Thomas Selle

Thomas Selle ( born March 23, 1599 Zoerbig; † July 2, 1663 in Hamburg ) was a German teacher, church musician and composer of the Baroque.

Life

Selle was educated in Leipzig, where he might have been under St. Thomas and Johann Hermann Schein Sethus Calvisius. In 1624, he began teaching at the school in Heide ( Holstein), before he became rector in 1625 and probably director of church music in Wesselburen. From 1634 Selle was a cantor in Itzehoe, from 1641 cantor at Johanneum and music director of the four main churches in Hamburg, from 1642 as a canon at St Mary's Minor also.

Under the title Opera omnia, he left the city of Hamburg with his entire musical legacy in 16 partbooks and 3 Tabulaturbänden copies of most of his sacred works. These are kept in the State and University Library Hamburg.

Selle set to music many works of Johann Rist as basso accompanied solo songs. For the celebrations of the liturgical year, he created a significant number of musical histories ( Gospels musically depicted in the style responsorialer songs ) and settings of the Passion story in the Gospel of John. He wrote the melody for the hymn " On, on, ye Christians all " (EC Württemberg 536).

Selle is equally to the early history of the German song as his histories and clearing agents for the history of the oratorio Passion of importance.

Works (selection)

  • Concertuum Latino Sacrorum 2.4. et 5 Vocibus ad Bassum Continuum concinendorum Liber Primus. Hand. ( includes 11 works )
  • Concertuum Latino Sacrorum 6.8.9.10.12.13. et 14 Vocibus ad Bassum Continuum concinendorum Liber Secundus. Hand. ( includes 15 works )
  • Concertuum Latino Sacrorum de praecipuis Festis anniversariis 2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16. et 17 Vocibus ad Bassum Continuum concinendorum Liber Tertius. Hand. ( includes 30 works)
  • Concertuum Latino Sacrorum 2.3.4.5.6.7.8. et 10 Vocibus ad Bassum Continuum concinendorum Liber Quartus. Hand. ( includes 33 works )
  • First Part Teutscher clergyman concertos, Madrigalien and motets, with 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14 and 16 votes ... 1.2.3. and 4 choirs Hand. ( includes 52 works )
  • Ander Theil Teutscher clergyman concertos, Madrigalien and motets, with 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10. and 12 votes ... to 1.2. and 3 choirs Hand. ( includes 61 works )
  • Third part Teutscher clergyman concertos, etc., in them lots of churches = psalms and songs included, with 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.18.19.20.21.22.23. Voices ... to 1.2.3.4. and 5 choirs Hand. ( includes 74 works )
  • Concertuum Binus vocibus ad Bassum continuum concinendorum Decas 1634
  • Concertuum trivocalium germanico Sacrorum pentas, 1635
  • New musicalische hard devotions ( instep ), 1655
  • St. John Passion: sine intermediis, 1641
  • Con intermediis, 1643

Expenditure

  • 6 Sacred Concertos, edited by A. Egidi, Berlin 1929
  • Passion according to St. John the Evangelist with Inter Media, edited by R. Gerber, Wolfenbüttel 1933
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