Erasmus Widmann

Erasmus Widmann ( born September 15, 1572 Schwäbisch Hall, † October 31, 1634 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber ) was a German organist and composer.

Life

Already in the Latin school Widmann received a good musical education under John Crusius. In 1589 he enrolled at the University of Tübingen and in the following year as baccalaurius from. In 1595 he worked in the iron ore mining town (Styria ) as an organist, from 1596 to 1598 then in Graz. As part of the Counter-Reformation and the expulsion of Protestants but he had the land, among others leave the Styria together with Johannes Kepler and Veit Bach and returned to Schwäbisch Hall. Here he took a job as a cantor and Lateinschulpräzeptor. From 1602 he served as conductor and organist of Count Wolfgang of Hohenlohe -Langenburg in Weikersheim, 1607 he was relieved entirely from his teaching duties and was responsible solely for the court orchestra. Besides music, organization, he wrote texts, comedy and original songs that appeared among others in the musical Kurtz Because the pressure. After the death of Count Wolfgang in 1610, his successor, Georg Friedrich demanded by Widmann, that he again dedicating Also the teaching. This unsatisfied Widmann was looking for a new job and was in 1613 as preceptor and cantor at the Gymnasium in Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Here he wrote his musical mirror of virtue ( 1613 ) as well as the continuation and expansion of the New Musical Kurtz Weil ( 1623). Since 1627 Widmann referred to himself in his publications as " poet laureate " ( Laureate Caesareus ). 1628 takes office, the former Assistant Cantor Sebastian Stüx.

1629 wrote Widmann - in response to the horrors of the Thirty Years' War - his Piorum suspiria. After his wife and a daughter he himself died in October 1634 of the plague, his son Georg Friedrich ( born March 8, 1603) took over his position as organist of St. Jacob.

The Erasmus Widmann High School in Schwäbisch Hall is named after him.

Works

  • Spiritual psalms and songs, 1604
  • First Part New Teutonic Gesänglein with gantz new Possirigen and Kurt Two leagues texts, 1606
  • The musical Kurzweil ( 1611), published by C. Ammer Hofius Book, 2012 The geese
  • The flea
  • Mice song
  • O Musica, lovely art
  • Vinum a gift
  • XI:. Lord, what is man ( SSATTB )
  • XIII:. The Lord shall preserve thee ( SSATTB )
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