Melchior Vulpius

Melchior Vulpius , actually Melchior Fuchs (* around 1570 in Wasungen ; buried August 7, 1615 in Weimar ) was a German cantor and hymn composer .

Life

Vulpius came from a poor family of craftsmen. He attended the city school in Wasungen , Thuringia, and received lessons from Johannes Steuerlein . Letters testify that he stayed in Speyer in 1588 and instructed his classmate Chr. Th. Walliser there in the basics of Musica poetica . After his marriage in 1589 he got a job at the Hennebergisches Gymnasium in Schleusingen . In 1596 he was appointed city cantor in Weimar . He wrote and published church music; one of his best-known settings is that for the hymn Oh, stay with your grace to the text by Josua Stegmann , which is sung in Protestant churches at the turn of the year and at the end of the service. Important compilations were the Latin Cantiones sacrae (1602 and 1604); Church chants and sacred songs Dr. Luther (1604); Canticum beatissimae (1605) and A beautiful spiritual hymnal (1609). In 1610 "Cantiones sacrae selectissimae" appeared. The Cantional (a collection of songs) was published posthumously in Gotha in 1646 .

One of the tunes published by Vulpius in 1609 is since 1907 in Norway for the popular national romantic hymn he Fagert lands ( "Beautiful is the land") is used.

Song melodies

The day comes and shows itself
The bright sun
Christ, who is my life / Oh stay with your grace
Praise be to God in the highest throne
Jesus, your passion
The sun is shining down below
Praise the Lord God you Gentiles all

In the Evangelical Hymnal there are nine songs by Melchior Vulpius, in the Catholic Praise to God (2013) five songs (282, 328, 347, 436, 507).

Compositions

Pars prima Cantionum sacrarum 1602
Pars secunda selectissimarum Cantionum sacrarum 1603
Church singing and spiritual songs by D. Martini Lutheri and other devout Christians 1604
First part of the German Sunday Gospels Proverbs 1612
The suffering and death of our Lord Savior Jesus Christ outside the holy evangelist Matthew 1613 (new edition 1981)
The other part of the German Sunday Ev. Proverbs 1614

Discography

Cantiones Sacrae I , 28 six- to seven-part moths from the Cantiones Sacrae I collection, René Michael Röder, Capella Daleminzia, Label Querstand, 2015
Cantiones Sacrae I , 15 eight- to thirteen-part motets from the Cantiones Sacrae I collection, René Michael Röder, Capella Daleminzia, Label Querstand, 2015
Cantiones Sacrae II , 19 six- and five seven-part moths from the Cantiones Sacrae II, René Michael Röder, Capella Daleminzia, Label Querstand, 2016

literature

Christoph Albrecht: Vulpius (fox), Melchior. In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? 2nd revised and updated edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50323-7 , pp. 334–336 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Walter Blankenburg: Vulpius, Melchior. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Werner Braun: Vulpius, Melchior. 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 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht : Melchior Vulpius. Dissertation, University of Jena 1949, DNB 480216509 .
Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht: The life of Melchior Vulpius. In: Festschrift Max Schneider for the eightieth birthday. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1955, OCLC 1661181 , pp. 87-104.
Robert Eitner : Vulpius, Melchior . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 388 f.
Maren Goltz, Kai Marius Schabram (ed.): Melchior Vulpius. Contributions to life, work and impact (= Forum Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik. 10). ortus musikverlag, Beeskow 2018, ISBN 978-3-937788-55-5 .

Web links

Works by and about Melchior Vulpius in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Melchior Vulpius in the German Digital Library
Sheet music and audio files by Melchior Vulpius in the International Music Score Library Project
Publications by and about Melchior Vulpius in VD 17 .
Motets (Free Notes)

Individual evidence

↑ According to other sources (e.g. Dietrich Schuberth , Art. Kirchenmusik, in: TRE 18 (1984), p. 656) he was born around 1560.
↑ Christoph Albrecht considers 1560 to be unlikely, but also describes 1570 as hypothetical. Christoph Albrecht: Vulpius (fox), Melchior. In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? 2nd reviewed and updated edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50323-7 , p. 335 ( limited preview in Google book search).
^ Fritz Reckow: Vulpius, Melchior. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 14 (Vollerthun - Zyganow). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1968, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 45–49 (= Digital Library Volume 60, pp. 79116–79126)
^ At Martin Wittel, Erfurt 1610 ( digitized in the Google book search)
↑ on the kirken.no website, accessed on April 13, 2019
^ Christoph Albrecht: Vulpius (Fuchs), Melchior. In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? 2nd reviewed and updated edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50323-7 , pp. 334–336 ( limited preview in Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Vulpius, Melchior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fox, Melchior (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German cantor and church composer
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1570
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wasungen
DATE OF DEATH	buried August 7, 1615
Place of death	Weimar

[1] According to other sources (e.g. Dietrich Schuberth , Art. Kirchenmusik, in: TRE 18 (1984), p. 656) he was born around 1560.

[Herbst_335-2] Christoph Albrecht considers 1560 to be unlikely, but also describes 1570 as hypothetical. Christoph Albrecht: Vulpius (fox), Melchior. In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? 2nd reviewed and updated edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50323-7 , p. 335 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[3] Fritz Reckow: Vulpius, Melchior. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 14 (Vollerthun - Zyganow). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1968, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 45–49 (= Digital Library Volume 60, pp. 79116–79126)

[4] At Martin Wittel, Erfurt 1610 ( digitized in the Google book search)

[5] the kirken.no website, accessed on April 13, 2019

[Herbst_334-6] Christoph Albrecht: Vulpius (Fuchs), Melchior. In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? 2nd reviewed and updated edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50323-7 , pp. 334–336 ( limited preview in Google book search).