Maximilian Dietrich Freislich

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Maximilian Dietrich Freislich (also Freißlich, Fraißlich, baptized on February 6, 1673 in Immelborn near Salzungen , † April 10, 1731 in Danzig ) was a German composer and organist .

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Maximilian Dietrich Freislich, son of the pastor Johann Weigold Freislich, hardly according to Johann Mattheson's foundations of an honorary gate , already in his early youth as a choirboy to Danzig, where he received lessons from Johann Valentin Meder , with whom he also lived. Mattheson quoted Meder: “… ..that his successor, called Maximilian Freislich, had to thank him for his temporary welfare…. He also took him in as a young person, while he was in office in Dantzig, and kept him free in board and lodging for a year, yes, even more than that, because he was a beginner, given the manual in composition and instructed him how to make a fugue and had to work out a counterpoint. ” After 1694 he was commissioned in Mitau by Duke Friedrich Kasimir Kettler as“ director of vocal music and organist ”. After Meder fled Danzig in 1699, Freislich was given the position of Kapellmeister at St. Mary's Church , the city's main church. Through this office he was responsible for the council music . This gave him the right, for example, to deliver wedding music and funeral masses for a fee. Because his income was too low, he submitted a request to the city council in 1715 "to be allowed to run the brewing industry" . After his death, his half-brother Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich took over the position of Kapellmeister at the Marienkirche.

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Freely composed occasional works for occasions in urban life and he adopted Meder's monumental double-choir style for use in the Mariendom.

The only surviving work by Freislich is a Dixit Dominus (Psalm 109) for 2 sopranos, alto, tenor and bass concertato and ripieno from 1726. Numerous church cantata texts have survived, as well as those on occasional music.

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See also

Church music in Gdansk

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Mattheson: Basics of an honor gate p. 218
  2. ^ Helmut Scheunchen : Lexicon of German Baltic Music. Harro von Hirschheydt publishing house, Wedemark-Elze 2002. ISBN 3-7777-0730-9 . P. 77
  3. ↑ Robert Eitner Biographical-Bibliographical Sources-Lexicon of Musicians and Music Scholars (1901) p. 69
  4. ^ François-Joseph Fétis : Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1862)
  5. ^ New MGG : Volume 7, columns 57-58
personal data
SURNAME Freely, Maximilian Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freißlich, Maximilian Dietrich; Correct, Maximilian Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, organist and Kapellmeister
DATE OF BIRTH baptized February 6, 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH Immelborn , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1731
Place of death Danzig