Johann Sigismund Scholze

Johann Sigismund Scholze alias Sperontes (20 March 1705 in Lobendau bei Liegnitz (today Lubiatów near Złotoryja) 28 September 1750 in Leipzig) was a Silesian music anthologist and poet.

Life

Little is known about the life of Scholze. He was the son of a clerk, and attended school in Liegnitz until the beginning of his studies in Leipzig. In 1729 he was in Leipzig, where on 3 January, he got married with the widow from Halle, with whom he had begun a relationship. The children died young. Only one survived him. His wife died on 12 February 1738. His own funeral in poorer shape was on 30 September 1750.^[1] Stolze published under the pseudonym of Sperontes. We owe the discovery of the real identity of the poet to the musicologist Philipp Spitta, who published in 1885 a fundamental work Sperontes.^[2]

Works

Detail from the title page to Singende Muse an der Pleisse, a collection of strophic songs published in Leipzig in 1736, by Johann Sigismund Scholze.^[3]

Sperontes, singende Muse an der Pleisse, Leipzig, 1736
Das Kätzgen, ein Schäferspiel, Leipzig 1746
Die Kirms, Leipzig 1746
Das Strumpfband, Leipzig 1748
Der Frühling
Der Winter

Sources

Robert L. Marshall and Dianne M. McMullen's article in new Grove Dictionary of Music
P. Spitta: 'Sperontes "Singende Muse an der Pleisse": zur Geschichte des deutschen Hausgesanges im 18. Jahrhundert', 1885
A. Kopp: 'Gedichte von Günther und Sperontes im Volksgesang', Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, xxvii, 1895
J.W. Smeed: German Song and its Poetry, 1740–1900, 1987
S. Kross: Geschichte des deutschen Liedes, 1989)

Notes

^ Reinhard Kade: Johann Sigismund Scholze. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, S. 231–233.
^ Philipp Spitta: Sperontes' „Singende Muse an der Pleiße“, Vierteljahresschrift für Musikwissenschaft 1 1885, S. 35–126 und 350–355
^ "The Face of Bach by Teri Noel Towe". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2007. – web page on archive.org accessed 2012-10-29, the original page is no longer accessible

External links

Free scores by Johann Sigismund Scholze at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Biography at Ostdeutsche Biographie (in German)

[1] Reinhard Kade: Johann Sigismund Scholze. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, S. 231–233.

[2] Philipp Spitta: Sperontes' „Singende Muse an der Pleiße“, Vierteljahresschrift für Musikwissenschaft 1 1885, S. 35–126 und 350–355

[3] "The Face of Bach by Teri Noel Towe". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2007. – web page on archive.org accessed 2012-10-29, the original page is no longer accessible

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