Daniel Speer

Georg Daniel Speer ( baptized July 2, 1636 in Breslau, † October 5, 1707 in Göppingen ) was a German writer and composer of the Baroque.

Life

Speer was the son of George Breslauer furrier Speer and his wife Margaret. An entry in the archive of the Magdalene Church in Wroclaw noted that he was baptized on July 2, 1636, the day of his birth. Speer visited some years, Mary Magdalene School, but lost as a child, the parents and grew up in an orphanage, from which he fled.

For the subsequent years of restless wandering life are no exact information, but it seems to have reached inter alia through Slovakia to Hungary and Romania, which can be inferred from his knowledge of the Balkans. Apparently, he served temporarily as a war trumpet player and drummer army. Why it eventually drove him to southern Germany, is uncertain. 1669 we find him as a musician in Großbottwar where he Apollonia Buttersack married on May 11, 1669 1670 to 1673 he was provisor ( assistant ) in Leonberg, 1673-1689 Collaborator in Göppingen.

Since Speer had now taken in Göppingen for the first time in his life a firm footing, he was able to devote even his literary interests besides music. In this his most productive time incurred various compositions, picaresque novels and other literary publications. Because of his patriotic views against the French occupation it was mid- February 1689 interned at Hohenneuffen. The Göppingen tried made ​​to free their teacher, but was eventually released as a spear, he came as a collaborator to the Waiblingen Latin School, where he devoted himself exclusively to composition.

In 1694 he was able to return to Göppingen, where he retired in the last years due to reduced work force, on October 5, 1707 passed away at 71 years.

Works (selection)

  • Hungarian or Dacianischer Simplicissimus. o.o. 1683 (reprint 1973 Vienna )
  • Reason - more correctly / kurtz / easily and more needful lessons The Musica Lischen art. How to should sing fitly and in Kurtzer time chorale and Figural / Den General -Bass tractiren / and learn of composing is. Ulm 1687
  • Musically - Türckischer Owl mirror. Ulm 1688 (reprint Bratislava 1971)
  • Chant - book / Auff the Clavier or organ / Wherein all useful churches and Hauss - Besängen own Melodeyen / in notes Set with 2 votes / as [! ]: In addition to an appendix of many exquisite arias and: treble and bass among themselves newly introduced Beautiful Witty to use songs auff all sorts of cases. Stuttgart 1692
  • Basic right / Kurtz - light and Nöthiger / now Wol - increased teaching of Musicalisches art. Or / four times Musicalisches clover / Wherein can be seen / how to justly and in Kurtzer time I. Choral and figural singing. II The Clavier and General -Bass tractiren. III. All sorts Instrumenta Greiff / and learn blow kan IV Vocaliter and Instrumentaliter compose to learn. Ulm 1697 (reprint Leipzig 1974)

Literature (selection )

  • Johannes Jehle: Daniel Speer. The creator of the first organ chorale book. In: Swabian Mercury (Stuttgart) No. 136, June 14, 1933
  • Anna Hofer: Daniel Speer imitations of, Simplicissimus ' by Grimmelshausenmuseum. PhD thesis, Vienna 1940
  • Felix Burkhardt: Daniel Speer. Schoolmaster, musician and poet, 1636-1707. In: Life in pictures Swabia and Franconia, Vol 11 Published on behalf of the historical commission for Regional Studies in Baden -Wuerttemberg by Max Miller and Robert Uhland. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1969, pp. 48-68
  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt: Daniel Speer ( 1636-1707 ). In: Personal bibliographies on the printing of the Baroque. Volume 6, Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7772-9305-9, pp. 3939-3950 (factory and bibliography)
  • Konrad Gajek: Daniel Speer's novelistic and journalistic writings. Wrocław 1988
  • Konrad Gajek: Daniel Speer - the chronicler of women uprising. In: Exhibition catalog 1688 woman protest Schorndorf 1988.
  • Stefan Jordan: Spear, George Daniel. In: New German Biography ( NDB ). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0, pp. 646 f ( digitized ).
  • Waldtraut Lewin: A guy called Lompin. Novel, 1989
  • Stephen Rose: The musician - novels of the German Baroque: new light on Bach 's world, Understanding Bach 3 (2008), 55-66 (PDF)
  • Stephen Rose: The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011. ISBN 978-1-107-00428-3
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