Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates

Stölzel composed Die Freuden-Ernde for the 48th birthday of Magdalena Augusta, the wife of his employer Duke Template:Nowrap (Gotha, Template:Nowrap)

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (13 January 1690 – 27 November 1749) was a German composer of the Baroque era.

Biography

Early 18th-century manuscript copy of the "Traversa" part of Melchior Hoffmann's 1707 Magnificat in A minor (BWV Anh. 21, formerly attributed to Bach): this copy was likely written by a young Stölzel.<ref name="HoffmannMagnificatRISM">Template:RISM Hoffmann, Melchior: Magnificat in a-Moll</ref>
Sondershausen Palace and Market Square
Gotha, with Schloss Friedenstein, Template:Circa

Early life

Stölzel was born in Grünstädtel in the Electorate of Saxony on 13 January 1690. His father, organist in Grünstädtel, gave him his first music education. When he was thirteen, he was sent to study in Schneeberg, where he was taught music, including thoroughbass, by cantor Christian Umlaufft, a former student of Johann Kuhnau. A few years later he was admitted to the gymnasium in Gera, where he further practiced music under Emanuel Kegel, the director of the court chapel. Some of his educators took a dim view of music, and tried to divert his attention from it: apart from engaging in poetry and oratory, Stölzel nonetheless continued to develop his interest in music.<ref name="Ehren-PfortePP342–347">Mattheson 1740</ref><ref name="MizlerObituaryB">Mizler 1754</ref><ref name="Unger2010intro">Melvin P. Unger, editor. "Introduction" pp. vii–xi of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel – German Te Deum: a setting of Martin Luther's translation. A-R Editions, 2010. Template:ISBN</ref>

In 1707 he became a student of theology in Leipzig. The city had a lot to offer from a musical point of view: its opera had been reopened shortly before, which Stölzel liked to visit. He became acquainted with Melchior Hoffmann, at the time music director of the Neukirche and conductor of the Collegium Musicum, both in succession of Georg Philipp Telemann, who had left Leipzig in 1705. Perfecting his art under Hoffmann, Stölzel also acted as his copyist, and started composing: initially Hoffmann performed these compositions as his own, Stölzel gradually coming to the open as their composer.<ref name="Ehren-PfortePP342–347" /><ref name="MizlerObituaryB" /><ref name="Unger2010intro" /><ref name="HoffmannMagnificatRISM" />

As a composer

In 1710 Stölzel went to Breslau in Silesia, where his first opera, Narcissus, on his own libretto, was performed in 1711. Returning to Halle after over two years in Silesia, he composed the operas Valeria, instigated by Johann Theile, for Naumburg, and Rosen und Dornen der Liebe for Gera. In 1713 he composed two further operas on his own librettos, Artemisia and Orion, both premiered in Naumburg.<ref name="Ehren-PfortePP342–347" /><ref name="MizlerObituaryB" /><ref name="Unger2010intro" /><ref name="NarcissusPremiere">Narcissus at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref>

Late in 1713 he travelled to Italy, where he met composers like Johann David Heinichen and Antonio Vivaldi in Venice, Francesco Gasparini in Florence and Domenico Scarlatti and Antonio Bononcini in Rome. Returning after more than a year, he spent some time in Innsbruck, and travelled over Linz to Prague where he worked for nearly three years (1715–17).<ref name="Ehren-PfortePP342–347" /><ref name="MizlerObituaryB" /><ref name="Unger2010intro" />

In 1715 the post of Kapellmeister at the court of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen became vacant. Stölzel applied, but Prince Christian William I promoted Johann Balthasar Christian Freißlich, the court organist, to Kapellmeister in 1716.<ref name="Unger2010intro" /> Court musicians such as Johann Christoph Rödiger felt disappointed with their master's choice.<ref name="Veen2005">Cantatas for Pentecost review of the 2002 recording by Johan van Veen, 2005</ref>

In Prague Stölzel premiered three more operas, several oratorios, masses, and many instrumental compositions. Stölzel was for a short time court Kapellmeister in Bayreuth (1717–18) and in Gera (1719). His opera Diomedes was premiered in 1718 in Bayreuth. Stölzel married Christiana Dorothea Knauer on 25 May 1719. They had nine sons and one daughter. Three sons died at a young age.<ref name="Ehren-PfortePP342–347" /><ref name="MizlerObituaryB" />

