Constantin Christian Dedekind
Constantin Christian Dedekind (2 April 1628 – 1715) was a German poet, dramatist, librettist, composer and bass singer of the
Baroque era
.
Biography
Dedekind was born in
Poet Laureate). A few years later Dedekind became a member of the Elbschwanenorden
(Order of Elbe Swans), Rist's poetical society.
He also pursued a musical career. From 1654 he was a
David Schirmer
.
His 1657 songbook Aelbianische Musen-Lust was a large collection of musical settings of German
libretti and texts for cantatas.[5] He counts as one of the most important German artists of his time in sacred drama. His significance in that field was emphasised by the Nuremberg poet Sigmund von Birken
in his Teutschen Rede-bind- und Dicht-Kunst (1679). He and Dedekind exchanged correspondence for many years.
In 1680 the outbreak of plague caused Dedekind to flee Dresden for Meissen. In his last years he composed much less; his late work was almost entirely sacred poetry.
He was married first to Anna Elisabeth Müller and secondly to Maria Dorothea Weber. Altogether there were five children. Dedekind died in Dresden and was buried on 2 September 1715.
Works
- Die Aelbianische Musen-Lust (1657 Dresden)
- Davidische Herz-Lust, das ist Singender Harfen-Klang (1669 Nuremberg)
- Neue geistliche Schauspiele (1670 Stuttgart)
- Musicalischer Jahrgang und Vesper-Gesang (1673/74)
- Heilige Arbeit über Freud und Leid der alten und neuen Zeit (1676 Dresden)
References
Sources
- Aikin, Judith P. (2003). "Constantin Christian Dedekind: Neue geistliche Schauspiele 1670". Daphnis Zeitschrift für Mittlere Deutsche Literature und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit (1400–1750). 32: 371–373.
- Buelow, George J (2004). A History of Baroque Music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34365-8.
- Harper, Anthony J (2003). German Secular Song-books of the Mid-Seventeenth Century. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate. ISBN 0-7546-0642-2.
- Spagnoli, Gina (1993). "Dresden at the time of Heinrich Schütz". In Price, Curtis (ed.). The Early Baroque Era. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan. pp. 164–184. ISBN 0-333-51600-1.
- Sadie, Julie Anne (1998). "Dedekind, Constantin Christian". Companion to Baroque Music. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 196. ISBN 0-520-21414-5.
External links
- Free scores by Constantin Christian Dedekind in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Free scores by Constantin Christian Dedekind at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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