Johann Nauwach

Johann Nauwach (* 1595 in Brandenburg, † 1630 in Dresden ) was a German Baroque composer.

Life and work

From 1607 to 1612 he was a choir boy under Hans Leo Hassler in Dresden and then received at the request of Johann Georg I. a musical education in Florence and Turin, with lutenist Lorenzo Allegri, before he returned to Dresden in 1618.

Nauwach was a student of Heinrich Schütz and was lutenist in 1623 under his leadership. In the same year he was appointed Electoral chamber musician. Until 1629 he was a member of the Dresden court orchestra and composed ( after he converted to Catholicism ) as one of the first Germans of the Florentine Giulio Caccini Opernmonodie.

Works

  • Libro primo di arie passegiate a una voce per cantar e sonar nel chitarone, & altri simili istromenti Dresden, 1623
  • First Part Teütscher villanelles with 1st, 2nd and 3rd votes on the Tiorba, lute, Clavicymbel, and other instrumentalists directed Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann, 1627
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