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Johann Balthasar König (Composer)
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Born: January 28, 1691 - Waltershausen, Germany |
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The German composer, Johann Balthasar König, director of church music at Frankfurt am Main, is best known as. the editor of the most comprehensive Choral-book of the 18th century, Harmonischer Lieder-Schatz oder Allgemeines evangelisches Ohoral-buch (Frankfurt, 1738). It contains 1940 tunes, including those to the French Calvinistic Psalms, but the older tunes and the French Psalm-tunes have all been deprived of their original variety of rhythm, and the more modem tunes from the Freylinghausen and other hymn. books have all been simplified by the retrenchment of slurs and appoggiaturas and other superfluous ornaments. All the tunes have thus been reduced to a uniform pattern with notes of equal length, and while this simplification has been of advantage in the case of the Freylinghausen tunes it has rather spoilt the older melodies. Those tunes are only provided with figured bass. |
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Cantatas |
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Source: Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1952 Edition; Author: J.R. Milne); German Wikipedia Website |
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Use of Chorale Melodies in his works |
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Chorale Melody |
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Cantata Kommt her zu mir |
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Vater unser im Himmelreich (Rogate) Cantata for SATB, 2 Violins, Viola., Violoncello 2 Oboes., Calc., and Organ |
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Links to other Sites |
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Johann Balthasar König (Wikipedia) [German] |
Johann Balthasar König (NNKL) [German] |
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Bibliography |
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Peter Cahn : Kirchenmusik an St. Katharinen, in: Joachim Proescholdt (Hrg.), St. Katharinen zu Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main, 1981. Verlag Waldemar Kramer |
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