On 24 November 1719 Stölzel assumed the position of Kapellmeister at the court in Gotha, where he worked under the dukes Frederick II and Frederick III of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg until his death in 1749.<ref name="Courts2011p203">Owens et al. 2011/2015, p. 203</ref>

Stölzel wrote several theoretical works about music, but only one of these was published during his lifetime: a treatise on the composition of canons, of which 400 copies were printed in 1725.<ref name="Hiller1784">Hiller 1784</ref><ref name="Gerber1792">Gerber 1792</ref><ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. Practischer Beweiß wie aus einem nach dem wahren Fundamente solcher Noten-Künsteleyen gesetzten Canone perpetuo in hypo dia pente quatuor vocum viel und mancherley ... Canones perpetui à 4 zu machen seyn. S.l., 1725</ref>

In 1720 Prince Günther I succeeded his father in Sondershausen. He too regretted his father's choice for the court Kapellmeister. He asked Stölzel to provide music for the court chapel. However, Stölzel did not comply with this request until 1730, when Freißlich was leaving for Danzig (where he was appointed in 1731). Until Günther's death in 1740 Stölzel provided music for the Sondershausen court, which included four cycles of church cantatas, other sacred music, and secular music such as serenatas.<ref name="Veen2005" /><ref name="Scheitler2005">Scheitler 2005, pp. 338–345</ref>

In 1739 Stölzel became a member of Lorenz Christoph Mizler's Template:Interlanguage link. As a member of this Society he composed a cantata and wrote a treatise on the recitative, which was published as Abhandlung vom Recitativ in the 20th century.<ref name="MizlerObituaryB" /><ref>Steger 1962</ref>

Final years

The last two years of his life Stölzel suffered from ill health, becoming feeble-minded ("im Haupte schwach").<ref name="MizlerObituaryB" /> Some of Stölzel's manuscripts were sold to cover expenses.<ref name="Ahrens2009">Ahrens 2009</ref> He died 27 November 1749 in Gotha, less than 60 years old. Mizler printed Stölzel's obituary as second of three (of which Johann Sebastian Bach's was the third), in the fourth volume of his Template:Interlanguage link, the organ of the Society of Musical Sciences.<ref name="MizlerObituaryB" />

Compositions

Template:Further

Court chapel of Friedenstein Palace, where, from late 1719, most of Stölzel's sacred music was first performed
Court chapel of Sondershausen Palace

According to an 18th-century source Stölzel would have composed eight double cantata cycles.<ref name="Scheitler2005" />

Stölzel composed twelve complete annual cycles of sacred cantatas, which amounts to 1,358 cantatas. 1,215 of these are at least partially extant, 605 surviving with music.<ref name="Siegmund2007">Siegmund 2007</ref> Additionally, Stölzel set cantatas to secular texts.Template:Citation needed

Among his extant compositions are a Brockes Passion of 1725, two Christmas Oratorios, made of cantatas,<ref name="Vernier 2005">Stölzel: Christmas Oratorio - Epistle Cantatas Template:Webarchive on ArkivMusik, review of David Vernier, 2005</ref> and a Deutsche Messe (German Mass), a Lutheran Mass consisting of Kyrie and Gloria, in German, set for four-part choir, strings and basso continuo. Extant instrumental works include four concerti grossi, many sinfonias, and a concerto for oboe d'amore. He also wrote for organ and harpsichord.Template:Citation needed

His five operas, Diomedes (1718), Narcissus, Valeria, Artemisia, and Orion, have not survived. Stölzel is reputed to have composed over 18 orchestral suites alone (none survive), as well as 90 serenatas (vocal pieces performed as "table music").Template:Citation needed

Half of Stölzel's output, never engraved, is lost. Out of what had to have been thousands of compositions in Gotha, only twelve manuscripts survive there today. The archive at Schloss Sondershausen retains many of his manuscripts, found in a box behind the organ in 1870.Template:Citation needed

Reception

Stölzel enjoyed an outstanding reputation in his lifetime. Shortly after his death some of his compositions were still performed, and Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg rated him slightly above Bach in his list of prominent composers of the 18th century.<ref name="Unger2010intro" /> By the 19th century he was largely forgotten.<ref name="PölchauAMZ">Template:Interlanguage link. Article in Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung. 1832, pp. 639f.</ref> From the second half of the 20th century there was an increase of musicological research about the composer, and recordings of his work.

