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Johannes Jeep (pronounced "Yape"; also Johann or Jepp; 1581/1582 – 19 November 1644) was a German organist, choirmaster and composer.
Musica, die ganz lieblich Kunst
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Johannes Jeep (pronounced "Yape"; also Johann or Jepp; 1581/1582 – 19 November 1644) was a German organist, choirmaster and composer.
Biography
Jeep, who was born inDransfeld
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, Germany, is remembered for his choral writing. He collected his student songs in ''Studentengartlein'', the first volume published in 1607, the second volume in 1609, and both published as a single volume in 1614. He also published more than one hundred hymn
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s in the ''Hohenlohe Hymnbook'' in 1629.
He was one of the first German musicians to travel to Italy
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. In 1613, he was appointed director of music for the court of the Count of Hohenlohe
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, serving until 1625. Around 1635, he served as organist at Frankfurt Cathedral
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. In 1642, he was appointed conductor for the court of the Count of Hanau. He died in Hanau, Germany.
His best-known song is the 4-part madrigal
A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance music, Renaissance (15th–16th c.) and early Baroque music, Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The Polyphony, polyphoni ...
"Musica, die ganz lieblich Kunst" ("Music, the most lovely art").
''Ulysses''
The novelistJames Joyce
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was an accomplished tenor. In ''Ulysses
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'' ( Episode 16, "Eumaeus", 663:14-22), Joyce's autobiographical character, Stephen Dedalus, performs Jeep's spirited song "Von der Sirenen Listigkeit" ("Of the Siren's Cunning") for Leopold Bloom
Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's 1922 novel '' Ulysses''. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/ Odysseus in Homer's epic ...
, and the two men bond over its misogyny
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.
See also
* Johann Jeep from German Wikipedia.External links
Musica, die ganz lieblich Kunst
from YouTube. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jeep, Johannes 1580s births 1644 deaths People from Göttingen (district) German classical composers German Baroque composers German organists German male organists German choral conductors German male conductors (music) 17th-century classical composers German male classical composers 17th-century male musicians