Franz Joachim Burmeister (29 October 1633 – 21 April 1672) was a German Protestant hymn writer. Born in

Lüneburg Lüneburg (officially the ''Hanseatic City of Lüneburg'', German: ''Hansestadt Lüneburg'', , Low German ''Lümborg'', Latin ''Luneburgum'' or ''Lunaburgum'', Old High German ''Luneburc'', Old Saxon ''Hliuni'', Polabian ''Glain''), also calle ...

, Burmeister was the son of the church musician (''Kantor'') at St. Michaelis in

, Anton Burmeister, and his wife Dorothea, née Pörtken, and the nephew of the musicologist

Joachim Burmeister Joachim Burmeister (1564 in Lüneburg – 5 May 1629 in Rostock) was a north German composer and music theorist. He was the oldest of five children born to a beadworker and townsman of Lüneburg. His brother Anton (d. 1634) became the cantor of St ...

. In 1660, Burmeister was included by his friend

Johann Rist Johann Rist (8 March 1607 – 31 August 1667) was a German poet and dramatist best known for his hymns, which inspired musical settings and have remained in hymnals. Life Rist was born at Ottensen in Holstein-Pinneberg (today Hamburg) on 8 Marc ...

in the

Elbschwanenorden The ''Elbschwanenorden'' (Order of Elbe Swans) was a literary association of the Baroque, founded between 1656 and 1660, dissolved in 1667. It was initiated by the poet and Protestant minister Johann Rist in Wedel and is named after the situation ...

. He held a position as preacher (''Prediger'') at St. Michaelis from 1670. Many of his hymns were set to music by

Johann Rudolph Ahle Johann Rudolph Ahle (24 December 1625 – 9 July 1673) was a German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician. Biography Ahle was born in Mühlhausen, Thuringia. While not much is known of his early musical training, he attende ...

. The best-known hymn is "

Es ist genug "" ("It is enough") is a German Lutheran hymn, with text by Franz Joachim Burmeister, written in 1662. The melody, Zahn number, Zahn No. 7173, was written by Johann Rudolph Ahle who collaborated with the poet. It begins with a sequence of thre ...

", especially by its setting in Bach's cantata ''O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort'', BWV 60, which Alban Berg quoted in his

Violin Concerto A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble (customarily orchestra). Such works have been written since the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up thro ...

. Burmeister died in his hometown.

References

Literature

* * * Hans-Cord Sarnighausen: ''Die Lüneburger Kirchenmusiker und Prediger Burmeister um 1600'', in: Zeitschrift für Niederdeutsche Familienkunde, Heft 4/2002, S. 531–539.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Burmeister, Franz 17th-century German writers 17th-century German male writers German Protestant hymnwriters People from Lüneburg 1633 births 1672 deaths