Nicolaus Adam Strungk

Nicolaus Adam Strungk ( baptized November 15, 1640 in Braunschweig, † September 23, 1700 in Dresden ) was a German composer and violinist of the Baroque.

Life

Nicolaus Adam Strungk was the son Dolphin Strungks. Nicolaus Adam, who has already received organ lessons from his father, studied at the University of Helmstedt. Later he learned to 1660 violin with Nathanael Schnittelbach. As a violinist Strungk appeared before the Duke of Wolfenbüttel, and to Emperor Leopold I in Vienna as a violin and piano player. In 1665 he appeared as a chamber musician in the service of John Frederick in Hanover. Born in 1672 poetess Christine Dorothea salmon was his daughter.

Strungk 1679 became director of the Hamburg Ratsmusik. 1688 he was appointed as successor of Christian Ritter Vice-Kapellmeister and chamber organist in Dresden. 1693 he took over as successor Christoph Bernhard as Kapellmeister. He left that post in 1696 to eventually become director of the local opera in Leipzig. Strungk, who suffered his entire life under financial difficulties, died a few years later "at the high fever ."

Work

Strungk composed several operas for Hamburg and Leipzig. An Instrumental music especially piano and organ works have survived. Furthermore, some sacred cantatas have survived. Operas ( selection):

• The blissful rising Sejanus ( 1678)
• The unfortunate falling Sejanus ( 1678)
• The most loving and increased by virtue and beauty of Esther ( 1680)
• David or the royal slave ( 1680)
• The three daughters Cekrops ( 1680)
• Alceste (Hamburg, 1680) (Authorship Strungks uncertain, possibly by Johann Wolfgang Franck
• Theseus (1683 )
• Semiramis (1683 )
• Florette (1683 )
• Jupiter and Alcmena (Leipzig, 1696 )
• Phocas (Leipzig, 1696 )
• Pyrrhus and Demetrius (Leipzig, 1696 )
• Orion (Leipzig, 1697 )
• Scipio and Hannibal (Leipzig, 1698 )
• Ixion (Leipzig, 1699)
• Agrippina (Leipzig, 1699)
• Erechtheus ( (Leipzig, 1700)