Wolfgang Schmelzl ( German: Wolfgang Schmeltzl ; between 1500 and 1505 , Kemnat , Upper Palatinate - 1564 , St. Lorenzen am Steinfeld, now part of Ternitz , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian composer and playwright, a Catholic priest, sometimes called the "Vienna Hans Saxom . "
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He served as cantor in the Benedictine Abbey of Castle , then in Weiden . After the dominance of Protestants was established in Upper Palatinate in 1538 , he moved to Vienna and entered the Benedictine Abbey of Our Lady of the Scots , where he supervised the school and performances of the biblical theater. Since 1554 he served as a priest in St. Lorenzen.
For the theater in Scottish Abbey, Schmelzl was obliged to compose annually on a play on a biblical story. Seven of them have survived, in most cases these are alterations and imitations, and only the last known, “Samuel and Saul” ( 1551 ), is quite original. Of particular interest are also the “Commendable Word to the City of Vienna” ( German: Lobspruch der Stadt Wien ; 1548 ) and the epic poem “The Most Christian and Powerful Campaign in the Country of Hungarians” ( German: Der Christlich und Gewaltig Zug in das Hungerland ; 1556 ), without delay praised the military operation of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria against the Turks.
In the history of music, Schmelzl remained as the compiler (and author of the processing) of the song collection “Kind, Extraordinary and Skillful German Singing” ( German: Guter, seltzamer, und künstreicher teutscher Gesang: sonderlich ettliche künstliche Quodlibet-Schlacht, und der gderichen mitffen mit biss her im Truck nicht gesehen ; Nuremberg , 1544 ) - it is noted that Schmelzl’s experiments represent an important episode in the history of the transition of German music from Cantus firmus to polyphony [3] ; For the first time, Shmelzl used the term “ kvodlibet ” as the genre designation of one of such experiments.
Sources
- ↑ 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 11879518X // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 International Standard Identifier
- ↑ Wolfgang Schmeltzl: Da trunken sie, Quodlibet // AEIOU: Musik Geschichte (German)
Literature
- Cora Dietl: Wolfgang Schmeltzl und die Anfänge des katholischen Schultheaters am Wiener Schottenstift. // Österreich in Geschichte und Literatur. 46, 2002, S. 287-294.
- Rudolf Flotzinger: Wolfgang Schmeltzl und sein "Teutscher Gesang" von 1544. // Studien zur Musikwissenschaft. 39, 1988, S. 7-36.
- Manfred Knedlik: Wolfgang Schmeltzl. Schuldramatiker, Chronist und Musiker im Reformationszeitalter. // Österreich in Geschichte und Literatur. 37, 1993, S. 92-104.
- Manfred Knedlik: Schmeltzl, Wolfgang // Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, band 20, sp. 1280–1284.
- Ella Triebnigg (Hrsg.): Wolfgang Schmeltzl. Der Wiener Hans Sachs. Eine Auslese seiner Werke (link not available) . Gerlach & Wiedling, Wien 1915, mit Literaturverzeichnis