Johann Wanning
Johann Wanning (also known as Johannes Wanningus, Wannigk, Wannicke or Wangnick) (1537 – 23 October 1603) was a Dutch composer,
Life
Little is known about his early years or education. He was born in
Musical works
Wanning is today most noted for being "the first Protestant composer to write cycles of de tempore motets for the whole church year,"[3] and his work inspired a number of later composers to create similar cycles of Evangelienmotetten or Spruchmotetten. He composed over 100 motets in Latin, published between 1580 and 1590.[1] They were published in two cycles, the first appearing in two parts published in 1580 and 1584 respectively (and republished in 1590) and the latter published in 1590. The first volume, Sacrae Cantiones quinque, sex, septem et octo voces compositae, et tum vivae voces, tum musicis instrumentis aptatae, contains twenty-seven motets for six voices, for saints' days and festivals. A further fifty-two motets are contained in the second volume, Sententiae insigniores quinque, sex et septem voces ex evangeliis dominicalibus excerptae atque modulis musicis ornatae, for from five to seven voices. They were to be sung on days from the first Sunday in Advent through to the twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity. They have been described as "lively" by Hans J. Moser, who praises Wanning's expressive power, and Rudolf Eller highlights the motets' solid polyphony, colourful sound, and richness of expression.[4]
Wanning was also the author of the first known musical
He wrote a second epithalamium that was published in 1596 for a bride and groom who were married in
List of published works
- Sacrae Cantiones quinque, sex, septem et octo voces compositae, et tum vivae voces, tum musicis instrumentis aptatae (Nuremberg: C. Gerlach & J. Montani, 1580)
- Sententiae insigniores quinque, sex et septem voces ex evangeliis dominicalibus excerptae atque modulis musicis ornatae (Dresden: M. Stoeckel, 1584; 2nd edition: Venice: A. Gardano, 1590)
- Sacrae Cantiones quinque, et sex voces accomodatae ad dies festos totius anni praecipuos usitatos in ecclesia (Venice: A. Gardano, 1590)
References
- ^ ISBN 978-3-87466-120-1.
- ^ Rauschning, Hermann (1931). Geschichte der Musik und Musikpflege in Danzig: Von den anfängen bis zur Auflösung der Kirchenkapellen. Kommissionsverlag der Danziger Verlags-Gesellschaft M.b.h. (P. Rosenberg). p. 33.
- ISBN 978-0-89579-686-8.
- ^ Messerli, Carlos Rudolph; Demantias, Christoph (1974). The Corona harmonica (1610) of Christoph Demantius and the gospel motet tradition. University of Iowa. p. 81.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-7329-0126-5.
- ^ Leszcyzńska, p. 154
- ^ Leszcyzńska, p. 156
- ^ Leszcyzńska, p. 155