Johannes Schenck

Johannes Schenck ( born June 3, 1660 in Amsterdam, † after 1712 in Dusseldorf ) was a German - Dutch composer and viol player.

Life

Johannes Schenck ( Johan Schenk) was a son of wine merchant Wijnant Schenk in Cologne and Catharina Kempius from Gladbeck and was baptized a Catholic in the Mozes en Aäronkerk. 1680 married Schenck in the Nieuwe Kerk Geertruyd Hamel. Until 1696 he lived in Amsterdam, where he worked among others with the poet Govert Bidloo.

1686 composed Schenck the first opera to a Dutch libretto - the Singspiel Opera op de Zinspreuk " Zonder Spies en Wyn, Kan geen Liefde zyn " ( "Opera by the aphorism, Without Food and wine can not ' be love ' ") with the subtitles or motto "Sine Cerere & Baccho friget Venus" ( "Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes ", corresponding translation and Others "Without food and wine without love can never thrive "). 1687 published his opera arias Schenck 28, arranged for voice and basso continuo under the title Eenige / GEZANGEN / uit de opera van / Bacchus, Ceres en Venus. / Gesteld door / Joan Schenk ( "Some songs from the opera about Bacchus, Ceres and Venus, composed by Joan Schenk ", included in op 1), from which the title of this issue based on the reconstructed version of the opera " Bacchus, Ceres and Venus " is derived; the original scores of the opera is not obtained.

1696 Schenck was appointed as a chamber musician at the court of the Count Palatine Jan Wellem, the viol was an avid player himself, according to Dusseldorf. Under their Kapellmeister Sebastiano Moratelli the Düsseldorf Court Opera experiencing at the time a flower, and so Schenck met here leading composers and musicians of his era, including George Frideric Handel, Francesco Maria Veracini, Silvius Leopold Weiss and the castrato Benedetto Baldassari. Schenck's later compositions were influenced by these encounters.

Through his publisher Estienne Roger Schenck was maintained contact to Amsterdam. In his late work, as in the Sonata collection " L'Echo du Danube ", Arcangelo Corelli, the influence is clear. Schenck's last documentary mention is found in a document of the Düsseldorf Court Secretary of 1709.

The oil painting of Constantin Netscher (1668-1723), on the John Schenck is shown with a viol, was born before 1696; it is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Musee des Beaux -Arts in Blois. After this painting Peter Schenk made ​​the Elder ( not a relative of the performer) in an undated engraving, the older musician Johannes Schenck is already showing and in some details different from its submission.

Works

  • Op 1: Secular and religious vocal music
  • Op 2: Tyd s Const - Oeffeningen ( 15 suites for viola da gamba and basso continuo, Amsterdam 1688)
  • Op 3: Il Giardino Armonico (12 sonatas for two violins, viola da gamba and basso continuo, Amsterdam 1691)
  • Op 6: Scherzi musicali ( 14 suites in 101 individual sets for viola da gamba and basso continuo ad libitum, Amsterdam 1698 )
  • Op 7: Suonate a violino e violone o cimbalo (Amsterdam 1699)
  • Op 8: Le Nymphe di Rheno ( suites and sonatas for two viols, Amsterdam 1702)
  • Opus 9: L'Echo du Danube (6 Sonatas for viola da gamba, Amsterdam 1704)
  • Opus 10: Les fantaisies bisarres de la goutte (Amsterdam 1711/12, partially lost)
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