Michael Christoph Brandenburg

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Michael Christoph Brandenburg (baptized September 20, 1694 in Boizenburg ; † May 12, 1766 ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, poet and librettist.

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Brandenburg came from a Mecklenburg pastor family. Both his grandfather Michael Brandenburg (1622–1693) and his father Balthasar Christian Brandenburg (1662–1701) were pastors in Boizenburg. Michael Christoph Brandenburg first attended the city school in Boizenburg and then the Johanneum Lüneburg . At Easter 1714 he enrolled at the University of Rostock . In 1718 he studied at the University of Leipzig . Since that time he was friends with Johann Christian Günther . Even as a student, Brandenburg emerged as the author of occasional pamphlets on weddings, births and funerals. In 1716, his oratorio The Controversial and Victory Gideon became the text of the Lübeck evening music , followed by The unfortunate overcomer Jephtha the following year. Later evening music also used Libretti from Brandenburg with Belshazz , as an example of the Divine Penal Courts (1739), The Sin and Penance of David (1742) and The Victory of Faith (1745) . His Abendmusik text from 1716 is the first to be personalized with an author's abbreviation; In his oratorio texts as a whole he shows himself to be a “particularly self-confident and modern poet” who refrains from reproducing Bible verses in favor of his own poetry. Between 1723 and 1725 Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) set to music an incomplete year of cantatas with his poems (so-called "Brandenburg vintage"), of which 21 compositions have been preserved. In these cantata texts, too, he does not include biblical dicta or chorale stanzas, but restricts himself to self-composed arias and recitatives.

From 1722 he worked as a pastor in Sterley , from 1735 in Grünau (today Groß Grönau ) south of Lübeck. In 1744 he was appointed assessor of the consistory for the Duchy of Lauenburg . From 1753 until his death he was a pastor in Sandesneben .

From 1724 he worked for the magazine Der Patriot of the German practicing society for the maintenance of the German language and literature founded by Barthold Heinrich Brockes , Johann Ulrich von König , Michael Richey and Johann Albert Fabricius in 1715 in Hamburg . In 1744 he became an honorary member of the German Society in Göttingen .

Christian Friedrich Weichmann recorded 24 poems by Brandenburg from his Poetry of Lower Saxony , the 5th volume of which is dedicated to Brandenburg in 1727.

Works

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1311 .
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover. Volume 1. Schünemann, Bremen 1823, p. 245 ( digitized version ).
  • Sandra Kersten: The friendship poems and letters of Johann Christian Günther. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86596-052-9 , p. 137 (also Diss. TU Chemnitz 2005).
  • Stephan Sehlke: Das Geistige Boizenburg: Education and the educated in and from the Boizenburg area from the 13th century to 1945. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8448-0423-2 , p. 127.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Kersten (lit.)
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Irmgard Scheitler: German-language oratorio libretti (= contributions to the history of church music. 12). Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-72955-1 , p. 287 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ See Christoph Perels, Jürgen Rathje, Christian Friedrich Weichmann, Jürgen Stenzel: CF Weichmanns Poesie der Nieder-Sachsen (= repertories for research into the early modern times. 7). Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 1983, ISBN 3-88373-034-3 , p. 59 ff.
  5. ↑ digitized version
personal data
SURNAME Brandenburg, Michael Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, poet and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH baptized September 20, 1694
PLACE OF BIRTH Boizenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1766