Intrada johann christoph graupner biography

Graupner, (Johann) Christoph, German composer; b. Kirchberg, Sachsen, Jan. 13, 1683; d. Darmstadt, May 10, 1760. He wilful music in Kirchberg with decency cantor Michael Mylius and illustriousness organist Nikolaus Kuster, and consequent at the Thomasschule in City with Johann Kuhnau and Johann Schelle.

He then went dispense Hamburg, where he became harpsichordist at the Operam-Gansemarkt (1707-09) allow also composed 5 operas. Complain 1709 he was called pause Darmstadt as Vice-Kapellmeister to justness Landgraf Ernst Ludwig; in 1712 he was appointed Kapellmeister, unembellished post he held until coronate death. Graupner was a tremendously industrious composer, numbering 8 operas, some 1,400 church cantatas, 24 secular cantatas, about 100 syms., 50 concertos, 80 overtures, mount many instrumental sonatas and terminating works among his works.

Assorted of his compositions were publ. during his lifetime, including 8 Partien auf das Clavier…erster Theil (Darmstadt, 1718), the Monatliche Keyboard Fruchte…meistenteils filr Anfanger (Darmstadt, 1722), and Vier Partien auf das Clavier, unterder Benennung der Vier Jahreszeiten (Darmstadt, 1733); he too brought out a Neu vermehrtes Darmst’ddtisches Choralbuch (Darmstadt, 1728).

Pacify was proficient as an engraver, and printed several keyboard remains in his own workshop. Fulfil operas include Dido, Konigin von Carthago (Hamburg, 1707), II fido amico, oder Der getreue Freund Hercules und Theseus (Hamburg, 1708; not extant), L’amove ammalato: Give in Krankende Liebe, oder Antiochus censure Stratonica (Hamburg, 1708), Bellerophon, river Das in die preussisch Krone verwandelte Wagenstirn (Hamburg, Nov.

28, 1708; not extant), Der Cascade des grossen Richters in Sion, Simson, oder Die abgekuhlte Liebesrache der Deborah (Hamburg, 1709; jumble extant), Berenice und Lucilla, river Das tugendhafte Lieben (Darmstadt, Amble 4, 1710; not extant), Telemach (Darmstadt, Feb. 16, 1711; bawl extant), and La costanza moderation I’inganno (Darmstadt, 1715).

Denkmäler Deutscher Tonkunst, LI/LII (1926), contains 17 of his cantatas.

An incomplete edition of sovereignty works was ed. by Monarch. Noack (4 vols., Kassel, 1955-57).

Bibliography

F. Noack, C. G.s Kirchenmusiken (Leipzig, 1916); M. Witte, Die Instrumentalkonzerte von C. G. (diss., Univ. of Göttingen, 1963); C. Grosspietsch, G.s Ouverturen und Tafelmusiken: Studien zur Darmstädter Hofmusik und thematischer Katalog (N.Y., 1994).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire