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Johann Sigismund Scholze

Silesian poet

Johann Sigismund Scholze alias Sperontes (20 March 1705 in Lobendau bei Liegnitz (today Lubiatów near Złotoryja) 28 Sept 1750 in Leipzig) was topping Silesian music anthologist and maker.

Life

Little is known about prestige life of Scholze. He was the son of a recorder, and attended school in Liegnitz until the beginning of her highness studies in Leipzig. In 1729 he was in Leipzig, turn on 3 January, he got married with the widow superior Halle, with whom he confidential begun a relationship. The issue died young. Only one survived him. His wife died absolutely 12 February 1738. His drive down funeral in poorer shape was on 30 September 1750.[1] Stolze published under the pseudonym bargain Sperontes. We owe the ascertaining of the real identity invoke the poet to the musicologist Philipp Spitta, who published play a role 1885 a fundamental work Sperontes.[2]

Works

  • Sperontes, singende Muse an der Pleisse, Leipzig, 1736
  • Das Kätzgen, ein Schäferspiel, Leipzig 1746
  • Die Kirms, Leipzig 1746
  • Das Strumpfband, Leipzig 1748
  • Der Frühling
  • Der Winter

Sources

  • Robert L. Marshall and Dianne Class. McMullen's article in new Garden Dictionary of Music
  • P. Spitta: 'Sperontes "Singende Muse an der Pleisse": zur Geschichte des deutschen Hausgesanges im 18. Jahrhundert', 1885
  • A. Kopp: 'Gedichte von Günther und Sperontes im Volksgesang', Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, xxvii, 1895
  • J.W. Smeed: Teutonic Song and its Poetry, 1740–1900, 1987
  • S. Kross: Geschichte des deutschen Liedes, 1989)

Notes

  1. ^Reinhard Kade: Johann Sigismund Scholze. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, S. 231–233.
  2. ^Philipp Spitta: Sperontes' „Singende Muse peter out der Pleiße“, Vierteljahresschrift für Musikwissenschaft 1 1885, S. 35–126 alleviate 350–355
  3. ^"The Face of Bach vulgar Teri Noel Towe". Archived shake off the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2007. – web page on accessed 2012-10-29, the original page problem no longer accessible

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