Contemporaries

Before he settled in Gotha for the last thirty years of his life Stölzel had already seen his music performed from Germany to Italy. His operas had been staged in several major cities in the 1710s. His sacred music was performed from Catholic Prague to the Protestant German principalities. Even after his music production became concentrated on Gotha and Sondershausen, his music was still performed outside these places. One of his operas was performed in Altenburg in 1722,<ref name="NurindirRISM">Template:RISM Nur in dir wohnt mein Ergötzen schöne Gegend stilles Land</ref> the Saitenspiel cantata cycle was performed under Johann Friedrich Fasch in Zerbst in 1724–25,Template:Sfn and the first Passion he had composed for Gotha, and reworked around 1730, was taken up in several German cities:

  • Johann Sebastian Bach performed Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld on Good Friday Template:Nowrap in Leipzig.Template:Sfn
  • In 1736 the Passion was performed as Geistliche Und Heilige Betrachtungen der Gläubigen Seele über Ihren Leidenden und Sterbenden Jesum in Rudolstadt, and in a similar version (Der Glaubigen Seele geistliche Betrachtungen Ihres leidenden Jesu) in Nürnberg.<ref name="Scheitler2005" />
Page 58r of the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, written by J. S. Bach, containing the end of Stölzel's Partia and Bach's complement to its last movement (BWV 929).

Template:Listen Bach didn't only perform the work: around 1742–43 he reworked the aria "Dein Kreuz, o Bräutgam meiner Seelen" from Die leidende und am Kreuz sterbende Liebe Jesu into Bekennen will ich seinen Namen, BWV 200.<ref>Bach Digital Work Template:BDW</ref>Template:Sfn The music of this work had originally been believed to have been Bach's own.Template:Sfn<ref>Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (1998), p. 202</ref>

Before that, Bach and his family had shown their interest in various genres of Stölzel's music:

Johann Mattheson reckoned Stölzel among "the level-headed, learned, and great music masters" of his century.<ref name="Ehren-PfortePP342–347" /> Lorenz Christoph Mizler rated Stölzel as great as Johann Sebastian Bach.Template:Citation needed

Next generation

In 1761 Friedrich Wilhelm Birnstiel published Stölzel's Enharmonische Claviersonate (enharmonic keyboard sonata) in the second volume (13th instalment) of his Template:Ill.

Georg Benda, Stölzel's immediate successor at the court in Gotha, restaged church music of his predecessor, sometimes with score revisions, until 1768: Passion settings and many cantatas such as the 1728–29 double cantata cycle (restaged in the liturgical years 1752–53, 1763–64 and 1765–66) were included in such repeat performances.<ref name="Courts2011p213">Owens et al. 2011/2015, p. 213</ref> Stölzel's legacy was however disintegrating through sales of manuscripts, which court musicians had continued after the composer's death.<ref name="Ahrens2009" /> In 1778 Benda wrote: "... Only the best works of my predecessor, which could be used even today for church music, are saved, because already a long time ago I separated them from useless junk and kept them in my own house."<ref>"Nur die besten Arbeiten meines Vorgängers, von welchen man noch izt beÿ den Kirchen-Musiken einigen Gebrauch machen könnte, sind gerettet, weil ich solche schon vor langer Zeit von dem unbrauchbaren Wuste abgesondert und eigends in meinem Hause verwahrt habe.", quoted in Hennenberg 1976, p. 22</ref>

