Christ Fürstliches Davids-Harpfen-Spiel - Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Sophie Elisabeth von 1613-1676; Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Anton Ulrich von 1633-1717 (Nuremberg Gerhard, 1667)
Hyms and devotional arias
Sophie Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Lüneburg was a German poet, composer and impressario, and by marriage Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Most of Elisabeth Sophie 's compositions are hymns or devotional arias. Some of these were published in 1651 and 1667. The one printed in 1651, Vinetum evangelicum, Evangelischer Weinberg, is believed to have been the first music published by a woman in Germany. Her stephson Anton Ulrich was a patron of the arts, a writer, an art collector and one of the main proponents of enlightened absolutism among the Brunswick dukes.
engraved frontispiece showing a burning pyre in a temple is missing
zum Spiegel und fuerbild himmel-flammender Andacht / mit ihren Arien oder Singweisen hervorgegeben
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); Poetry; Psalm; Hymn; Aria; Song; Germany; muziek_zang + bc; fermate; kwint/oktaafparallellen