Balthasar Resinarius
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Balthasar Resinarius (born Balthasar Harzer; c. 1483 – 12 April 1544) was a German composer, and a Lutheran bishop, one of the first Lutherans in Bohemia.[1][2]
Life and career
It is regarded as proven the Resinarius, listed by the music publisher
He died in Leipa.
After Resinarius' death, the Renaissance humanist Georg Hansch, who lived in Leipa, published several commemorative publications ("Epitaphs") in memory of him; these present him as a kind and friendly, also helpful and with a beautiful voice talented person. In particular, Hansch repeatedly praises his striking, outstanding gift as a speaker and his theological scholarship and persuasiveness – with which he had won many followers for the Protestant teaching.
Importance
As a composer, Resinarius is regarded as one of the most important representatives of the first Protestant generation. His works are only known through the publications of Georg Rhau. He was directly inspired to write these works by the latter, who also introduced him, in the preface to his
The works of Resinarius correspond in content and composition in an excellent way to the efforts to provide music for the services of the early Lutheran church.
Work
The works of Resinarius are exclusively vocal music and are based, with one exception, on publications by Georg Rhau in Wittenberg:
- 4 hymns for four voices: "Caeduntur gladiis", "Deus tuorum militum", "Jesus corona virginum" and "Urbs beata Jerusalem", 1542, as Balthasar Hartzer
- collection Responsoriorum numero octoginta de tempore et festis iuxta seriem totius anni, Libri duo. Primus de Christo, & regno eius, Doctrina, Vita, Passione, Resurrectione & Ascensione. Alter, de Sanctis, & illorum in Christum fide & Cruce for four voices, 1543, 2nd edition 1544[3]
- 30 chorale settings for four voices, 1544, including "Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein", "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ" and "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland"[3]
- Introit "Deus misericordiam" for four voices, 1545
- 3 motets for four voices: Factum est autem, In principio erat verbum and Liber generationis, 1545
- 3 verses for two voices: Eya inquit Paulus, Tradiderunt and Vigilia te ergo, 1545 (not published by Georg Rhau)
- Hymn Beatus author saeculi for four voices
- 4 other hymns for four voices.
References
- ^ ISBN 3-7618-1133-0.
- ISBN 3-451-18057-X
- ^ a b c d e Eitner, Robert (1889), "Balthasar Resinarius", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 28, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 245–246
- ^ Free scores by Balthasar Resinarius at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Further reading
- J. Haudeck: Musik und Gesänge im Leipaer Bezirke, in Heimatkunde des politischen Bezirks Böhmisch-Leipa, Leipa 1904
- W. Gosslau: Die religiöse Haltung in der Reformationsmusik, Kassel 1933
- G. Pietzsch: Zur Pflege der Musik an den deutschen Universitäten, in Archiv für Musikforschung Nr. 3, 1938, pp. 302–330; Nr. 6, 1941, pp. 23–56 and Nr. 7, 1942, pp. 154–169
- Inge-Maria Schröder: Die Responsorienvertonungen des Balthasar Resinarius, Bärenreiter, Kassel / Basel 1954
- V. H. Mattfeld: Georg Rhaw’s Publications for Vespers, Brooklyn / New York 1966
- B. M. Fox: A Liturgical-repertorial Study of Renaissance Polyphony in Bártfa Mus. Pr. 6 (a-d), National Széchényi Library, Budapest, dissertation at the University of Illinois 1977
- Irmlind Capelle: Zur Verwendung des Passionstons in den durchkomponierten Passionen des 16. Jahrhunderts, insbesondere in der "Johannes-Passion" Leonhard Lechners, in Festschrift for A. Forchert, edited by G. Allroggen and D. Altenburg, Kassel among others 1986, pp. 61–76
- K. von Fischer: Die Passion. Musik zwischen Kunst und Kirche, Kassel among others 1997.
External links
- Literature by and about Balthasar Resinarius in the German National Library catalogue
- Free scores by Balthasar Resinarius in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)