Through Benda's neglect manuscripts of Stölzel's works in Gotha were lost. In Sondershausen Stölzel's works were copied, performed and conserved. Surprisingly Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf did not list any church cantatas by Stölzel in his catalogues of 1761, 1764 and 1770. Johann Kirnberger considered Stölzel to be one of the greatest contrapuntists, and illustrated his Die Kunst des reinen Satzes with music by Stölzel. C. P. E. Bach adopted several movements of Stölzel's Sechs geistlichen Betrachtungen des leidenden und sterbenden Jesus in his 1771 Lukas-Passion and his 1772 Johannes-Passion pasticcios. After C. P. E. Bach's death in 1788 three of Stölzel's cantata cycles were found in his legacy.Template:Sfn<ref name="Passion6">Template:RISM Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich: Passions – Passion in 6 Betrachtungen</ref><ref name="Kyrie13vRISM">Template:RISM Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich: Masses (Excerpts) – Only Kyrie</ref><ref name="BAMZ40">A. B. Marx. "2. Freie Aufsätze: Herausgabe klassischer Kirchenmusik", pp. 317–319 in Berliner Allgemeine Musikalishe Zeitung, 4th year, No. 40, 3 October 1827</ref><ref>Bach Digital Work Template:BDW and Template:BDW at Bach Digital website</ref><ref>Template:RISM Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Lukas-Passion 1771] and Template:RISM Telemann, Georg Philipp: Johannes-Passion 1772</ref><ref name="CPEvol7.1">Paul Corneilson, editor. Passion according to St. John (1772) based on a setting by Georg Philipp Telemann: incorporating music by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Gottfried August Homilius, and Johann Sebastian Bach, Vol. 7.1 in Series IV: Oratorios and passions of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's complete works. Los Altos, CA: The Packard Humanities Institute, 2007. Template:ISBN</ref><ref name="1772Mobius">Passion according to St. John : (1772) / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach; based on a setting by Georg Philipp Telemann; incorporating music by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Gottfried August Homilius, and Johann Sebastian Bach; edited by Paul Corneilson at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref>

Reference works by Johann Adam Hiller (1784) and Ernst Ludwig Gerber (early 1790s) contain biographies of Stölzel.<ref name="Hiller1784" /><ref name="Gerber1792" /> Hiller describes part of Stölzel's music production as "heard today and forgotten tomorrow": over-all light in spirit and, according to the standards of the time when these pieces originated, with pleasurable singing lines over a sparse instrumental accompaniment.<ref name="Hiller1784" /> Hiller qualifies Stölzel's choral music as full in texture and rich in harmony, and names the Canonic Mass in thirteen real voices and the German Te Deum as examples of Stölzel's accomplished style, fully mastering the composition of canons and fugues.<ref name="Hiller1784" /><ref name="Unger2010intro" /> Gerber largely repeats Hiller's biographical notes and judgement about Stölzel's music, adding descriptions of Stölzel's 1736 double cantata cycle and vocal chamber music, where the singing voice is treated as an instrumental part, in some passages rather an accompaniment than the leading voice.<ref name="Gerber1792" /> Gerber praises Stölzel for his art of composing recitatives and summarizes the content of the then still unpublished Abhandlung vom Recitative.<ref name="Gerber1792" />

Manuscript conservation and publications

Template:Interlanguage link collected manuscripts of Stölzel's music, many of these ending up in the Berlin State Library.<ref name="16cantatasRISM">Template:RISM Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich: 16 Cantatas</ref><ref name="15cantatasRISM">Template:RISM</ref> Pölchau edited Stölzel's Missa canonica for thirteen real voices for publication in 1818.<ref name="BAMZ40" /><ref>Georg Pölchau, editor. Missa canonica. Kyrie und Gloria für dreyzehn reelle Stimmen: Acht Singstimmen zwey Violinen, zwey Bratschen und Bass von Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, vormals Capellmeister in Gotha. Partitur. 2nd volume of Musikalisch classische Kunstwerke der Deutschen alter und neuer Zeit. Vienna: Steiner (later: Haslinger), 1820.</ref><ref>Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung No. 78 Template:Nowrap columns 620–622 and No. 79 Template:Nowrap columns 629–631</ref> Pölchau offered a copy of this edition to Carl Friedrich Zelter, leader of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin.<ref>Template:RISM Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich: Masses in C major, Template:RISM Missa canonica] and Template:RISM Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich: Masses in C major</ref> In 1832 Pölchau published a selection of Stölzel's choral music.<ref name="PölchauAMZ" /><ref>Template:Interlanguage link, editor. Fugetten und Fugen von Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, first volume of Siona: Auswahl classischer Chorgesänge. Zürich: Hans Georg Nägeli, 1832</ref> In the first half of the 19th century one of Stölzel's masses was copied by Johann Gottfried Schicht, and, with the orchestral part arranged for organ by Carl Ferdinand Becker, performed in Leipzig.<ref name="Kyrie-Gloria Leipzig a">Template:RISM Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich: Masses</ref> Becker also arranged some of Stölzel's music for organ solo.<ref>Template:RISM Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich: Masses (Excerpts. Arr) in a-Moll, Template:RISM Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich: Masses (Excerpts. Arr) in a-Moll and Template:RISM Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich: Masses (Excerpts. Arr) in a-Moll</ref>

