New Leipzig hymnal

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The Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch is a choral hymn book that Gottfried Vopelius , teacher and cantor at St. Nikolai in Leipzig , published in 1682. The original title is:

"New Leipzig hymn book, composed of the most beautiful and best songs, in which Not only Blessed Herr D. Lutheri and others agree with God's word and unchanged Augsburg Confession [...] chants, Latin hymns and psalms, with 4., 5 to 6. voices, the melodies of which are partly compiled from Johann Herman Scheins Cantional and other good Autoribus, but partly composed by myself; But also the Passion according to the holy Evangelists Matthæo and Johanne, the Resurrection, the Missa, Praefationes, Responsoria and Collecten, on the usual high Sundays and feast days, the Magnificat after the 8th Tonis, Te Deum laudamus, Symbolum Nicænum, & c. choraliter [...] to find. "

content

The original edition of the Neu Leipziger Hymnal contains a total of 432 songs and chants on 1104 pages:

  • 113 texts without notes
  • 55 unanimous songs
  • around 100 Latin chants
  • more than 160 mostly four-, but also five- and six-part song movements.

Three melodies and three choral movements are marked as Vopelius' own compositions. Other composers named are Erhard Bodenschatz (2 works), Christoph Sebastian Buchner (1), Joachim a Burck (2), Wolfgang Carl Briegel (1), Johann Crüger (9), Christian Daum (1), Johann Christoph Demantius (2 ), Melchior Franck (3), Bartholomäus Gesius (1), Andreas Hammerschmidt (7), Jakob Handl (1), Sebastian Knüpfer (1), Tobias Michael (1), Chr.Peter (1), Johann Hermann Schein (98 ), Johann Schelle (1), Johann Schop (3) and Heinrich Schütz (1). The approximately 30 anonymous sentences are considered works by Vopelius.

Georg Möbius , professor of theology at Leipzig University, wrote the explanatory texts .

meaning

The New Leipzig hymnbook was not only the basis for maintaining Leipzig church music well into the 18th century, but also influenced North and Central German hymnbook editions for decades. It is a prime source for the practice of worship in Leipzig in the age of Lutheran orthodoxy . His influence on the hymn-related and Latin-language works of Johann Sebastian Bach is of great importance .

literature

  • Jürgen Grimm: The new Leipzig hymn book of Gottfried Vopelius, Leipzig, 1682; Studies to clarify its historical position , Berlin (Merseburger) 1969

Web links

Commons : Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digitization of the Munich digitization center
  2. ↑ a b c Article Vopelius, Gottfried ( Saxon Biography )
  3. ↑ Robert Eitner:  Vopelius, Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 298 f.