Georg Caspar Schürmann (c.1672-1751)
- Auff! Jauchzet, lobsinget dem König der Ehren (1724)
Performers: Marie Luise Werneburg (soprano); Verena Gropper (soprano);
David Erler (alto);
Hans Jörg Mammel (tenor); Wolf Matthias Friedrich
(bass);
Weser-Renaissance Bremen; Manfred Cordes (conductor)
Further info: Georg Caspar Schürmann (c.1672-1751)
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German composer. According to Walther, he was the son of Statius Caspar
Schürmann (?-1678), who went to Idensen in 1666. He studied music,
including voice, in his native Lower Saxony. By 1693, he went to
Hamburg, where he became a male alto at the Opera and in various
churches when he was 20; after appearing with the Hamburg Opera at the
Braunschweig court of Duke Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in
1697, the duke engaged him as solo alto to the court; was also active as
a conductor at the Opera and at the court church. After the duke sent
him to Italy for further training (1701-02?), he was loaned to the
Meiningen court as Kapellmeister and composer; in 1707 he resumed his
association with the Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel court, where he was
active as a composer and conductor for the remainder of his life.
Schurmann was a leading opera composer during the Baroque era. It is
regrettable that of the more than 30 operas, only 3 of which survived in
their entirety after their Braunschweig premieres: Heinrich der Vogler
(part I, Aug. 1, 1718; part II, Jan. 11, 1721), Die getreue Alceste
(1719), and Ludovicus Pius, oder Ludewig der Fromme (1726). He was also a
noted composer of sacred music. Georg Caspar Schürmann, together with
Johann Georg Conradi, Johann Sigismund Kusser, Reinhard Keiser and Georg
Philipp Telemann, was an outstanding contributor to the history of
German Baroque opera and he may have played a significant role in the
style’s development in Germany during the first half of the 18th
century.
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