Wolfgang Schmeltzl

Memorial plaque for Wolfgang Schmeltzl at the elementary school in St. Lorenzen am Steinfeld

Wolfgang Schmeltzl (* around 1,500 / 05 in Kemnath ( Upper Palatinate ), † around 1564 in St. Lorenzen am Steinfeld , today Ternitz ( Lower Austria )) was a composer , poet , schoolmaster and a Catholic priest .

life and work

Schmeltzl worked as a cantor in the Benedictine monastery Kastl and in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate. After the Upper Palatinate became Protestant in 1538 , he went to Vienna , where he worked as a schoolmaster at the Schottenstift and wrote some biblical plays. After 1554 he is attested as a Catholic pastor of St. Lorenzen.

In addition to the surviving biblical dramas, his songbook Guter, Strange and Artful Teutscher Gesang (Nuremberg 1544), which is considered to be one of the most important sources in the history of the Quodlibet, is of musical historical significance .

Appreciation

In 1898, Wolfgang-Schmälzl-Gasse in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (2nd district) was named after him in a different spelling .

Work editions

Cover picture of the songbook Good Strange and Artful German Singing

• Cora Dietl, Manfred Knedlik (eds.): Wolfgang Schmeltzl: Complete writings Volume 1: The dramatic work . LIT-Verlag, Vienna / Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1630-8 .
• Ella Triebnigg (Ed.): Wolfgang Schmeltzl. The Viennese Hans Sachs. A selection of his works . Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna 1915, digitized version (PDF), with bibliography
• August Silberstein (Ed.): A Praise of the City of Vienna in Austria (1548) . Linguistic renewed and edited along with introduction and comments. A. Hartleben, Vienna-Pest-Leipzig 1892 ( archive.org - copy of Google books).

literature

• Cora Dietl: Wolfgang Schmeltzl and the beginnings of the Catholic school theater at the Wiener Schottenstift. In: Austria in history and literature. 46, 2002, pp. 287-294
• Rudolf Flotzinger : Wolfgang Schmeltzl and his "Teutscher Gesang" from 1544. In: Studies on musicology. 39, 1988, pp. 7-36
• Rudolf Flotzinger : Schmeltzl, Wolfgang. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
• Manfred Knedlik: Wolfgang Schmeltzl. School dramatist, chronicler and musician in the age of the Reformation. In: Austria in history and literature. 37, 1993, pp. 92-104
• Manfred Knedlik:  Schmeltzl, Wolfgang. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 1280-1284.
• Manfred Knedlik:  Schmeltzl, Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 128 ( digitized version ).
• Wolfgang Rappel: Schmeltzl (Schmältzl), Wolfgang. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 681 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Spengler:  Schmeltzl, Wolfgang . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 637 f.

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Schmeltzl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Schmeltzl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolfgang Schmeltzl in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Works by Wolfgang Schmeltzl at Zeno.org .
• Wolfgang Schmeltzl in the Internet Archive
• Entry on Wolfgang Schmeltzl in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Entry on Wolfgang Schmeltzl in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Schmeltzl, Wolfgang . Entry in the database of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (currently not available)
• Wolfgang Schmeltzl in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )