Liebhold

Liebhold (t) († around 1730 near Gotha ) was a German composer. His first name and his life dates are unknown. According to the musicologist and Liebhold contemporary Johann Gottfried Walther , Liebhold was a "raw person, only stayed in the villages, did not go to any church, did not enjoy the Sacra". He also played the violin and the French horn . He also emerged as a lyricist. Walther reports that Liebhold froze to death near Gotha around 1730.

Works

Measured by his level of fame, von Liebhold has received an extraordinarily large amount of sacred vocal music. A total of 130 cantatas and 22  motets can be found in various libraries and church archives  . Liebhold's compositional style is simple, almost naive, and is characterized by a sometimes very colorful instrumentation. Among other things, he used rather seldom found instruments in church music in the early 18th century, such as B. French horn, Corno per force , Corno da Caccia or Clarino sourdino . Liebhold's compositional talent was not valued particularly highly in the 18th century. On the copy of one of his cantatas there is the following note, made by the Brunswick palace cantor Heinrich Bokemeyer: “A sample of the composition of a certain Liebhold, who had no permanent position, Clauseln collected a. the same after St. Telemann's sayings, unfortunate. glued together. "

• 22 motets (Thuringian motets from the 1st half of the 18th century. Edited by Max Seiffert )
• 2 complete volumes of church cantatas in Schotten (Hesse), cantor library
• Individual cantatas are preserved in the Berlin State Library , the Brussels Conservatory Library , the church archives in Müelte / Geiseltal (now kept in the Halle University Library ), Mügeln (Saxony), Udestedt and Großfahner (Thuringia, both kept in the Thuringian State Music Archive Weimar ), Friedberg and Alsfeld (Hesse).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter's letter of September 19, 1740, quoted from MGG Volume 8, Liebold article
2. ↑ quoted from: Harald Kümmerling, catalog of the Bokemeyer collection (= Kieler Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft, Volume XVIII) , Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel 1970; also cited in: Max Seiffert, foreword p. IX in: Monuments of German Tonkunst, 1st part, Volume 49/50 1915, (online)

literature

• Karl Schmidt: Contributions to the knowledge of the cantata composer Liebhold. In: Archives for Musicology . 3rd year, issue 3, 1921, pp. 255–269.
• Otto Brodde : From the Thuringian motet master Liebhold. In: Journal of Musicology . Volume 16, 1934, p. 248.
• Steffen Voss : The music collection in the Udestedt parish archive. Investigations into the music history of Thuringia in the 17th and 18th centuries (= writings on Central German music history. Volume 10). Wagner, Schneverdingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-88979-095-8 .

Web links

• Works by and about Liebhold in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Liebhold  in the German Digital Library
• Sheet music and audio files from Liebhold in the International Music Score Library Project