Jacob Paix
Jacob Paix
Person from Germany
Genres: german, Classical, 16th century, renaissance, bavarian
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About Jacob Paix
Jacob Paix , (* 1556 in Augsburg ; † approx. 1623 (?) Probably in Hilpoltstein) was a German organist, organ builder, conductor, composer and editor. He became known as a collector of his own and especially foreign music. Jacob Paix was born in Augsburg in 1556 , where his father was employed as an organist in St. Anna. The son received his musical education from his father. In 1576, young married, Jacob Paix was appointed organist in the parish church in Lauingen an der Donau . Here he developed a rich activity as a composer and editor, especially in collaboration with the Palatine printer Leonhard Reinmichel. Paix's relationships with Caspar Sturm, the builder of the Ulm Cathedral organ, show, along with other sources, that Paix from Lauingen also worked as an organ builder. Here he came into contact with the Palatine high school illustrious . This emerges from a petition dated August 6, 1600 to Prince August, the son of Count Palatine Philipp Ludwig : " ch my wicked bey d Schuln alhie also do [...]". At the same time there is evidence of a free table for Jacob Paix at the grammar school illustrious . It is a mistake to say that Paix, as a succentor (subcantor), received the third teaching post at the Palatine high school illustrious . The possible source for this relates to Paixen's son, Jacob Paix the Younger (1578–1634). He was the oldest of ten children who were baptized by the couple Paix in Lauingen. Several times Paix was forced to ask the council of Lauingen and Count Palatine August zu Neuburg for money and natural produce for himself and his large family, "[T] he otherwise this winter, with the low salary and the very heavy cost, I will die of hunger got to [...]". In 1601 he got a better paid job as a Protestant court organist in Neuburg an der Donau , the residence of the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg . Here he was also responsible for figural music , headed the Palatine instrumental band and also performed chancellery services. Count Palatine Wolfgang Wilhelm converted to Catholicism in 1613 for political reasons, among other things. On this and on a lost source from 1623, Alfred Einstein based his opinion on Italian musicians at the court of the Wittelsbachers in Neuburg (1907/1908), Paix, who was steadfastly attached to Lutheranism and probably no longer musically the now Italian musical taste of the dukes had to leave Neuburg. He had looked for a Protestant area, probably ended up in Hilpoltstein and died there in 1623 . This town had to as part of the Counter-Reformation from Become Catholic again in 1627 . The Palatine sideline residing in Hilpoltstein remained Protestant even after 1627 - with it the servants, to whom Jacob Paix possibly belonged. Jacob Paix himself is not attested for Hilpoltstein. His son Johann Christoph Paix (1603–1645), however, entered the service of the Hilpoltstein Count Palatine Johann Friedrich as Secretarius on June 1, 1631, after Jacob Paixen's presumed death . His activities in Hilpoltstein cannot be used as indirect evidence of Jacob Paixen's stay in Hilpoltstein. The latest research could neither confirm nor falsify Paixen's stay and death in Hilpoltstein. The latest source from 1617 does not even reveal whether Jacob Paix was still alive after 1616.
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