Gottfried August Homilius. Thematic catalog of musical works (HoWV)
The Dresden Kreuzkantor Gottfried August Homilius belongs to the composers whose works have been rediscovered in recent years. Previously almost forgotten, today he is rightly attracting increasing attention. Celebrated by his contemporaries to be "accepted as the best church composer"; his works are disseminated in countless copies and also frequently in arrangements.
The complete, surviving works were examined for this first, exhaustive thematic catalog of the works of Gottfried August Homilius. Not only every work, but also every individual movement is provided with a music incipit and information concerning scoring, and different versions of a work or surviving versions are presented, as well as a list of all known manuscripts, editions, libretti, new editions and, whenever possible, arranged chronologically and geographically. Thus not only a reliable catalog of the works of the Dresden Kreuzkantor is presented here, but also a good deal on church music tradition and church history in the second half of the 18th century is examined and placed in perspective. The volume includes various tables and indexes which amplify the contents of the catalog and in addition important kantors and copyists from Homilius’s era are presented in a lexical appendix.
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L'auteur
Uwe Wolf
| 1961Uwe Wolf studied musicology, history, and historical ancillary science at Tübingen and Göttingen. After receiving his doctorate in 1991 he was a research assistant at the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut in Göttingen. From 2004 he worked at the Bach-Archiv Leipzig. There he directed a both research departments, was substantially responsible for the redisigning of the Bach Museum, and he developed the digital Online-Projekt Bach. Since October 2011 he has been the Chief Editor at Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart. He has taught at various universities and also belongs to the editorial boards of several complete editions. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Sujet (livre)
Gottfried August Homilius
| 1714-1785Gottfried August Homilius, the son of a pastor, was born in Rosenthal (Saxony) on 2 February 1714. In May 1735 he enrolled as a law student at Leipzig University. Likewise, it was probably at this time that Homilius was a pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach; the latter fact had been attested to by Johann Adam Hiller. Apart from Bach, Homilius also had contact with Johann Schneider, a Bach pupil and organist at the Nicolaikirche, for whom he also substituted. After unsuccesfully applying for a post as organist in Bautzen, Homilius was appointed organist at the Dresden Frauenkirche in 1742. In 1755 Homilius succeeded Theodor Christlieb Reinhold as Kreuzkantor and music director of the three main churches in Dresden, a position that he occupied until his death on 2 June 1785. Plus d'information sur la personne
Critiques
This catalog should be on the shelves of every research library. It is a well-crafted and indispensable reference work
Notes 12/2015
Das Werkverzeichnis macht neugierig auf die Werke selbst.
IFB 07/2015... In jedem Fall aber ist es Uwe Wolf mit seiner Publikation gelungen, ein den heutigen wissenschaftlichen Ansprüchen entsprechendes Werkverzeichnis zu erstellen, das in beeindruckender Gründlichkeit einen Überblick über die verstreut überlieferten Werke von Gottfried August Homilius liefert. Der Band sollte in jeder Musikbibliothek zur Verfügung stehen!
Andrea Hartmann, Forum Musikbibliothek, Jahrgang 35 Heft 2 / Juli 2014
Für jeden, der sich näher mit Homilius beschäftigt, bietet der Band jede notwendige Auskunft. Für Bibliotheken stellt der Band ein unbedingtes Muss dar.
Rainer Goede, www.kirchmusik.de , 23.02.2014