Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich (1673-1731)
- Dixit Dominus à 4 (1726)
Performers: Capella Gedanensis
Further info: Music Treasures of Old Gdansk
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German composer, half-brother of Johann Balthasar Christian Freisslich.
He went as a boy, probably in about 1686-87, to Danzig, where he sang in
the choir at the Marienkirche and studied composition as a pupil of the
Kapellmeister, J.V. Meder. When in 1699 Meder had to flee from his
creditors, Freisslich succeeded him as Kapellmeister and held the post
to the end of his life, when he was succeeded by his half-brother.
During his 32 years of activity he wrote much religious music and many
secular works. The texts of his compositions, including a cycle of
church cantatas (1708–9), were printed at Danzig, but the only surviving
composition is a Dixit Dominus of 1726 (PL-GD), written in a sound
contrapuntal style. Besides Johann Balthasar Christian, two more of his
brothers (sons of a pastor, Johann Weigold Freisslich, 1619-89) were
musicians: Johann Thobias (1675-?), an organist in Salzungen, and Johann
Wigaläus (1679-?), a member of the Kapelle at the Marienkirche, Danzig,
from 1701.
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