The pieces from the Anna Magdalena and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach notebooks, "Bist du bei mir" and Partita di Signore Steltzeln, were published by the Bach Gesellschaft in the second half of the 19th century. Stölzel's solo cantata Die Rose bleibt der Blumen Königin was published in 1884.<ref>Robert Eitner, editor. G. H. Stölzel: Die Rose bleibt der Blumen Königin in Cantaten des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Vol. 1. Breitkopf & Härtel, 1884.</ref> Arnold Schering published Stölzel's Concerto Grosso a quattro Chori in 1907.<ref>Arnold Schering, editor. Instrumentalkonzerte deutscher Meister. Vol. 29 and 30 in Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst Erste Folge. Breitkopf & Härtel, 1907. pp. 221–272</ref> The aria BWV 200 was first published, as a composition by Johann Sebastian Bach, in 1935.<ref>Ludwig Landshoff, editor. Aria 'Bekennen will ich seinen Namen' für eine Alt-Stimme, zwei Violinen und Basso Continuo / Johann Sebastian Bach: Nach dem Autograph herausgegeben und eingerichtet – Erste Ausgabe im Bach-Jahr 1935. Edition Peters, 1935</ref> The trio sonata in F minor for 2 violins or oboes and basso continuo was published in 1937.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Helmuth Osthoff, editor. Triosonate F moll: Für 2 Violinen oder Oboen, Violoncello und Continuo. Hannover: A. Nagel, 1937</ref> In 1938 Wolfgang Schmidt-Weiss wrote a thesis about Stölzel's instrumental music, which was published as a book in 1939.<ref>Wolfgang Schmidt-Weiss. Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690 - 1749) als Instrumentalkomponist. Munich, Univ., Diss. 1938</ref><ref>Schmidt-Weiss 1939</ref>

The 1940s and 1950s saw a number of score publications:

  • In 1942 a trio sonata for flute, violin and continuo was published.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Gotthold Frotscher, editor. Sonata a 3 für Flöte (Violine, Oboe), Violine, Violoncell und Cembalo. Breitkopf & Härtel, 1942</ref>
  • In 1948 Merseburger published the cantata Aus der Tiefe rufe ich (H. 442).<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Adam Adrio, editor. Aus der Tiefe rufe ich Herr zu dir: Solokantate für Bass, zwei Violinen, Viola, Violoncello und Orgel. Merseburger, 1948. Template:OCLC</ref>
  • A Sonata for oboe, horn, violin and continuo was published around 1952.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Günter Hausswald, editor. Sonate für Oboe, Horn, Violine u. Generalbaß. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1952</ref>
  • The Concerto for Oboe, strings & continuo in D major was published in 1953, with a piano reduction by G. Müller.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; H. Töttcher, editor; G. Müller, piano reduction. Concerto for Oboe, strings & continuo, in D major. Sikorski, 1953.</ref>
  • Hans Albrecht prepared the Christmas cantata Kündlich gross ist das gottselige Geheimnis for publication in 1953, and edited the chorale and aria Lob und Dank for publication in 1954.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Hans Albrecht, editor. Weihnachtskantate Kündlich gross ist das gottselige Geheimnis für Sopran, Alt, vierstimmigen gemischten Chor, Oboe, zwei Violinen, Viola und Basso continuo. Lippstadt: Kistner & Siegel, 1953</ref><ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Hans Albrecht, editor. Lob und Dank: Choral und Arie A-dur, für Tenor, Sopran, vierstimmigen Chor, Oboe d'amore, 2 Violinen, Viola und Basso continuo. Lippstadt: Kistner & Siegel, 1954</ref>
  • A trio sonata for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord was published in 1955.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Günter Hausswald, editor. Sonate für Flöte, Violine und Cembalo. Heidelberg: Willy Müller, Süddeutscher Musikverlag, 1955 (distributed by C. F. Peters in the U.S.)</ref>
  • Around the mid-1950s Josef Bachmair edited two trio sonatas for two violins and continuo: the Sonata V and the Sonata in B-flat major.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Josef Bachmair, editor. Sonata V: Trio a 2 Violini con Continuo.</ref><ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Josef Bachmair, editor. Triosonate B-Dur: Für 2 Violinen mit Continuo. 1956</ref>
  • Around the same time Gotthold Frotscher published the trio sonatas in D major for flute, violin and continuo, and in G major for two flutes and continuo.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Gotthold Frotscher, editor. Triosonate in D-dur für Flöte, Violine und Basso continuo. Hamburg: Sikorski, 1956</ref><ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Gotthold Frotscher, editor. Triosonate für 2 Flöten und Basso continuo. Hamburg: Sikorski, 1958</ref>

