Samuel Jacobi

Signum Samuel Jacobis

Samuel Jacobi (* 1652 in Großgrabe ( Lausitz ); † July 26, 1721 in Grimma ) was a German cantor and composer .

Life

View of the Princely School St. Augustin in Grimma in the 17th century.

Samuel Jacobi ended after completion of the Dresdner Kreuzschule the Leipzig University and was from 1680 Kantor at the prince school Grimma . He held this office until his death. Its main importance lies less in his compositions than in the compilation of the so-called "Jacobi Collection", which is considered to be one of the most important collections of baroque church music in Germany.

His sons were the composer Christian August Jacobi , the Wittenberg music director (since 1712) and organist of the local castle church Samuel Franz (also Franciscus) Jacobi (* 1682; † after 1729) and Gottlieb Sigmund Jacobi (* before 1700; † 1726).

Jacobi Collection

During his more than 40 years as a cantor in Grimma, Samuel Jacobi put together an extensive collection of mostly his own copies of baroque church music. The music was used for teaching purposes, school celebrations and for the musical organization of church services in the city of Grimma. Since Grimma is located between the two music centers at that time, Dresden and Leipzig , both works by Italian masters and music by the Dresden court orchestra , all of whose sheet music was in 1760 during the Seven Years' War after Prussian shelling in the so-called Prinzenpalais (which also houses the Dresden court sheet music archive found) were a victim of the flames.

Dresden provenance are the works by Vincenzo Albrici , Carlo Pallavicino , Marco Giuseppe Peranda , copied and mostly performed by Jacobi , a number of anonymous compositions, but also individual works of more distant origin, which can only have reached Grimma via the Dresden court orchestra - quite significant Compositions by Antonio Bertali , Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber , Giacomo Carissimi , Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and others. It stands to reason that works by composers at other central German courts also came to Grimma via the Dresden court music, such as those by Johann Beer , Johann Philipp Krieger or Philipp Heinrich Erlebach .

The Leipziger Musikpflege originates from numerous compositions handed down in Grimma by Christian Ludwig Boxberg , Johann David Heinichen - ten of these church cantatas with German text from his early days - Esaias Hickmann the knotter student, Sebastian Knüpfer himself, Adam Krieger , Johann Kuhnau , Johann Schelle , Daniel Vetter, etc. Cantatas by Friedrich Wilhelm Zachows refer to Halle .

Copies of some of the works by Georg Philipp Telemann are also in the Jacobi Collection, as are the compositions by his son Christian August Jacobi.

After Jacobi's death, the collection was expanded to include additional works, transferred to the Saxon State Library in Dresden in the 1960s and cataloged in 2009 as "Music Manuscripts of the Princely School Grimma".

Works

• Historia Resurrectionis (1686, V (6), orch, bc)
• Oratorio "Historia of the Nativity"
• Chorale: Christ gives life through death
• Choral: The Canaanite Woman (Reminiscere)
• Chorale: The one with few fish (Laetare)
• Chorale: The captain believes
• Choral: Do you have great good (proverbial text on the Gospel for the 1st Sunday after Trinity)
• Choral: Before all guests Christ
• Chorale: Simeon praises before his death

literature

• Wolf Hobohm : Title Structure, Function and Significance of the German Protestant Cantorate in the 16th to 18th Century: Report on the scientific colloquium on November 2nd, 1991 in Magdeburg. - Oschersleben: Ziethen, 1997.
• Wolfram Steude : Cantor council, cantors and music repertoire of the Princely School in Grimma. In: SAPERE AUDE, Grimma December 1995 issue 41.
• Brit Reipsch, Carsten Lange: Composers in the field of tension between courtly and urban musical culture, Georg Olms, Hildesheim, 2014.
• L. Otto Kade : The musical treasures of the Landesschule zu Grimma . In: Serapeum . tape 16 , no. 20 , 1855, p. 305-313; 321-325 ( digizeitschriften.de ).
• Friedhelm Krummacher : To the Jacobi collection of the former Princely School Grimma . In: The music research . tape 16 , no. 4 , 1963, pp. 324-347 , JSTOR : 41115583 .
• Andrea Hartmann: Catalog of the music manuscripts of the Princely School Grimma . Dresden 2009, p. 788 , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa-24844 .

Web links

• Works by and about Samuel Jacobi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Samuel Jacobi  in the German Digital Library
• Sheet music and audio files by Samuel Jacobi in the International Music Score Library Project