Salomon Franck

Salomon Franck , also Salomo Franck (* in March 1659 in Weimar ; buried on June 14, 1725 there ), was a German lawyer and poet . Today he is best known for the fact that his texts form the basis of most of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas in his Weimar period.

Life

Franck studied law and presumably also theology in Jena and then worked in Zwickau , Arnstadt and Jena before becoming (senior) consistorial secretary in Weimar in 1701. He was responsible for the ducal library and the coin cabinet .

From 1694 at the latest he composed cantata texts for the Weimar court, which initially consisted of biblical words and verse poems , later from 1710, under the influence of Erdmann Neumeister, took over the greater freedom of non-strophic madrigal poetry. Many of his secular congratulatory poems for the Weimar Princely House are also in cantatas. There are also other secular cantatas of various kinds.

His grave is on the Jacobsfriedhof Weimar .

Works

• Madrigal lust for souls about the sacred suffering of our Savior (1697)
• Cantata year for the church year 1714/1715: Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer
• Year of cantatas for the church year 1715/1716: Evangelische Seelen-Lust
• Year of cantatas for the church year 1716/1717: Evangelical Sunday and feast day devotions

Franck's texts set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach

From Evangelical Devotional Offering (1715)

• Prepare the way, prepare the way! ( BWV 132)
• Step on the path of faith (BWV 152)
• My God, how long, oh long? (BWV 155)
• Everything only according to God's will (BWV 72)
• Everything born of God (BWV 80a)
• Heaven laughs (BWV 31)
• O holy spirit and water bath (BWV 165)
• Merciful Heart of Eternal Love (BWV 185)
• Do the bill! Thunder Word (BWV 168)
• You who call yourselves from Christ (BWV 164)
• Come on, you sweet hour of death (BWV 161)
• Oh! I see now that I am going to the wedding (BWV 162)
• Only to each his own (BWV 163)

From Protestant Sundays and Feast Day Devotions (1717)

• Watch! pray! pray! watch! (BWV 70a)
• Don't get angry, oh soul (BWV 186a)
• Heart and mouth and deed and life (BWV 147a)

Other texts by Franck

• King of Heaven, be welcome (BWV 182)
• Crying, lamenting, worrying, apprehension (BWV 12)
• Resound, you songs, resound, you strings! (BWV 172)
• What I like is only the lively hunt (BWV 208)

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Franck, Solomon. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 81-82.
• Carl Bertheau :  Franck, Solomon . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 213 f.
• Alfred Dürr : The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. dtv / Bärenreiter, Munich / Kassel, 6th edition, 1995.
• Lothar Hoffmann inheritance law:  Franck, Salomo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 320 ( digitized version ).
• Christoph Wolff (Ed.): The world of Bach cantatas. Metzler / Bärenreiter, Stuttgart / Kassel, 3 volumes special edition 2006, ISBN 3-476-02127-0 .

Web links

• Works by and about Salomon Franck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Salomon Franck  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by and about Salomon Franck in VD 17 .