Christoph Gottlieb Wend

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Christoph Gottlieb Wend (also Wendt) (* in Lausitz ; † November 1745 ; pseudonyms: Selimantes , Selamintes ) was a German writer , librettist and translator .

Life

His life took him from Lausitz to Hamburg, where he presumably also died. He wrote libretti for several operas by Georg Philipp Telemann , e.g. B. Flavius ​​Bertaridus, King of the Longobards and Emma and Eginhard or the burden of love. Wend wrote German recitatives for some of the operas by George Frideric Handel that were put on the program at the Hamburg Opera am Gänsemarkt (e.g. Rodelinda, regina de 'Longobardi ), while the arias remained untranslated. He also created the first German translation of Gulliver's Travels .

Works

  • The happy and unhappy love, or the difference between the human minds [...] of Selamintes . Hamburg: Chr. Liebezeit, 1711. [Expl. Duke August Library : Lo. 7145].
  • The foolish and yet popular Cupid [...] by Selamintes . Leipzig; Reverb; Hamburg, 1713 [Munich State Library: Pogerm.259.d; Beibd.1].
  • Desfontaines, Pierre François Guydot, 1685-1745. The New Gulliver, or Johann Gullivers, a son of Capitain Gulliver's journey. Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, & Altona, n. Pr. 1731 Anon. transl. Christoph Gottlieb Wend (Selimantes), Hamburg.
  • Poetic goods / brought to Marckte by Selimantes [pseud.], Hamburg: Printed and published by seel. Thomas von Wiering's heirs; Leipzig: by Philip Hertel, 1729.
  • A Novel Without A Novel: Or, The Story Of The Countess Of Gondez Described By Her And Translated From The French By Selimantes. Printed and published by seel. Thomas von Wiering's heirs, Hamburg 1730.

literature

  • Wolfgang Hirschmann : A Zwydorn from a Saxon and a Silesian. Materials for Christoph Gottlieb Wend . In: The Upper Lusatia - a border region of Central German baroque music . Ortus Musikverlag, Beeskow 2007, ISBN 978-3-937788-11-1 , pp. 73-86.
  • Wolfgang Hirschmann: Wend, Wendt, Christoph Gottlieb, pseudonym Selimantes . In: Music in the past and present . Person part, 17: From – Z. Bärenreiter, Kassel [u. a.] 2007, ISBN 978-3-7618-1137-5 .
  • Christian Seebald: Libretti from the "Middle Ages" (early modern times): discoveries of history in (north) German and European opera around 1700 . [Series early modern times , 134], Niemeyer, Tübingen 2009.
  • Olaf Simons: Marteau's Europe or The Novel Before It Became Literature . Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta 2001, pp. 330-243, 391-398.
personal data
SURNAME Wend, Christoph Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wendt, Christoph Gottlieb; Selimantes (pseudonym); Selamintes (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, librettist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century or 18th century
DATE OF DEATH November 1745