Nicolaus Adam Strungk

Nicolaus Adam Strungk (baptized November 15, 1640 in Braunschweig ; † September 23, 1700 in Dresden ) was a German composer and violinist of the Baroque period .

Life

Manuscript of Laudate Pueri

Nicolaus Adam Strungk was the son of the organist and composer Delphin Strungk . Nicolaus Adam, who already received organ lessons from his father, studied at the University of Helmstedt . Later he learned violin with Nathanael Schnittelbach until 1660 . As a violinist, Strungk performed before the Duke of Wolfenbüttel and before Emperor Leopold I in Vienna as a violin and piano player. In 1665 he joined Johann Friedrich in Hanover as a chamber musician . The poet Christine Dorothea Lachs , born in 1672, was his daughter.

In 1679 Strungk became director of the Hamburg council music. In 1688, he succeeded Christian Ritter as Vice Kapellmeister and chamber organist in Dresden. In 1693 he succeeded Christoph Bernhard as court conductor. He left this post in 1696 to eventually become director of the Leipzig opera house . Strungk, who suffered from financial difficulties all his life, died a few years later "of a hot fever".

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Strungk composed several operas for Hamburg and Leipzig. Piano and organ works in particular have survived as instrumental music. Some sacred cantatas have also been preserved. Operas (selection):

• The blissfully rising Sejanus (1678)
• The unfortunate fall of Sejanus (1678)
• Loving Esther, exalted by virtue and beauty (1680)
• David or the royal slave (1680)
• The three daughters of Cekrop (1680)
• Alceste (Hamburg, 1680) (Strungk's authorship uncertain, possibly by Johann Wolfgang Franck )
• Theseus (1683)
• Semiramis (1683)
• Florette (1683)
• Nero (Leipzig, 1693)
• Jupiter and Alcmena (Leipzig, 1696)
• Phocas (Leipzig, 1696)
• Pyrrhus and Demetrius (Leipzig, 1696)
• Orion (Leipzig, 1697)
• Scipio and Hannibal (Leipzig, 1698)
• Ixion (Leipzig, 1699)
• Agrippina (Leipzig, 1699)
• Erechtheus (Leipzig, 1700)

literature

• Fritz Berend: Nicolaus Adam Strungk. 1640-1700. His life and his works. With contributions on the history of music and theater in Celle, Hanover and Leipzig. Munich 1913, Freiburg 1915.
• Max Seiffert :  Strunck, Nicolaus Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 667-669.
• Pieter Dirksen : On the sacred vocal music of Nicolaus Adam Struncks. In: Schütz yearbook. 31 (2009), pp. 61-81.

Web links

• Works by and about Nicolaus Adam Strungk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sheet music and audio files by Nicolaus Adam Strungk in the International Music Score Library Project
• List of stage works by Nicolaus Adam Strungk based on the MGG at Operone