Nikolaus Beuttner

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Nikolaus Beuttner, portrait in the rectory of Sankt Lorenzen

Nikolaus Beuttner (* before 1592 in Gerolzhofen , † after 1610 in Sankt Lorenzen im Mürz Valley ) was a German teacher and church clerk who became famous as the editor of a Catholic hymn book.

Life

Catholisch Gesang-Buch , title page of the first edition 1602
Catholisches Gesang-Buch , title page of the edition of 1718

According to his own statements, Nikolaus Beuttner came from Gerolzhofen in Franconia . His professional positions as schoolmaster and Catholic cantor were in Styria, which was still predominantly Protestant around 1600 . Like many other pioneers of the Counter Reformation , he was recruited by the Jesuits to go to Styria and work there in the Catholic sense. In 1592/1593 he married the daughter of Mert Krhiechpaumb in Mürzzuschlag . From 1594 to 1602 he is proven in St. Lorenzen im Mürz Valley as a schoolmaster and church servant.

In 1602 Georg Widmanstetter in Graz printed the Catholische Gesang-Buch published by Beuttner , which is one of the most important hymn collections before David Gregor Corner's Great Catholisch Gesangbuch (1625). In 1609 Beuttner published a revised edition, and by 1718 at least twelve editions had appeared. The collection is more folk liturgical than catechetical and is aimed less at the singing community than at cantors and clergymen. It consists predominantly of popular, largely pre-Reformation "Kirchfahrter-Rueff" (ie pilgrimage songs ; "Ruf" denotes a poetic form of litany - like two-line lines rich in stanzas in the late Middle Ages ). Beuttner also took inspiration from the edification book Das Güldene Hauskleinot (1594) by David Mörlin (around 1565 - after 1608). Some songs from Beuttner's collection are still popular today, including

Works

  • Catholic chant book. Graz 1602 (digitized version of the 1718 edition: urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10922465-1 ).
    • Reprint: Walther Lipphardt (Ed.): Catholisch Gesang-Buch: Darinnen vil prettier / newe / vnd zuuor never seen in print […] By Nicolaum Beuttner. Academic Printing and Publishing Institute, Graz 1968, OCLC 174200723 .

literature

  • Rudolf Flotzinger : Beuttner (Peittner and the like), Nikolaus. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
  • Jutta Franke: Beuttner, Nikolaus. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 70 ( digitized version ).
  • Philipp Harnoncourt : The hymn book of Nicolaus Beuttner (Graz 1602) on the background of the religious-historical situation in Styria. In: Musik und Altar , 22 (1970), ZDB -ID 123518-7 , pp. 116-120.
  • Leopold Kretzenbacher: Nikolaus Beuttner from Gerolzhofen in Franconia, a Franconian schoolmaster life for Styria. In: Contributions to the history of Styria and Carinthia. Dedicated to Ferdinand Tremel at the age of 60. = Journal of the Historisches Verein für Steiermark, 53 (1962), ISSN  0437-5890 , pp. 101–113.
  • Walther Lipphardt: The oldest edition of Beuttner's Gesangbuch, Graz 1602. In: Yearbook for Liturgy and Hymnology 7 (1962), pp. 134–149 and 8 (1963), pp. 143–152.
  • Karl Severin Meister: The Catholic German hymn in its ways of singing: from the earliest times to the end of the seventeenth century. Volume 1. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1862, p. 62 f. ( Digitized in the Google book search).
  • Wolfgang Suppan : Nicolaus Beuttners Gesangbuch, Graz 1602, and the oral tradition. In: Alexander Novotny, Berthold Suttner (ed.): Inner Austria 1564–1619. Catalog for the exhibition “Graz als Residenz” (= Joannea. 3). Styria, Graz 1967, DNB 98970775X , pp. 261-295.
  • Georg Westermayer :  Beuttner, Nikolaus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 595.

Web links

Commons : Nikolaus Beuttner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold Schmidt: History of Austrian Folklore. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1951, p. 27.
  2. ^ Johann Trummer: Music in Styrian Monasteries between 1300 and 1600. In: Anton Schwob, Karin Kranich-Hofbauer (Ed.): Cistercian Writing in the Middle Ages - The Scriptorium of the Reiner Monks: Contributions to the International Conference in the Cistercian Monastery of Rein, May 2003. Peter Lang, Bern etc. 2005, ISBN 3-03910-416-0 , p. 364 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ^ Helmut W. Lang: The book printers of the 15th to 17th centuries in Austria: with a bibliography on the history of Austrian book printing up to 1700 (= Bibliotheca bibliographica Aureliana. Volume 42). Koerner, Baden-Baden 1972, ISBN 3-87320-042-2 , p. 15 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ^ Andrea Neuhaus: Baroque period (17th and 18th centuries). In: Dominik Fugger, Andreas Scheidgen (ed.): History of the Catholic hymn book (= Mainzer hymnological studies. Volume 21). Francke, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8265-8 , pp. 11–20, here p. 15 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ^ Sepp Walter: Styrian customs during the year . Association Schloß Trautenfels, Trautenfels 1997, ISBN 3-900493-45-6 , p. 156 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  6. ↑ Lukas Richter : The folk song in the 17th century. In: Albrecht Classen, Lukas Richter: Song and songbook in the early modern times (= folk song studies. Volume 10). Waxmann, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-8309-2257-5 , pp. 9–130, here pp. 33–40 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  7. ↑ Michael Fischer: A hunter wants to hunt, probably in heaven's throne (2007). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
personal data
SURNAME Beuttner, Nikolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beuttner, Nicolaus; Peittner, Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, church servant and editor of a Catholic hymn book
DATE OF BIRTH before 1592
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerolzhofen
DATE OF DEATH after 1610
Place of death Sankt Lorenzen in Mürz Valley