Simon Lohet

Simon Lohet (* before 1550 near Maastricht ; † before July 5, 1611 in Stuttgart ) was a Franco-Flemish composer and organist of the Renaissance .

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Simon Lohet's father was a certain Jean de Liège, so it is also possible that Lohet was born in Liège . No information is available about the composer's youth and education. There is only evidence of his curriculum vitae since he joined the Württemberg court orchestra in Stuttgart as organist on September 14, 1571. Other organists at the court of Ludwig the Pious at this time were the very old Utz Steigleder († 1581) and Hans Franz Fries (until 1572). It was also Lohet's job to manage the court orchestra's instruments. In the relevant documents, the composer's trips to the then southern Netherlands ( Antwerp ) for the acquisition of music are noted for the years 1572, 1573 and 1576 , and in 1581 there was a trip to Venice to acquire musical instruments and sheet music. In addition to his position as court organist, Lohet also taught a large group of students. This included his son Ludwig Lohet (1577–1617), who later also worked as a composer, as well as the later Stuttgart monastery organist Wolfgang Ganß the Younger, Georg Stammler, who later became organist in Esslingen and Schwäbisch Gmünd , and Adam Steigleder (1561– 1633), the father of Johann Ulrich Steigleder . Members of aristocratic families in Württemberg were also among his students. Simon Lohet was discharged from his service on December 19th due to old age and lived for almost ten years in Stuttgart, where he was buried on July 5th, 1611.

meaning

The instrumental works for organ, which Lohet himself called “ fugues ” and which were published by Johann Woltz in 1617, have a certain musical historical significance . These are relatively short, cannon-like pieces, about 20 to 35 bars long, which are usually based on a single melodic move, which is then answered and subjected to a development. In addition, there are also two-part joint shapes in which several processing options are used. In very few pieces of this type, the fugue theme is simultaneously added and processed. Two chorale adaptations by Lohet have also come down to us, stylistically in the contemporary southern German tradition.

Works

(all organ compositions)

• Works from “Nova musices organicae tabulatura” by Johann Woltz, Basel 1617
  • 20 joints
  • 1 canzone
  • 2 chorale arrangements
  • 2 intabulated German motets
• Other works
  • 6 fugues in tablature

Literature (selection)

• J. Sittard: On the history of music and theater at the Württembergischer Hofe , Volume 1, Stuttgart 1890
• G. Bossert: The Hofkantorei (court chapel) under Duke Christoph von Württemberg. In: Monthly Issues for Music History No. 31, 1899
• Gotthold Frotscher: History of organ playing and organ composition 1 , Berlin 1935, 3rd edition 1966
• Alfred Reichling: Simon Lohet. In: Music and Altar No. 11, 1958
• Klaus-Jürgen Sachs: The joint corpus of Simon Lohet in Johannes Woltz 'tablature book from 1617. In: Festschrift M. Just, edited by Fr. Heidelberger, W. Osthoff and R. Wiesend, Kassel 1991, pages 155-168

Web links

• Works by and about Simon Lohet in the catalog of the German National Library
• IMSLP: Nova musices organicae tabulatura

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1. ↑ Manfred Schuler:  Lohet, Simon. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 11 (Lesage - Menuhin). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7 , Sp. 412–413 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
   Marc Honegger, Günther Massenkeil (ed.): The great lexicon of music. Volume 5: Köth - Mystical Chord. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1981, ISBN 3-451-18055-3 .
   Call Simon . ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Family data from the Martinszeller Family Foundation , accessed on August 19, 2017. Thierry Levaux: Dictionnaire des compositeurs de Belgique du Moyen Age à nos jours. Art in Belgium, Brussels 2006, ISBN 2-930338-37-7 .