Sigmund Theophil Staden

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Sigmund Theophil Staden

Sigmund Theophil (Gottlieb) Staden (baptized November 6, 1607 in Kulmbach ; † buried July 30, 1655 in Nuremberg ) was a German organist , composer , town piper , painter and poet.

Life

Sigmund Theophil Staden was the son of the princely Brandenburg-Culmbach-Bayreuth court organist Johann Staden . He was born in Kulmbach, the temporary residence of the Bayreuth Markgrafenhof. From 1616 the family moved to Nuremberg. He received musical training from his father. In 1620, the father asked, unsuccessfully, for his 13-year-old, musically gifted son, for a paid specialist position . Then Staden started an apprenticeship with the Augsburg city musician Jakob Baumann, for which he was granted 150 guilders for food and teaching fees by the Nuremberg Council. In 1623 he got a job with the city of Nuremberg. In 1627 Staden stayed in Berlin for a few months with the support of the council to learn to play the viola bastarda with the English viola player Walter Rowe . At that time he received the vacant position due to the death of a town musician.

In Nuremberg, Staden was in charge of the four music choirs, which on September 25, 1649, at the end of the Thirty Years' War, musically framed the peace meal on the occasion of the peace execution congress in the Nuremberg town hall hall. Twelve of the Musical Peace Songs performed at the time and composed by Staden have been preserved ( Musicalische Friedensgesänge , Nuremberg 1651).

Staden was organist at the St. Lorenz Church in Nuremberg and, like his famous father Johann Staden (1581–1634), is buried in the St. Johannisfriedhof .

Stadens Oper Seelewig

Sigmund Theophil Staden's most famous work is the oldest completely preserved German opera applicable The Spiritual Forest poem or pleasure game genant Seelewig (Nuremberg 1644; text by Georg Philipp Harsdörffer ). It is a completely composed allegorical act about the (female) soul, called the soul eternal .

  • Title: The spiritual forest poem / or / game of joy / called / SEELEWIG / Gesangsweis / on / Italian style / set.
  • The voices of the people in the original wording:
    • 3 discant or upper voice ( nymfen and shepherdesses ):
      • Eternal
      • Sinnigunda
      • Herzigild
    • 2 alto or high voices:
      • Gwissulda, a matron
      • Künsteling (shepherd)
    • 2 tenor or medium voices:
      • Praise of honor (shepherd)
      • Reichimuht (shepherd)
    • 1 bass or basic part:
      • Deceitfulness / the satyrus or spirit of whale
  • Instrument [s]:
    • 3 violins
    • 3 flutes
    • 3 shawmies
    • 1 coarse horn
    • The reason for this Music leadeth a Theorba through and through [so that is basso -Begleitung by a theorbo meant].
  • Three acts , divided into elevators
  • Music: It consists of short instrumental preludes and interludes, called symphonia , single chants from verse songs and sung-reciting passages, duets, trios and polyphonic choirs.
  • Plot: All actors are allegorical figures around the temptation of the nymph Seelewig ( soul ) between good and evil and their persistence. At the end there is a choir of angels and a soloist singing The Art of Painting to the audience .

Individual notes

  1. ↑ Reference to the monody (single voice) since Jacopo Peri (1561–1633), and with it Claudio Monteverdi's (1567–1643) Italian singing at the time of Stadens.

Music theoretical works

  • Rudimentum musicum, that is: Kurtze Instruction of Singing for the Dear Youth 1648, appeared in four editions by 1663, all of which are considered lost.
  • Outline of the beginning, progression, endings, usage and abuse of Noble Music (1643)
  • Officium organicum (1651)
  • Poetic presentation of earthly and heavenly music. Designed in a copper picture by the world famous musico, Mr. Sigismondo Theophilo Staden (1658)

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personal data
SURNAME Staden, Sigmund Theophil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staden, Sigmund Theophil Gottlieb (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, composer, town piper, painter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH baptized November 6, 1607
PLACE OF BIRTH Kulmbach
DATE OF DEATH buried July 30, 1655
Place of death Nuremberg