Samuel Franck

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Samuel Franck (* 1633 or 1634 in Stettin ; † February 4, 1679 in Lübeck ) was a German church musician.

Life

Franck came from Szczecin. In 1651 he was a student of the Princely Pedagogy . It is possible that he is identical with that Samuel Franck from Stettin, the right handicap (law student), who is documented as a respondent and author of occasional publications in Königsberg (Prussia) in the mid-1650s .

Franck's first surviving composition is a praising honor poem for Otto Großkreutz's master's degree at the University of Rostock in 1659.

On February 19, 1663, he succeeded Martin Linke, who died on December 31, 1662, as the cantor at the Katharineum in Lübeck . In the same year he married Auguste Sophie, b. Tunder (* 1644), the older daughter of the organist at the Marienkirche Franz Tunder . As a cantor at the Katharineum, he received 300 marks Lübsch and free accommodation. The cantor was third in the school's ranking after the rector and sub-rector . He was responsible for Latin lessons in tertia and secondary as well as music lessons and music practice throughout the school. Linked to this was the position as cantor at St. Mary's Church . Here he was responsible for the music on the choir . On ordinary Sundays the student choir sang in unison from the rood screen, and figural music was performed on festive days . In 1664 Franck made sure that the head of the church "to help the current age of music", which required continuo accompaniment , bought a positive organ with five voices for the rood screen. Franck was able to fall back on a rich choir library built up by his predecessor, the considerable remains of which (2,000 works in 69 part books) the city of Lübeck gave as a diplomatic gesture during the Vienna Congress to Archduke Rudolf , who passed them on to the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna . Due to the division of tasks between cantor and organist , Franck was in the shadow of the organist as a musician, first his father-in-law Franz Tunder, then his brother-in-law Dieterich Buxtehude , who had held the much better-paid position of organist and master craftsman at St. Marien since 1668 and was responsible for music on the organ , which could also be figural music with instruments and a small choir. The cantor provided the choristers for the evening music organized by the organist . Four times a year Franck gave quarterly music with the choir in the other main churches.

If Franck contributed his own compositions, nothing has been preserved. One of his successors, Caspar Ruetz, reports that most of his predecessors' manuscripts have now been scrapped or used to light a fire.

Works

  • Praising honor poem | The | Ehrenvesten / Vorachtbiegen and Wolgelahrten | Mr. OTTO Großkreutzen / | of world wisdom / | As the same / | in the 1659th year the 25th day of the wine month | from the highly praised Philosophical Faculty in Rostock | the Magister Tittel | was added / | Made in guilty honor | and brought in a five-part music | from | Samuel Francken / | Szczecinians. Rostock 1659
  • Schüldiger Nach-Ruhm / Dem ... Hn. Menoni Hannekenio, philosopher: Mag: & SS. Th. Candidato: When, in the year of Christ 1673, he ended his temporal life on Nov. 1 at 5 o'clock in the morning / and on the 6th afterwards ... his rest Chamber of St. Mary's ... was brought in / His esteemed dear friends willingly set up by Samuel Francken / Sch: Cant :. Lübeck: Hunter 1673 ( digitized , Berlin State Library )

literature

  • Carl Stiehl : Lübeckisches Tonkünstlerlexikon. Leipzig: Hesse 1887 ( digitized version ), p. 7
  • Kerala J. Snyder: Partners in Music-making: Organist and Cantor in 17th-century Lübeck. In: The Organist as Scholar: Essays in Memory of Russell Saunders. Edited by Kerala J. Snyder. Stuyvesant NY: Pendragon Press, 1994, pp. 233-255

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exercitationum Publicarum In Illustri Paedagogio Stetinensi, Disputationum nempe, Declamationum, ... elapso semestri aestivo anni 1651. adornatarum Designatio. Stettin 1651 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Entry in VD17
  3. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ^ Entry in the database of occasional music from the Baltic Sea region from the 16th to the 18th century , accessed on April 22, 2019
  5. ↑ Ernst Deecke : The Catharineum zu Lübeck before 1800 a jubilation in connection with the special print on the history of our school house, von Rodhen 'sche Buchhandlung, Lübeck 1843, p. 54
  6. ↑ Kerala J. Snyder : Dieterich Buxtehude. Life, work, performance practice. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2007 ISBN 978-3-7618-1836-7 , p. 120
  7. ^ Wilhelm Stahl : Franz Tunder and Dietrich Buxtehude. Leipzig: Ms. Kistner & CFW Siegel 1926 ( digitized version ), p. 20
  8. ^ A Brief History of the St. Mary's Choir Library ; Database
  9. ↑ Caspar Ruetz: Refuted prejudices about the effect of today's church music. Rostock and Wismar 1753, p. 112
personal data
SURNAME Franck, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1633 or 1634
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1679
Place of death Lübeck