Melchior Hoffmann (c.1679-1715) - Meine Seele rühmt und preist
(previously attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach as BWV 189)
Performers: Raphаël Höhn (tenor); Nеumеyer Consort; Felix Kοch (conductor)
Further info: Meine Seele rühmt und preist
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German composer and organist. He received his musical training from
Johann Christoph Schmidt when he was choirboy in the Dresden Hofkapelle.
In 1702, he settled in Leipzig and enrolled at the university to study
law. He also joined the student collegium musicum founded by Georg
Philipp Telemann. When Telemann left Leipzig in June 1705, he succeeded
him as organist and music director of the Neukirche, and took over as
director of Telemann’s collegium musicum. He was also conductor of the
Leipzig civic opera for which he wrote a number of works. In 1709 he met
the violinist and composer Johann Georg Pisendel, who became leader of
the orchestra of Hoffmann’s collegium. At this time the ensemble
consisted of 50 to 60 musicians and had won fame and recognition beyond
the Leipzig area. He seems to have visited England between 1709 and
1710, but no details are known. In 1713 he applied, along with Johann
Sebastian Bach and three other candidates, to succeed Friedrich Wilhelm
Zachow as organist at the Liebfrauenkirche in Halle. When Bach
eventually declined the appointment on 19 March 1714 the Halle
consistory offered it to Hoffmann, but although he officially accepted
the post he never took up his duties there. On 9 September 1714 he
married Margaretha Elisabeth Philipp and in the same month became one of
the few Leipzig musicians of the time to be granted citizenship. He had
been suffering from a serious illness since 1713 and died on the
evening of 6 October 1715, aged only 36. As a composer, he was highly
regarded during his life and Charles Burney stated as 'one of the finest
composers of the first half of the 18th century'.
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