Johann Philipp Förtsch

Johann Philipp Foertsch ( born May 14, 1652 Wertheim, † December 14, 1732 ) was a composer, statesman and physician.

Life

Foertsch was born the son of a mayor Wertheimer. He studied medicine in Jena and in Bayreuth or Halle ( Saale) by Johann Philipp Krieger composition. He then traveled through Germany, Holland and France. 1678 he was in the Hamburg Council chapel and tenor singer in the newly opened in the same year opera at the goose market. In Hamburg Foertsch composed many operas that were performed all. 1680 he was appointed as successor of Johann Theile Kapellmeister at the court of the Duke of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp, but due to political unrest lasted this office only briefly.

1681 Foertsch received his doctorate at the University of Kiel for Dr. med, after which he worked as a physician in addition to his musical activities in Hamburg, Schleswig and Husum. When he became court physician in 1689 in Schleswig, he gave up his musical activities. In 1694 he became personal physician and Councilor of August Friedrich of Lübeck, the bishop about Eutin. After his death he took over in 1705 for a short time the government. He was still working as a doctor and counselor in Eutin and Lübeck.

Work

Stage works:

  • The most impossible thing (Luke from Bostel, by Lope de Vega, 1684)
  • The haughty, and fallen again raised Croesus (Luke from Bostel, by Nicolò Minato, 1684)
  • The Holy Eugenia, or the conversion of the city of Alexandria to Christianity ( Christian Heinrich Postel, probably after Girolamo Bartolommei, UA Hamburg 1688)
  • The bit in Christianity in the Todt resistant martyrs Polyeuctes ( Heinrich Elmenhorst, after Pierre Corneille, UA Hamburg 1688)
  • The mighty monarch of the Persians, Xerxes, in Abidus ( Christian Heinrich Postel Minato, UA Hamburg 1689)
  • Cain and Abel, or the despairing brother - murderer ( Christian Heinrich Postel, according to Michael Johansen, UA 1689)
  • The afflicted and erfreuete Cimbria ( Christian Heinrich Postel, UA Hamburg 1689)
  • The large - natured Thalestris, or Last Queen of the Amazons ( Christian Heinrich Postel, according to Gaultier de Coste, UA Hamburg 1690)
  • ANCILE romanum, which is the Roman Empire happiness Shield ( Christian Heinrich Postel, UA Hamburg 1690)
  • Bajazet and Tamerlane ( Christian Heinrich Postel, after Giulio Cesare Corradi, UA Hamburg 1690)
  • The knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancia ( Hinrich Hinsch, by Miguel de Cervantes, 1690)

Sacred Works:

  • 82 sacred concertos for singers and instruments

Instrumental works:

  • 32 Canons for 2-8 voices Christ, who art the light of day, 1680
  • Canon perpetuus to four votes on the same chorale
  • Allemande to four voices
  • Canon
  • Counterpoint studies
  • Triple fugue ( for teaching purposes )

Music Theoretical works:

  • Musicalischer Compositions treaty
  • Of the dreyfachen counterpoints
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