Salomon Franck

Salomon Franck, also Salomo Franck (* in March 1659 in Weimar; buried on June 14, 1725 ) was a German jurist and poet. Today, he is mainly characterized announced that his writings form the basis of most cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach in his Weimar period.

Life

Franck studied Law and probably also theology in Jena and was then in Zwickau, Arnstadt and Jena, before he was 1701 ( upper ) Konsistorialsekretär in Weimar. His responsibilities fell the Ducal Library and the Numismatic Collection.

By no later than 1694 he composed the cantata texts for the Weimar court, which consisted initially of Bible words and verse seals, and later from 1710 under the influence of Erdmann Neumeister took over the greater freedom nichtstrophischer madrigalischer seal. Many of his worldly Congratulations seals for the Weimar Princely House have also cantata form. In addition there are more secular cantatas of various kinds

His tomb is located on the Jacob Cemetery in Weimar.

Works

  • Madrigalische souls - like over the holy sufferings of our Saviour (1697 )
  • Cantatas for the church year 1714/1715: Protestant devotional Opffer
  • Cantatas for the church year 1715/1716: Evangelical souls - like
  • Cantatas for the church year 1716/1717: Evangelical Sundays and feast -day devotions

Johann Sebastian Bach set to music texts Franck

From Protestant devotional Opffer (1715 )

  • Prepare the way, prepare the web! ( BWV 132)
  • Step on the path of faith ( BWV 152)
  • My God, how long, how long? ( BWV 155)
  • All just by God's will ( BWV 72)
  • Everything born of God ( BWV 80a)
  • The sky laughs ( BWV 31)
  • O heilges spirit and water ( BWV 165)
  • Merciful heart of the Eternal Love ( BWV 185 )
  • Tue bill! Donnerwort ( BWV 168)
  • You, who calleth you by Christ ( BWV 164)
  • Come, sweet hour of death ( BWV 161)
  • Oh! I see itzt because I go to the wedding ( BWV 162)
  • Only each his ( BWV 163)

From Evangelical Sundays and feast -day devotions ( 1717)

  • Awake! pray! pray! keep watch! ( BWV 70a)
  • Ärgre thee, O soul, not ( BWV 186a )
  • Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life ( BWV 147a )

Other texts Franck

  • King of Heaven, would be welcome ( BWV 182)
  • Weeping, Lamenting, Fearing, Hesitating ( BWV 12)
  • Ring out, her songs, erklinget, her strings! ( BWV 172)
  • What pleases me is only the sprightly hunting ( BWV 208)
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