Johann Wolfgang Franck
Johann Wolfgang Franck (17 June 1644 in Unterschwaningen, Mittelfranken – c. 1710 in London) was a German baroque composer.
Johann Wolfgang Franck
Text: Karl Wilhelm Osterwald (1820-1887) · Jugendharfe: Liederbuch für Christliche Vereine, Kirchenchöre, und Sonntagsschulen.Buffalo NY 1894, S. 39 · Public domain
- Born
- 1644 · Unterschwaningen.
- Died
- 1710 · London.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- composer
- Movements
- Baroque music
- Languages
- German
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Johann Wolfgang Franck (17 June 1644 in Unterschwaningen, Mittelfranken – c. 1710 in London) was a German baroque composer.
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Life
Life
He worked from 1673 to 1679 as Kapellmeister in Ansbach and then lived from 1679 to 1690 in Hamburg. Here he initially composed several geistliche Sing-Spiele for the Oper am Gänsemarkt. From 1682 to 1685 he held the position of cantor in St. Mary's Cathedral. From 1690 he lived in London. Together with Robert King, he went there first as a concert promoter (1690 to 1693) and was thereafter only active as composer. Besides operas, he produced some songs (especially for the Concerts in London), cantatas and numerous hymn tunes.
Operas
Operas
• Die errettete Unschuld, oder Andromeda und Perseus, Ansbach, 1675 • Der verliebte Föbus, Ansbach, 1678 • Die drey Töchter (des) Cecrops, Ansbach, 1679 • Don Pedro, oder Die abgestraffte Eyffersucht, Hamburg, 1679 • Die macchabaeische Mutter mit ihren sieben Söhnen, Hamburg, 1679 • Pastorelle, Lustschloss, Triesdorff, Ansbach, 1679 • Die wohl- und beständig-liebende Michal, oder Der siegende und fliehende David, Hamburg, 1679 • Aeneae, des trojanischen Fürsten Ankunft in Italien, Hamburg, 1680 • Alceste, Hamburg, 1680 • Sein selbst Gefangener, Hamburg, 1680 • Charitine, oder Göttlich-Geliebte, Hamburg, 1681 • Hannibal, Hamburg, 1681 • Semele, Hamburg, 1681 • Vespasian, Hamburg, 1681 • Attila, Hamburg, 1682 • Diocletianus, Hamburg, 1682 • Der glückliche Gross-Vezier Cara Mustaphaen, Hamburg, 1686
Incidental music
Incidental music
• Love’s Last Shift, London, 1696 • The Judgment of Paris, London, 1702 • 3 lost dramatic works
Cantatas
Cantatas
• 11 Cantatas • 61 lost cants. • 12 lost Tafelstücke
Sacred and secular songs
Sacred and secular songs
• Passionsgedanken (lost) • Geistliche Lieder, 2vv, opt. bc Hamburg, 1681, repr. in Geistliches Gesangbuch • M. Heinrich Elmenhorsts besungene Vorfallungen, 1v, bc Hamburg, 1682, repr. in Geistliches Gesangbuch • Geistliches Gesangbuch, 1v, bc Hamburg, 1685, repr. with works by G. Böhm and P.L. Wockenfuss in M. Heinrich Elmenhorsts … geistreiche Lieder • Erster Theil musicalischer Andachten, 1v, bc Hamburg, 1687 • Remedium melancholiae, or The Remedy of Melancholy, 1v, bc, 1690 • A New Song on King William (London, c1690) • 15 Songs in the Gentleman’s Journal (1692–4) • O Jesus, Grant Me Hope and Comfort
Instrumental
Instrumental
• 6 2vl sonatas, lost
Wo hältst du dich, du Held, so lange. Die Melodie wurde im 19. Jahrhundert mit dem Text O du mein Trost und süßes Hoffen bekannt.
Text: Heinrich Elmenhorst · 'M. 'Henrich Elmenhorsts Geist-reiche Lieder. Lüneburg 1700, S. 7-8
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Unterschwaningen.
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London.
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- 1.Dictionnaire de la musique. Bordas. 1986.
- 2.O Jesus, Grant Me Hope and Comfort, YouTube
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Johann Wolfgang Franck: Hamburger Opernarien in szenischen Kontext. 1988.
- Dictionnaire de la musique. Bordas. 1986.
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