Christian Friedrich Hunold ( German: Christian Friedrich Hunold , pseudonym Menantes , German: Menantes ; September 29, 1681 , Vandersleben - August 6, 1721 , Halle ) - German poet and librettist .
He received his primary education at a school near Arnstadt , then at the Weissenfels Grammar School. He entered the University of Jena , which he did not graduate due to lack of money. Since 1700, he worked in a law office in Hamburg , at the same time trying himself as a writer. In the same year he wrote the first novel Die verliebte und galante Welt , which brought him success; it was followed by the French-based Adalia and the politically risky “History of Heroes and Love affairs at a European Court” ( German: Der Europäischen Höfe Liebes- und Heldengeschichte ; 1705 ), based on the story of Count Königsmark . In 1703, Reinhard Kaiser ordered him a libretto for the opera Solomon, and in 1704 for the opera Nebuchadnezzar. In 1704, Hunold wrote the text for Kaiser's passionate oratorio , Bleeding and Dying Jesus ( German: Der blutige und sterbende Jesus ). After the publication in 1706 of the Satirical Roman ( German: Satyrischer Roman ), where he described the artists of the Hamburg opera, he was forced to return to Wandersleben , then taught rhetoric and poetry at the University of Halle .
See also
The last years of the poet's life
Literature
- Irmgard Scheitler . Deutschsprachige Oratorienlibretti: von den Anfängen bis 1730. Verlag Ferd. Schââ € ing ningh GmbH & Co KG, 2005. ISBN 3506729551 . P.171-173
- Julie Anne Sadie . Companion to baroque music. University of California Press, 1998. ISBN 0520214145 . P. 172