Volckmar Leisring

Volckmar Leisring , in the sources also Volkmar or Leissringk or Leisringius (* around 1588 in Gebstedt , † 1637 in Buchfart ) was a German cantor , composer and Protestant pastor .

biography

From 1606 Leisring studied theology in Jena . His friends and fellow students included Johann Matthäus Meyfart and Caspar von Teutleben . During his time in Jena, Leisring had a celebratory speech printed under the title Corona Musices , ie “To praise music”. In it, Meyfart praises him as a musician who is excellent in both theory and practice. After printing various individual works, Leisring published his collection of 5- to 8-part choral movements for worship use under the title Cymbalum Davidicum and a musicological work Breviarium Artis Musices . In 1612 he became rector, cantor and town clerk in Schkölen near Weißenfels. It was probably during these years that he had contact with the composers Melchior Vulpius and Johann Hermann Schein . In 1618 he becomes pastor of Nohra in the Erfurt region and finally in 1629 in Buchfart . Worn by worries about daily bread in the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War , probably no more compositions were created during the parish office.

Works

• Bride song from the XXVI. Chapter Syrachs, Jena 1609.
• Cymbalum Davidicum of 4, 5, 6 and 8st. Teutschen Lieder , Jena 1609, 2nd edition Erfurt 1619.
• Canticum gratulatorium in Faustum , Jena 1610.
• Corona musices , quam ex lectissimis & suavissimis, ac ex musaru [m] charitumq [ue] viridario decerptis flosculis, Jena 1611 ( digital copy of the copy from the Danish Royal Library ).
• Breviarium artis musices or Ein kurtzes u. Simple music booklet for the young boys, so they first began to learn to sing, and other lovers of this art: ask the very clearest question, now overlooked for new, and increased with a number of capitibuses, Jena 1615.
• Strenophonia or a new year gift, 4, 5, 6 u. 8 voices, Jena 1615.
• Taedae nuptiales in 16 graceful wedding chants , Erfurt 1624.

literature

• Horst Leisring: Volckmar Leisring. 1588-1637. A Thuringian pastor and composer . Self-published.
• lu:  Leisring, Volkmar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 225 f.
• Thomas Synofzik:  Leisring, Volckmar. In: MGG Online (subscription required).

Web links

• Works by and about Volckmar Leisring in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Volckmar Leisring  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by and about Volckmar Leisring in VD 17 .
• Sheet music and audio files by Volckmar Leisring in the International Music Score Library Project