Samuel Voelckel

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Samuel Voelckel , also Samuel Völckel (* 1564 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; buried on April 18, 1621 in Bayreuth ) was a German singer, instrumentalist , composer and for many years Kapellmeister of Margrave Christian von Bayreuth .

Life

There are no sources about its origin. Whether his place of birth Königsberg is in Prussia or Franconia is being discussed, but the addition Regiom is likely. Bor. - one follows Robert Eitner - after his name in the dedication from 1613 to the Bayreuth Margrave Christian to Koenigsberg in Prussia ( Borussia ). It is not known where he received his musical training. From 1583 to 1586 he is recorded as a musician (instrumentalist) of the margravial court orchestra Ansbach . Since this chapel was stationed from 1578 to 1586 under the Ansbach margrave Georg Friedrich I in Königsberg / Prussia, this also speaks for Prussia as his home, because, according to Günther Schmidt, he was the chapel at a young age (19 years) there in 1583 joined. In 1587, after moving the chapel to Ansbach, he married. In 1593 his son Christoph Theodorus was baptized, godfather is Teodoro Riccio , the Ansbach conductor. In 1601 Voelckel is called "Vicekapellmeister" when a daughter is baptized and appears for the last time in 1602 in the Ansbach church book.

In the previous years between 1591 and around 1600 Voelckels noticed frequent changes of location: in 1591 Völckel was a musician in the court orchestra of the Landgrave of Hesse in Marburg, from 1593 to 1594 he was a member of the ducal Brunswick court orchestra in Wolfenbüttel . He then worked in the court chapel of Landgrave Moritz in Kassel until 1596 . In 1596 he moved to Marburg as a musician in the court orchestra of Ludwig IV. His appointment took place on August 1, 1596 and a short time later he was called the court conductor. Then he decided to become a member of the court orchestra of the Saxon Elector Johann Georg in Dresden . Vöelckel's works dedicated to the elector in 1607 and 1608 seem to confirm this.

In 1604 he probably worked as a violinist - this is suggested by an archival document without naming his name - together with the royal court organist Johann Staden at the wedding celebrations of Margrave Christian from Bayreuth. There is no source as to whether he has already started his service in Bayreuth. The court moved from Plassenburg near Kulmbach to Bayreuth in 1604 , but had to be moved back to Plassenburg several times after the city fire in 1605 and later. In 1612 a daughter of Voelckel married Hieronymus Schaffhirt, Bayreuth's town church organist. In 1613, Capellmeister Voelckel was registered in the Nuremberg choir printing plant in Bayreuth dedicated to his employer. On April 18, 1621, Voelckel was buried in Bayreuth , according to the town church's death register 1619–1628 ; the entry Kapellmeister 57 year gives his (determined) year of birth 1564. Samuel Voelckel, the first Bayreuth Kapellmeister of the margravial court orchestra, died. It is not known whether his death was related to the second big Bayreuth city fire in the same year 1621.

family

His son Christian Theodor Völckel was baptized on July 18, 1593 in Ansbach. The godparents were Duke Christian and the conductor Theodor Riccius . Christian Theodor worked as an instrumentist in Darmstadt , where he became Kapellmeister in 1635. He worked in the same position from 1640 until his death on March 10, 1644 in Frankfurt am Main . He composed several songs and a concert. His son Ernst Martin was also a musician and composer.
The daughter Catharina Barbara Völckel married the court organist Hieronymus (III) Schaffhirt in the Bayreuth city church on April 14, 1612, baptized on May 7, 1589 in Lohmen , son of the papermaker of the same name there and grandson of Hieronymus Schaffhirt .
As more children of the 1612 and 1614 called Samuel include Voelckel (Volckelius), Kantor to Ortisei in Halle , and his brother Fabian Lorenz Voelckel (Voelckel), the 1623 also a court musician in Bayreuth was.

Works

  • Exaudiat te Dominus , motet for eight voices, 1607, Dresden. Solace song for Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, on the death of his wife
  • To please the noble pasture here I diss liedlein with schalle , Jägerliedlein, 1608, Dresden. Dedicated to Elector Johann Georg
  • Newe teutsche welt = | liche chants / with four and five | Voices / auff Gallillions / Täntz / vnnd Musicalische | art / besides cuorranten vnd galliards without text / to | Joyfulness composed and finished in print | By | Samuel Völckeln / Princely Brandenburg | Capelnmeistern / above the mountains. | CANTUS. | Nuremberg / Moved by Georg Leopold Fuhrmann. | M. DC. XIII . (1613) Dedicated to Margrave Christian von Bayreuth
  • Wedding music 1613, printed in Leipzig (see RISM OPAC)
  • Two eight-part motets Gaudete, filiae Hierusalem and Domine, probasti me (dated April 30, 1617). Handwritten originals in anthology, dedicated to Duke Johann Casimir von Coburg : Coburg State Archives LA A 2243.

literature

  • Eitner / ADB
  • Frank / Altmann (Hrsg.): Kurzgefasstes Tonkünstler-Lexikon Leipzig. 1927.
  • Music in past and present 2 (second edition), personal section, article Samuel Voelckel , 2007
  • Walther Vetter : The early German song . Selected chapters from the development history and aesthetics of the one- and polyphonic German art song in the 17th century. 2 volumes. Münster 19281928, p. 122 (quoted from MGG 2)
  • Günther Schmidt: The music at the court of the margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the end of the Middle Ages to 1806 . Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel and Basel 1956, pp. 30 to 34.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the abbreviation behind Voelckel's name »Regiom. Bor. «In ADB (Eitner): [1]
  2. ↑ According to the death register of the City Church of Bayreuth, his funeral on April 18, 1621 as Kapellmeister [old] was 57 years old . From this he was born in 1564. See Irene Hegen: Die Margräfliche Hofkapelle zu Bayreuth (1661–1769) . In: Silke Leopold, Bärbel Pelker: Süddeutsche Hofkapellen im 18. Jahrhundert (PDF), p. 5, fn. 28 (concerning Bayreuth church records).
  3. ↑ Günther Schmidt 1956, p. 31.
  4. ^ Church book St. Johannis, Ansbach (see Günther Schmidt 1956, p. 33).
  5. ↑ Günther Schmidt 1956, p. 33.
  6. ^ Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Vol . 36 . Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Kassel 1903, p. 52–58 ( online in Google Book Search).
  7. ^ Note box in the Bayreuth City Archives .
  8. ↑ Find the location and first notification of the burial entry see Irene Hegen: Die margräfliche Hofkapelle zu Bayreuth (1661-1769) . In: Silke Leopold, Bärbel Pelker (ed.): South German court chapels in the 18th century. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Southwest German Court Music, PDF 2014, p. 5, fn. 28.
  9. ↑ Friedrich Blume : The music in the past and present: general encyclopedia of music . DTV / Bärenreiter, Mchn-Kassel 1989, p. 1879 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Voelckel, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Völckel, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1564
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH buried April 18, 1621
Place of death Bayreuth