The New Bach Edition republished the three Bach-related pieces in the second half of the 20th century. The Concerto for Oboe and Violin in F major was published in 1963.<ref>Friedrich Buck and Helmut Winschermann, editors. Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: Konzert F-Dur: für Oboe, Violine, Streicher u. Basso continuo Hamburg: Sikorski, 1963</ref> In the 1970s Jean Thilde published, in a series named after Maurice André, several compositions of the baroque era in an arrangement for trumpet, including, by Stölzel, the D major oboe concerto (1972),<ref>Concerto en ré majeur pour trompette & orchestre à cordes at SUDOC website</ref> the F major double concerto (in 1975 with a piano reduction of the orchestral material and in 1976 with the orchestral score),<ref>Concerto en Fa pour deux trompettes et orchestre at SUDOC website</ref><ref>Template:BNF</ref> a sonata in D major after the "Sonata V" for two violins (1976),<ref>Template:BNF</ref> a concertino in E minor (1976),<ref>Template:BNF</ref> a concerto in C (1976),<ref>Template:BNF</ref> and a concerto in B-flat (1976).<ref>Template:BNF</ref>

In 1965 Fritz Hennenberg wrote a two-volume thesis about Stölzel's cantatas.<ref>Fritz Hennenberg. Das Kantatenschaffen von Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (Vol. 1; Vol. 2 - Catalogue). Leipzig University Thesis, 1965.</ref> In 1976 an updated version of that thesis was published in one volume as Das Kantatenschaffen von Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel.<ref name="Hennenberg1976">Hennenberg 1976</ref><ref>Smallman 1978</ref> An Urtext edition of the G minor Oboe Concerto was published in 1979.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Richard Lauschmann, editor and arranger. Concerto g-moll für Oboe mit Begleitung von Streichorchester (und Continuo) oder Klavier. Frankfurt am Main: Zimmermann, 1979</ref> The cantata Ich bin beide was published in 1981.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Wolfram-Theo Freudenthal, editor; Siegfried Pritsche, continuo realisation. Ich bin beide: Kantate für Alt, Bass, vierstimmigen Chor, zwei Violinen, Viola und Basso continuo (Fagott, Violoncello, Kontrabass und Orgel). Leipzig: VEB deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1981</ref> Stölzel's O wie ist die Barmherzigkeit des Herrn so groß was published in 1989.<ref>Die Welt singt Gottes Preis at SUDOC website</ref> Two sonatas, Nos. 3 and 4 of the eight sonatas à quattro for oboe, violin, horn and basso continuo collection, were published in 1993.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Charles-David Lehrer, editor. Two sonatas à quattro: Nos. 3-4 in F major, for oboe, violin, horn and basso continuo. Monteux: Musica Rara, 1993</ref> Hofmeister published the fifth Sonata à Quattro for oboe, violin, horn and basso continuo in 2001.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. Sonata Nr. 5 à 4 für Oboe, Violine, Corno und Basso. Leipzig: F. Hofmeister, 2001</ref>

Stölzel's Ave Regina, Sind wir denn Kinder, Ehre sei Gott, and a new edition of the 1725 cantata Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis were published in 2003.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Alejandro Garri, editor; Kent Carlson, keyboard realizations. Ave Regina: motet for soprano, strings and organ. Garri Editions, 2003</ref><ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Oswald Knauer, lyrics; Brian Clark, editor. Sind wir denn Kinder: SATB, oboe d'amore, strings, and continuo, and Ehre sei Gott: SATB, oboe d'amore, strings, and continuo. Prima la musica!, 2003</ref> Stölzel's 1725 setting of the Brockes-Passion was also published in the first decade of the 21st century.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Axel Weidenfeld, Manfred Fechner and Ludger Rémy, editors. Brockes-Passion: Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus. Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag, 2010</ref> The 1772 St. John Passion pasticcio which included four movements by Stölzel was published as Vol. 7.1 in Series IV of C. P. E. Bach's complete works.<ref name="CPEvol7.1" /><ref name="1772Mobius" /> The German Te Deum was published in 2010.<ref name="Unger2010">Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer; Melvin P. Unger, editor. German Te Deum: a setting of Martin Luther's translation. A-R Editions, Inc., 2010. Template:ISBN</ref>

