Michael Jakobi

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Michael Jakobi , also Michael Jacobi (* 1618 in Sanne ; † October 19, 1663 in Lüneburg ) was a German cantor and church musician who is mainly known for his musical collaboration with Johann Rist (1607–1667).

Life

Michael Jakobi was born in 1618 in the village of Sanne near Arendsee in the Mark Brandenburg region. His father was a Lutheran pastor, his mother a pastor's daughter. He went to Stockholm for three years before enrolling in Strasbourg as a law student in 1641 . Two years later he began a travel life that took him through France, Italy (Venice, primarily a soldier (cavalry) in Venice's war against the Papal States, as well as Milan, Padua and Bologna), the Netherlands and Denmark.

In 1647 at the latest he began working with the Hamburg pastor Johann Rist, who was only eleven years his senior, and who once called him his "dear friend, loved in his place as a son"; for his poetic works he contributed simple songs. On Rist's recommendation, he was appointed city cantor in Kiel in 1648 . There he married the merchant's daughter Katharina Holsten on September 16, 1650; eight children were born to the couple in the period that followed.

A great-great-nephew was the Königsberg banker and Kant friend Johann Conrad Jacobi (1717–1774).

In 1651 Jakobi became - again on the recommendation of Rist - cantor at St. Johannis in Lüneburg. He held this office until his death. In the twelve years of its effectiveness there, the vocal and instrumental school and church music, which had been depressed due to the war , was reorganized . For the first time in Lüneburg, the performance of passion oratorios in the Good Friday service is attested. In keeping with the custom of the time, the figural music he performed presumably came mainly from his pen; However, only the songs for Rist have survived.

Works

Title page to Das Friedejauchzende Teutschland , 1653
  • Johann Rist, Michael Jakobi: Das Friedewünschende Teutschland , Hamburg 1649
  • Johann Rist, Michael Jakobi: Das Friedejauchzende Teutschland / Which / Mediating a new drama / partly in unbound / partly in bound speech and graceful songs: / With new / by Mr. Michael Jakobi / in the praiseworthy city of Lüneburg a cantore and excellent music - and lovely set melodies / ... introduces Johann Rist. Nürnberg, Wolfgang Endter, 1653 ( Google digitized version , accessed on July 18, 2017)
  • Johann Rist, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Michael Jakobi: Catechism devotions (1656)
  • Johann Rist, Michael Jakobi: Neüe Musikalische Kreutz- Consolation- Praise- and DankSchuhle, where there are different instructional and consoling songs, to be used in many ways, misery and repugnance, which larger parts, on known, and in the Evangelical Churches common , but all with each other, in a very new way, from the ... Musico, Mr. Michael Jakobi ... so lovingly as artificially set melodies can be played and sung. Lüneburg, Verlag Johann & Heinrich Stern, 1659 ( Google digitized version , accessed on July 18, 2017)

Jakobi wrote his melodies according to Rist's guidelines, with which Rist wanted to ensure that the melodies were also subordinated to his ideal of simplicity and comprehensibility. Rist had repeatedly taken a stand against the virtuoso Italian cantata style. Rist wrote in the foreword of the 'Kreutz -... Schuhle': 'But he got it with this work / not only according to my / but also according to many art connoisseurs sense and opinion / was right and well met / in which he / the sad one Lamentations with a slow one / the powerful consolation songs with a somewhat faster pace / and the joyful thanksgiving songs with a fresh beat has set / that they come very agile to such / in all ages / so / that the lamentations bring out tears / the consolation songs that worried Hertz Strengthen miraculously / and the songs of praise and gratitude fill the quenched soul with a strange / yes very heavenly and divine joy! ' This system cannot be clearly transferred ... to Jakobi's compositions in the 'Catechism Devotions'. Nevertheless, the time signatures described by Rist also form the basis here! Rist expressly emphasizes, however, that 'Jakobi is quite capable of writing "artful, colorful and strange-sounding melodies", but that he has obeyed his "earnest desire".'

In the MGG also proof of the print editions and the 'independent publications' (in some cases only the text is preserved)

His melody to Rist's 'Safe Germany, you are asleep ' from The Peace-Desiring Germany gained a certain fame in the period after the First World War up to the time of National Socialism .

literature

Web links

Commons : Michael Jakobi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaiser Karl's IV Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg based on the handwritten sources edited by E. Fidicin, Berlin 1856 (Google digitized version )
  2. ^ Announcements of the Society for Kiel City History, issues 53-56, 1958 (Google excerpt)
  3. ↑ in the 'Glückwünschenden EhrenLied' from 1651 [1] p. 461.
  4. ↑ Oliver Huck in: Johann Rist, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Michael Jacobi: Katechismus-Andachten (1656) (Google digitized version (excerpts))
  5. ^ Johann Rist, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Michael Jacobi: Katechismus-Andachten (1656), p. 540 (Google digitized version (excerpts))
  6. ↑ Robert Eitner: Monthly Issues for Music History, Volume 4 (Annemarie Schnase-Reprint Department, 1960) (Google excerpts)
  7. ↑ Critical Edition and Commentary Ed. Niemeyer De Gruyter Ed .: Johann Anselm Steiger ( [2] accessed on July 10, 2017)
  8. ↑ a b Music in the past and present (MGG): Jacobi, Michael; Vol. 06, p. 1611 (c) Bärenreiter-Verlag 1986
  9. ↑ See Ernst Sommer: Who created the song “Safe Germany, are you still sleeping”? in: Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie 2 (1956), pp. 127–130 ( digitized at JSTOR )
  10. ↑ cf. Proof of publication at deutscheslied.com
  11. ↑ melody , bass , text ; see. Martial musical arrangement for male choir by W. Lott, Leipzig 1938 [3] on YouTube
personal data
SURNAME Jakobi, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobi, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cantor and church musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1618
PLACE OF BIRTH Sanne
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1663
Place of death Luneburg