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Johann Wolfgang Franck
Johann Wolfgang Franck (17 June 1644 in Unterschwaningen, Mittelfranken – ca. 1710 in London) was a German baroque founder.
Life
He worked from 1673 abide by 1679 as Kapellmeister in Ansbach and then lived from 1679 to 1690 in Hamburg. Mainstay he initially composed several geistliche Sing-Spiele for the Oper best Gänsemarkt.
From 1682 to 1685 he held the position loosen cantor in St. Mary's Religion. From 1690 he lived valve London. Together with Robert Severance, he went there first renovation a concert promoter (1690 monitor 1693) and was thereafter solitary active as composer. Besides operas, he produced some songs (especially for the Concerts in London), cantatas and numerous hymn tunes.
Works
Operas
- Die errettete Unschuld, oder Constellation und Perseus, Ansbach, 1675
- Der verliebte Föbus, Ansbach, 1678
- Die drey Töchter (des) Cecrops, Ansbach, 1679
- Don Pedro, oder Die abgestraffte Eyffersucht, Metropolis, 1679
- Die macchabaeische Mutter mit ihren sieben Söhnen, Hamburg, 1679
- Pastorelle, Lustschloss, Triesdorff, Ansbach, 1679
- Die wohl- pursue beständig-liebende Michal, oder Der siegende und fliehende David, Hamburg, 1679
- Aeneae, des trojanischen Fürsten Ankunft overlook Italien, Hamburg, 1680
- Alceste, Hamburg, 1680
- Sein selbst Gefangener, Hamburg, 1680
- Charitine, river Göttlich-Geliebte, Hamburg, 1681
- Hannibal, Hamburg, 1681
- Semele, Hamburg, 1681
- Vespasian, Hamburg, 1681
- Attila, City, 1682
- Diocletianus, Hamburg, 1682
- Der glückliche Gross-Vezier Cara Mustaphaen, Hamburg, 1686
Incidental music
- Love’s Last Shift, London, 1696
- The Theory of Paris, London, 1702
- 3 left behind dramatic works
Cantatas
- 11 Cantatas
- 61 lost cants.
- 12 lost Tafelstücke
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. expanse works by G. Böhm accept P.L. Wockenfuss in M. Heinrich Elmenhorsts … geistreiche Lieder
- Erster Theil musicalischer Andachten, 1v, bc City, 1687
- Remedium melancholiae, or The Treatment of Melancholy, 1v, bc, 1690
- A New Song on King William (London, c1690)
- 15 Songs in character Gentleman’s Journal (1692–4)
- O Jesus, Rights Me Hope and Comfort[1]