In the 21st century facsimiles of large portions of Stölzel's work became available on websites such as those of the Berlin State Library and the Saxon State and University Library Dresden.<ref name="StölzelIMSLP">Category:Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich at IMSLP website</ref>

Recordings

Template:See also The vocal music that was published as part of the Bach legacy is frequently recorded:

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau recorded the cantata Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu Dir, H. 442, in the early 1950s, and again, for Deutsche Grammophon, in 1965.<ref>Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Sings Baroque Arias: Historical Recordings 1952/53/54. Hänssler Classics, 2012</ref><ref>J. S. Bach: Kreuzstab-Kantate BWV 56 - Stölzel – Purcell – Gibbons. Deutsche Grammophon, 1965. Template:OCLC</ref> Erik van Nevel, conducting the Ricercar Consort, recorded this cantata in 1991.<ref>Deutsche barock Kantaten, Vol. VIII. Ricercar, 1991</ref><ref name="BCvocal">Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: Recordings of Cantatas & Other Vocal Works at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref> Günter Wand recorded the Concerto grosso a quattro chori in 1956.<ref>Eine kleine Nachtmusik at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref> Carl Schuricht's performance of the work at the Salzburger Festspiele was recorded in 1961.<ref>Symphonie no.3 at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref>

Maurice André performed the D major Oboe Concerto as a trumpet concerto, and recorded it several times, for example in the 1960s for Philips, in 1977 with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Charles Mackerras, and in 1983 with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Neville Marriner. In 1971 he recorded Stölzel's Concerto Grosso a Quatri Chori with five other trumpetists, Pierre Pierlot on the oboe and the Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra conducted by Philippe Caillard. In 1980 André recorded the Sonata in D major, reconstructed and orchestrated by Thilde after Stölzel.<ref>Maurice André - König der Trompete, Trompetenkonzerte – Trumpet Concertos and Maurice Andre spielt 29 Trompetenkonzerte at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref><ref>Maurice André Edition Volume 1 - Concertos 1 (Erato: 2564695722) at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref><ref>Concertos & cantatas at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref><ref>Maurice André plays trumpet concertos at University of Toronto Libraries website</ref>

André Bernard's recording of the D major trumpet concerto appeared in 1973.<ref>Concertos et sonate pour trompette et orchestre à cordes at SUDOC website.</ref> The Ricercar Consort recorded and released the Template:Nowrap of the Brussels Conservatory in 1988.<ref>BDX0266, Sonate e concerti per il corno da caccia at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}.</ref>

Stölzel's Brockes Passion, in a performance conducted by Ludger Rémy, was recorded in 1997.<ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: Brockes-Passion at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref>

Rémy also recorded ten (half) cantatas from the Christmas season 1736–37 in Sondershausen, released as Christmas Oratorio on two CDs:<ref name="CO1736-37">Abstracts von Aufsätzen zu Stoelzel Template:Webarchive at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref><ref>David Vernier. Stölzel Christmas Oratorio at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref>

Rémy's recordings of the 16 chamber cantatas Template:Nowrap were released on two CDs, in 2002 and 2004 respectively.<ref>Stölzel: German Chamber Cantatas Vol 1 / Rémy, Mields, Kobow and Stölzel: German Chamber Cantatas Vol 2 / Rémy, Mields, Et Al at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref>

C. P. E. Bach's 1772 Johannes-Passion pasticcio, containing some movements by Stölzel, was recorded in 2003.<ref>Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH (1714-1788): Johannes-Passion (1772) at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref><ref>Bach, Carl Phillip Emanuel: Johannes-Passion at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }} (February 2005)</ref>

Rémy's Cantatas for Pentecost CD was released in 2004, containing:<ref name="Veen2005" /><ref>Stölzel: Cantatas For Pentecost / Rémy, Mields, Et Al at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref>

