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Schröder, Johann Heinrich
(96 words)
[German Version] (Oct 4, 1666, Hallerspringe – Jun 30, 1699, Meseberg, near Magdeburg), Protestant hymnodist. He studied in Leipzig, where he had contact with A.H. Francke, and was a pastor in Meseberg from 1696. According to J.A. Freylinghausen (1704), author of five hymns included in Halle hymnals after 1695. Although criticized in 1716 as “chiliastic,” his “Jesu, hilf siegen” became very popular in the 18th century. The
Evangelisches Gesangbuch includes it (373) as well as his “Eins ist not” (386). Barbara Lange Bibliography
ADB 32, 1891, 518f. G.A. Krieg,
HdbEG II, 1999, 282.
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Religion Past and Present
Weissel, Georg
(173 words)
[German Version] (1590, Domnau, East Prussia [today Domnovo, Russia] – Aug 1, 1635, Königsberg [Kaliningrad]), Protestant pastor and hymnodist. He studied theology at Königsberg and served as a pastor there after 1623. He was a member of the circle of Königsberg poets and musicians around S. Dach and Heinrich Albert. Apart from a few occasional poems, Weissel wrote texts based on the church year and the lectionary, which were set by Johannes Eccard and his student Johann Stobaeus, the cantor of Kö…
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Religion Past and Present
Winter, Veit Anton
(284 words)
[German Version] (May 22, 1754, Hohenegglkofen, near Landshut – Feb 27, 1814, Landshut). Winter was appointed municipal pastor in Ingolstadt in 1794 as well as professor at the university, initially responsible for church history, subsequently for liturgics, catechetics, and moral theology as well. He played a major role in the university’s relocation to Landshut in 1800. In 1804 he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. With critical study of the sources, Winter specia…
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Religion Past and Present
Vulpius, Melchior
(150 words)
[German Version] (c. 1570, Wasungen – buried Aug 7, 1615, Weimar), composer, organist, and choir director. Initially he worked as a teacher and musician in Schleusingen, then from 1596 until his death as musical director of the city of Weimar. Vulpius’s motets based on Gospel texts (Gospel intonation), homophonic hymn settings, and a responsorial passion mark him out as a significant Protestant composer before H. Schütz. His publications include
Cantiones sacrae, 3 vols. (1602); his polyphonic
Kirchengeseng und geistliche Lieder (1604);
Deutsche sonntägliche Evangeliensprüche,…
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Religion Past and Present
Walther, Johann Gottfried
(110 words)
[German Version] (Sep 18, 1684, Erfurt – Mar 23, 1748, Weimar), organist, composer, music theorist, lexicographer. Appointed city organist of Weimar in 1707, he also served as court musician after 1721. In Weimar he worked closely for a time with J.S. Bach, who was related to him. Walther composed primarily organ works based on a
cantus firmus. His
Musicalisches Lexicon was published in 1732 (study ed. 2001). His ¶ 1707 manuscript
Praecepta der Musicalischen Composition was published in 1955 (ed. P. Benary). Barbara Lange Bibliography
Gesammelte Werke für Orgel, ed. M. Seiffert, 19…
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Religion Past and Present
Teschner, Melchior
(134 words)
[German Version] (Apr 29, 1584, Fraustadt [Wschowa, Poland] – Dec 1, 1635, Oberpritschen, near Fraustadt [today Przyczyna Górna]), studied theology and philosophy in Frankfurt an der Oder (from 1601) and Wittenberg (from 1608). He also studied music with Bartholomäus Gesius (1560–1613). In 1609 he was appointed organist and choirmaster in Fraustadt and in 1614 pastor in Oberpritschen. He composed the tune for the hymn “Valet will ich dir geben,” written by the Fraustadt pastor V. Herberger (publ. 1614). Also popular as a tune for other hymns (e.g.
Gotteslob 468), it appears with H…
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Religion Past and Present
Wolkan, Rudolf
(159 words)
[German Version] (Jul 21, 1860, Přelouč, Bohemia [today in the Czech Republic] – Jul 16, 1927, Vienna), librarian and literary historian. He studied German literature at Prague and became a professor and vice-director of the university library in Vienna. For the most part, Humanism and the Reformation, primarily in Bohemia, constituted the focus of his works on the history of literature and religion, which document his clear interest in the religious bodies of that period and their hymnody. There is still no published assessment of his life and work. Barbara Lange Bibliography Works in…
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Religion Past and Present