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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 in
Dransfeld
Dransfeld is a town in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 12 km west of Göttingen.
Dransfeld is also the seat of the ''Samtgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Dransfeld.
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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
A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification. The word ''hy ...
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 novelist
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
was an accomplished tenor. In ''
Ulysses
Ulysses is one form of the Roman name for Odysseus, a hero in ancient Greek literature.
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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
Misogyny () is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women. It is a form of sexism that is used to keep women at a lower social status than men, thus maintaining the societal roles of patriarchy. Misogyny has been widely practice ...
.
See also
*
Johann Jeep from
German Wikipedia.
External links
Musica, die ganz lieblich Kunstfrom YouTube.
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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