  • Three double cantatas for the Pentecost season of 1737:
    1. Werdet voll Geistes
    2. Siehe da, eine Hütte
    3. Wollte Gott, dass alle das Volk
    4. Daran ist erschienen die Liebe
    5. So denn ihr, die ihr arg seid
    6. Lehre mich tun nach deinem Wohlgefallen
  • Cantata Er heisset Friedefürst for Quasimodogeniti Sunday 20 April 1732

Two CDs recorded by the Handel's Company conducted by Rainer Johannes Homburg contained the Epistle cantatas and the Gospel cantatas of the 1728 Christmas Oratorio respectively, along with a selection of other works by Stölzel:<ref name="BCvocal" />

  • Epistle Cantatas CD (released 2005):<ref name="Vernier 2005" />
    • Epistle cantatas from the 1728 Christmas Oratorio:
      1. Das Volk, so im Finstern wandelt
      2. Ich sehe den Himmel offen
      3. Wenn dein Wort offenbar wird
    • Other works included in the recording:
      • Concerto for Oboe, Strings and Basso Continuo in D major
      • Deutsche Messe
      • Cantata Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis
  • Gospel Cantatas CD (released 2007):<ref>Stölzel: Christmas Oratorio Vol 2 - Gospel Cantatas / Handel's Company at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref>
    • Te Deum
    • Gospel cantatas from the 1728 Christmas Oratorio:
      1. Euch ist heute der Heiland geboren
      2. Denen zu Zion wird ein Erlöser kommen
      3. Herr, du weissest alle Dinge
    • Cantata Gehet zu seinen Toren ein for New Year

Rémy recorded the serenatas Alles, was sonst lieblich heisset Template:Nowrap and Seid wilkommen, schöne Stunden Template:Nowrap in 2007.<ref>David Vickers. Stolzel Serenatas at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref><ref>Stölzel: Two Serenatas / Rémy, Mields, Abele, Schoch, Et Al at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref>

The first decade of the 21st century saw new recordings, and reissues of older recordings, of the Concerto grosso a quatro chori and of the Trumpet Concerto in D major.<ref>Concerto grosso voor orkest in D gr.t., "A quattro chori" and Concert voor trompet en strijkorkest in D gr.t. at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref> Lajos Lencsés recorded Stölzel's oboe concerto in G minor in 2008.<ref>Oboe Cosmopolitano / Lajos Lencsés at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }} website</ref><ref>Concert voor hobo en strijkorkest in g kl.t. at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref>

The nine Quadros (Sonatas à 4) for oboe, horn, violin and continuo were recorded in 2008.<ref name="BrusselsQuartet">Johan van Veen. Gottfried Heinrich STÖLZEL (1690 - 1749): "Quadri di Dresda e Bruxelles" at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }} (2013)</ref><ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel: Quadri di Dresden and Brussels / Epoca Barocca at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }} website</ref><ref>Quadri di Dresda e Bruxelles at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref> A recording of the version for two trumpets of the F major concerto was released in 2015.<ref>The European Baroque Trumpet at Template:Ill's website.</ref>

Chamber music for string instruments and continuo was recorded in 2009:<ref name="NeoBarock">Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: Kammermusik at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref><ref>Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: Kammermusik at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref>

  • Sonata in C minor for two violins and basso continuo
  • Sonata a 4 in G major for violin, viola, violoncello and basso continuo
  • Sonata in B flat major for two violins and basso continuo
  • Quadro in E minor for two violins, violoncello and basso continuo
  • Sonata in D major for two violins and basso continuo
  • Sonata in E minor for two violins and basso continuo
  • Quadro in G major for two violins, violoncello and basso continuo

The Partia di Signore Steltzeln has been recorded, with inclusion of Bach's Trio BWV 929, on harpsichord, piano and organ. The Enharmonische Claviersonate has been recorded on harpsichord.<ref name="NeoBarock" /><ref>Edition Bachakademie Vol 137 - Klavierbüchlein for W.F. Bach at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref><ref>BACH, J.S.: From the W.F. Bach Notebook / 5 Little Preludes at Naxos website</ref><ref>Broekert, Leen De 3 Historical Organs In Zeeland at {{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}</ref>

References

Template:Reflist

Sources

Template:Bach spurious Template:Authority control

Retrieved from "https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?title=Gottfried_Heinrich_Stölzel&oldid=692771"