Wolfgang Michael Mylius
Wolfgang Michael Mylius (* 1636 in Mannstedt , † 1713 in Gotha ) was a German composer and conductor .
Life
His father Andreas Mylius (* 1610; † 1648) had been pastor in Mannstedt since 1633 and had been with Maria geb. Axthelm († 1675) married. In 1650, Wolfgang Michael enrolled in theology at the University of Jena . On July 31, 1661, he was hired as a musician at the court of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm II in Altenburg as the Hochfürstlicher Altenburgischer Kapellmeister, who sent him from August 1, 1661 to December 10, 1662 to study with Christoph Bernhard in Dresden .
Since the Altenburg court chapel was dissolved in 1669, he retired for three years, but then joined the chapel of Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Gotha , who inherited the Altenburg estate, in 1672 . On April 1, 1676, he succeeded Georg Ludwig Agricola as court conductor in Gotha and reorganized the court orchestra. He married Anna Maria Oehlbeer, who died in Gotha in 1690. After that he lived with his daughter Maria Elisabeth.
In 1673 he was present at the wedding celebrations of Emperor Emperor Leopold I with Claudia Felizitas of Austria-Tyrol in Vienna . He presented Leopold with a number of his own compositions, and the Kaiser again presented him with his own composition and a gold chain.
In the summer of 1708 he stayed with his new employer Friedrich II at Neu-Augustusburg Castle in Weißenfels for the celebrations of the wedding of Duke Johann Wilhelm von Sachsen-Eisenach and Magdalena Sibylla von Sachsen-Weißenfels to watch the court opera there to study.
In addition to his Rudimenta musices , which is considered to be one of the first instructions for singing, Mylius composed religious pieces of music and singspiels, which were not published.
In the literature (including ADB) Wolfgang Michael Mylius is often incorrectly named as Christoph Graupner's teacher . But what is meant is Gottfried Mylius (* 1659; † 1731), who was cantor in Reichenbach in the Vogtland around 1694 .
plant
- Hail Mary you are blessed Jacobi Collection, Grimma, 1683.
- Rudimenta musices, that is: a short and fundamentally correct instruction on the art of singing, such as to teach boys in schools as well as in private information properly and correctly, in which all extensive and unnecessary rules for such instruction are omitted, the useful -most and most necessary but diligently stated and clearly explained with short examples of the dear youth for the best [...] Given on the day of WMMMTCMG Gotha, 1685
- Motet for 4 voices and basso continuo, 1697.
- The necessary weeping in time and soul. Rejoice in eternity ...: ... Alß die Weyland ... Ms. Christina, widowed Hertduchess of Saxony, ... Between the 20th and 21st December. ... At night around 1 o'clock ... this temporality happily decided, and December 24th. ... in the prince. Funeral at Altenburg was agreed, Bey der ... Christl. Mourning and remembrance sermon ... by means of musical composition by Wolffgang Michael Mylium ... as well as the rest of the prince. Cammer and Hof Musicos ... Altenburg, 1706 , was introduced before and after the sermon .
- Dialogue for soprano, alto and mixed choir, 5 viols and bc
- A maid played a song
literature
- Robert Eitner : Mylius, Wolfgang Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 144 f.
- Johann Carl Mylius: History of the Mylius families. Genealogical-biographical family chronicle of the Mylius of all times and countries. Buttstädt 1895, p. 227.
- Florian Bassani Grampp: The "Rudimenta musices" by Wolfgang Michael Mylius. An important German source on singing practice in the 17th century. In: Schütz Yearbook 2008. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mylius, Wolfgang Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German baroque composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1636 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannstedt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1713 |
| Place of death | Gotha |