Georg Riedel (Altstadt Kantor)

Georg Riedel ( born June 6 1676 in Sensburg, Masuria, † February 5, 1738 in Königsberg i.Pr. ) was a German cantor and composer.

Life

Little is known about Riedel's life and work. In 1694 he enrolled at the Albertus University of Königsberg. He received his musical training at the Royal Kapellmeister Georg Berger Raddäus. Riedel dedicated to him in 1698 a birthday music whose title he " theol. et phil. stud " calls. At the coronation of Frederick I in January 1701 composed Riedel as " foreman of the students," the evening music of Königsberg student body. On May 24, 1709 came as a successor to the late Cantor Chr Stephani to the old-urban church (Königsberg ). At the same time, he was stage manager of the Pauperhauses. On October 24, 1709 married in Königsberg Anna Regina Remmerson, daughter of the goldsmith Friedrich Wilhelm Remmerson.

The cantor Helmut Kickton is a descendant of Georg Riedel.

Works

• Passion Cantata ( 1719)
• Reformation Cantata ( text by Johann Christoph Gottsched ) ( 1723)
• Gospel of Matthew Sanct (1721 ) ( setting of the entire Gospel of Matthew [ 1158 pages] )
• Psalms of David [ ... ] auff all Sundays and feast days ( 1724) ( setting of the entire Psalter [ 734 pages] )
• The witty geheimte revelation of the Evangelist Locust " (1734 ) ( setting the entire disclosure [ 710 pages] )
• Harmonic pleasures pious souls ( Kasualmusik ) [ single surviving work ] (Issue: The Legacy of German Music )
• Occasional pieces (complete list: see George Kusel, bibliography)

About delivery problem

Some years before his death gave Georg Riedel most of his compositions the archive of Pauperhauses, which later became the city of Königsberg archive. There the manuscripts survived the centuries until they were (see bibliography) rediscovered by chance in 1923 by Georg Kiisel. The works Riedel, especially the in the history of music unique monumental compositions ( setting of the entire Gospel of Matthew, the entire Psalter and the whole Revelation of St. John ), an outstanding quality has been certified by various musicologists. All the more regrettable that the whereabouts of these works to this day is still unclear is.

Although the existence of the Königsberg municipal archive was destroyed during the bombing in 1944, in all likelihood, just no longer there were the music manuscripts at this time possibly because it was already just after the discovery of compositions Riedel on an overpass in one of Königsberg libraries discussed, as the city archives did not have a storage so valuable stocks all the necessary equipment.

It is not known when and where the music yet, as all the supporting documents and notes from the time are not accessible or lost. The majority of the holdings of other libraries and archives Konigsberg emerged gradually in various places in the former Soviet Union. Thus, a considerable part of the Königsberg books in Vilnius was discovered.

Discography

• Funeral Cantatas ( Telemann, Boxberg, Riedel, stream) ( Ricercar Consort ), 1990, Ricercar RIC 079 061 ( reissued in 2003 as RIC 224)