Johann Sigismund Scholze

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Cover sheet for "Singing Muse on the Pleisse"

Johann Sigismund Scholze alias Sperontes (born March 20, 1705 in Lobendau near Liegnitz (today Lubiatów as part of the rural community of Złotoryja ); † September 28, 1750 in Leipzig ) was a German music collector and author from Silesia .

Life

Little is known about Scholz's life. He was the son of an official clerk and attended school in Liegnitz in Silesia until he began his studies in Leipzig. In 1729 he was “Studiosus” in Leipzig and also appeared as “candidatus juris”. On January 3rd, he was married in Leipzig by order of the consistory to the widow of a caterer from Halle , with whom he had started a relationship. The children died early. Only one survived. His wife died on February 12, 1738. His poor funeral was on September 30, 1750.

We owe the knowledge that only Sperontes published under the pseudonym Johann Sigismund Scholze to the musicologist Philipp Spitta , who published a fundamental work on Sperontes in 1885.

Works

Title page to "Singing Muse on the Pleiße"

The best-known work of Scholzes is the song collection “Sperontes, singing muse on the Pleisse” in two times 50 odes, the latest and greatest musical pieces with the associated melodies for popular piano exercises and idolatry. Along with an appendix from JC Günther's poems. Leipzig. At the expense of the merry company 1736 ” . The above-mentioned JC Günther is the lyric poet Johann Christian Günther , who also died in 1723 and who also came from Silesia , and the jolly company was a music-making student group from Leipzig at the beginning of the 18th century, which also included J.Ch. Günther was close or belonged to her. The collection was expanded and saw numerous editions, from 1740 at Breitkopf & Härtel as one of the publisher's first music editions. The "Singing Muse" is primarily a collection of relatively simple melodies that can be performed instrumentally and to which Scholze has put his own texts. She has influenced contemporary and subsequent composers.

Scholze also wrote the lyrics for three shepherd games

  • Das Kätzgen, a shepherd's game , Leipzig 1746. Microfiche edition. Saur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-598-52638-5 .
  • The fair , Leipzig 1746.
  • The garter . Stopffel, Leipzig 1748.

Scholze was also involved in two Singspiele under his pseudonym, namely Der Frühling , set to music by JGA Fritzchen, and Der Winter .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Kade:  Scholze, Johann Sigismund . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 231-233.
  2. ↑ Philipp Spitta: Sperontes' “Singing Muse on the Pleiße” , quarterly journal for musicology 1 1885, pp. 35–126 and 350–355
  3. ↑ a b Sperontes (Johann Sigismund Scholze) . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
personal data
SURNAME Scholze, Johann Sigismund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sperontes (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music collector and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1705
PLACE OF BIRTH Lobendau near Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1750
Place of death Leipzig