Johann Friedrich Gräfe

Johann Friedrich Gräfe (7 May 1711 – 5 or 8 February 1787) was a German civil servant and an amateur composer, whose works are still known today.

He was born in Braunschweig and baptized on 7 May 1711 in Nauen. Gräfe studied law and spent most of his life in Braunschweig, except for brief stays in Halle and Leipzig. While a dilettante of music, he may have studied under Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch and Carl Heinrich Graun. He was a Kammerrat, a member of the court of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. He was quite recognized at the time as an amateur composer. Gräfe was also a poet. His daughter Louise Gräfe married the writer Johann Arnold Ebert.

Gräfe composed several lied collections, cantatas, some instrumental pieces, and an opera (Herkules auf dem Oeta). The attribution of his works is not always certain.[1][2][3]

Stage works

Selected works

  • Sammlung verschiedener und auserlesener Oden zu welchen von den berühmtesten Meistern in der Music eigene Melodeyen verfertigt worden. (1737, 1739, 1741, 1743) 4 works in 1 volume, Hildesheim: Olms 2008 (Dokumentation zur Geschichte des deutschen Liedes 13). ISBN 978-3-487-13634-9
  • Oden und Schäfergedichte in die Musik. Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1744.
  • Sonnet auf das von Ihrer Koenigl. Hoheit der Churprinzessin zu Sachsen selbst verfertigte, in Musik gesetzte und abgesungene Pastorell Il Trionfo della fedeltà : womit zugleich eine neue Art Noten zu drucken bekannt gemachet wird. Leipzig, 1755; Facsimile Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1919.
  • Funfzig Psalmen, geistliche Oden und Lieder / zur privat und öffentlichen Andacht in Melodien mit Instrumenten gebracht. Braunschweig: Fürstl. Waysenhaus. Buchhandlung; Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1760.

References

  1. ^ Barr, Raymond A. (2001). "Gräfe, Johann Friedrich". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 10 (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 266.
  2. ^ Heussner, Horst (1964). "Gräfe, Johann Friedrich". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 6. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. p. 712. (full text online).
  3. ^ Ludwig Ferdinand Spehr (1879). "Graefe, Johann Friedrich". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 9. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. p. 557.


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