Berlin ; 1788 court and castle preacher in Züllichau on the Oder . He later became superintendent . Herrosee founded a school, the Daughters School , and taught there and at the pedagogy and teachers' seminar .

Works

• Gedor, or: The awakening to a better life. Oratorio libretto, set to music by Johann Heinrich Rolle and Moritz Friedrich August Kähler
• Thank the Lord! We thank the Lord (Music: Karl Friedrich Schulz ; EG 333, MG 25)
• Delighted by you (three stanzas from it set to music by Ludwig van Beethoven under the title Zärtliche Liebe (“I love you”) (WoO 123), approx. 1795; further settings are by Johann Heinrich Egli (1742–1810), Carl Hanke (1749 –1803), Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750-1817) and Gary Bachlund (* 1947))

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Herrosee, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 774.
• Rainer Hauke: Herrosee, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50323-7 , p. 149 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrosee in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrosee in VD 18 .
• Sheet music and audio files by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrosee in the International Music Score Library Project
• Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrosee at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ urn : nbn: de: hbz: 5: 1-197398
2. ↑ RISM ID: 464121101
3. ↑ Zärtliche Liebe, WoO 123 (Beethoven, Ludwig van) : Notes and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Max Friedlaender : The original text of Beethoven's “I love you”. In: Jahrbuch der Musikbibliothek Peters , Volume 6, 1899 (1900), p. 76 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
5. ^ "I love you" Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrosee, Freiburg anthology ( Memento from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Author: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrosee (1764-1821) , The LiederNet Archive
7. ↑ RISM ID: 600258713
8. ↑ I love you , bachlund.org, accessed June 11, 2020