Georg Caspar Schürmann () - Auff! Jauchzet, lobsinget dem König der Ehren (1724)

★ Follow music ► Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann () Work: Auff! Jauchzet, lobsinget dem König der Ehren (1724) Performers: Marie Luise Wеrnеburg (soprano); Verena Groppеr (soprano); David Erlеr (alto); Hans Jörg Mammеl (tenor); Wolf Matthias Friеdrich (bass); Wеsеr-Renaissance Bremen; Manfred Cordеs (conductor) Auff! Jauchzet, lobsinget dem König der Ehren (1724) 1. Chorus 0:00 2. Aria 2:51 3. Chorus 5:14 4. Aria & Chorus 6:37 5. Aria, Chorus & Aria 10:45 6. Chorus 14:47 Painting: Hendrick Govaerts (1669-1720) - Allegory of the Arts HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Georg Caspar Schürmann [Schurmann, Scheuermann] (Idensen, nr Hanover, - Wolfenbüttel, 25 February 1751) German composer. According to Walther, he was the son of Statius Caspar Schürmann (?-1678), who went to Idensen in 1666. He studied music, including voice, in his native Lower Saxony. By 1693, he went to Hamburg, where he became a male alto at the Opera and in various churches when he was 20; after appearing with the Hamburg Opera at the Braunschweig court of Duke Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in 1697, the duke engaged him as solo alto to the court; was also active as a conductor at the Opera and at the court church. After the duke sent him to Italy for further training (1701-02?), he was loaned to the Meiningen court as Kapellmeister and composer; in 1707 he resumed his association with the Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel court, where he was active as a composer and conductor for the remainder of his life. Schurmann was a leading opera composer during the Baroque era. It is regrettable that of the more than 30 operas, only 3 of which survived in their entirety after their Braunschweig premieres: Heinrich der Vogler (part I, Aug. 1, 1718; part II, Jan. 11, 1721), Die getreue Alceste (1719), and Ludovicus Pius, oder Ludewig der Fromme (1726). He was also a noted composer of sacred music. Georg Caspar Schürmann, together with Johann Georg Conradi, Johann Sigismund Kusser, Reinhard Keiser and Georg Philipp Telemann, was an outstanding contributor to the history of German Baroque opera and he may have played a significant role in the style’s development in Germany during the first half of the 18th century.