Gottfried Vopelius
Gottfried Vopelius
Genres: german, 18th century, 17th century
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About Gottfried Vopelius
Gottfried Vopelius (1645–1715) was a German Lutheran cantor and teacher whose name is inseparable from the chorale culture of Leipzig. Born near Zittau and active in Leipzig for the decisive part of his career, he became best known as the compiler of the Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch (1682), a large hymnbook that gathered and shaped the repertory sung in church and school. Preserved today as a complete early print, the book stands as Vopelius’s chief monument: a practical, authoritative snapshot of late-17th-century Lutheran devotion and its musical language, and a source that later musicians and scholars continue to mine when tracing the transmission of German chorales.
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