Samuel Voelckel
Samuel Voelckel
Person from Germany
Genres: renaissance music, german, 17th century, medieval classical music
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About Samuel Voelckel
Samuel Voelckel , also Samuel Völckel (* 1564 (determined) in Königsberg (Prussia) ; buried on April 18, 1621 in Bayreuth) was a German singer, instrumentalist (violin), composer and for many years Kapellmeister in the Principality of Bayreuth under Margrave Christian. There are hardly any sources about Voelckel's date of birth, origin and education. Whether his place of birth is Königsberg (Prussia) or Königsberg in Franconia is discussed in the literature, but the addition Regiom. Bor. behind his name - one follows Robert Eitner - in the dedication of his Newe teutsche secular little songs from 1613 to the Bayreuth Margrave Christian point to the Prussian Königsberg ( Borussia ). From 1583 to 1586 he was first recorded as a musician (instrumentalist) in the margravial court orchestra in Ansbach. Since the Ansbach court chapel from 1578 to 1586 under theAnsbacher Margrave Georg Friedrich I , the administrator of Prussia, was stationed in Königsberg, which speaks for Prussia as his native country, because according to Günther Schmidt he had joined the chapel there in 1583. Due to the determined year of his birth, 1664, he was at an age when his training as a musician can be regarded as completed. In 1587, after moving to Ansbach with the chapel, he married. In 1593 his son Christoph Theodorus was baptized, godfather being Teodoro Riccio , the Ansbach conductor. In 1601 Voelckel was named "Vicekapellmeister" at the baptism of a daughter and appeared in the Ansbach church book for the last time in 1602. His employer up to that point, Margrave Georg Friedrich I, was also the administrator of the Duchy of Prussia and Margrave of the two principalities of Brandenburg-Ansbach and -Kulmbach. The family connections of his wife Sophie von Braunschweig-Lüneburg from the House of Braunschweig-Lüneburg could explain Voelckel's frequent changes of location as a musician between 1591 and around 1600: in 1591 Voelckel is said to have been a musician in the court orchestra of the Landgrave of Hesse in Marburg, from 1593 to 1594 he was a member of the ducal-Brunswick court orchestra in Wolfenbüttel . He then worked in the court chapel of Landgrave Moritz in Kassel until 1596. In this year (1596) he moved as a musician (back) to Marburg in the court orchestra of Ludwig IV. His activity in Brandenburg-Kulmbach-Bayreuth under the new Margrave Christian (from 1603) was the longest of all his commitments. In 1604 he was probably a violinist - this is suggested by archival evidence without naming his name - together with the princely court organist Johann Staden at the wedding celebrations of the Bayreuth Margrave Christian . However, there is no source as to whether he started his service in Bayreuth with it. The court moved in 1604 from the Plassenburg near Kulmbachto Bayreuth, but had to be moved back to the Plassenburg after the Bayreuth city fire in 1605 (until 1610). When one of Voelckel's daughters married the Bayreuth town church organist Hieronymus Schaffhirt in 1612, he must have been resident in Bayreuth for a long time. In 1613 Kapellmeister Voelckel is certainly to be registered at the Bayreuth court: this is suggested by the Nuremberg choral publication Newe teutsche weltliche Gesänglein dedicated to his employer . On April 18, 1621 Voelckel was buried in Bayreuth, according to the death register of the town church 1619-1628 ; the entry Kapellmeister 57 year gives his (determined) year of birth 1564. With Samuel Voelckel the first Bayreuth Kapellmeister of the Margravial Bayreuthische Hofkapelle had died.
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