Johann Philipp Förtsch (14 May 1652 - 14 December 1732) was a German baroque composer, statesman and doctor.

Life

Förtsch was born in Wertheim and possibly received his musical education from

Johann Philipp Krieger Johann Philipp Krieger (also ''Kriger'', ''Krüger'', ''Krugl'', and ''Giovanni Filippo Kriegher''; baptised 27 February 1649; died 7 February 1725) was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the elder brother of Johann Krieger. Life Ea ...

. Moving to Hamburg in 1674 to write librettos, he then became in the 1680s one of the main composers in the heyday of the

Oper am Gänsemarkt The Oper am Gänsemarkt was a theatre in Hamburg, Germany, built in 1678 after plans of Girolamo Sartorio at the Gänsemarkt square. It was the first public opera house to be established in Germany: not a court opera, as in many other towns. E ...

. In later life he returned to medicine.

Works

Operas (all lost) * Das unmöglichste Ding (Lukas von Bostel, after Lope de Vega, 1684) * Der hochmüthige, gestürzte und wieder erhabene Crösus (Lukas von Bostel, after

Nicolò Minato Count Nicolò Minato (b. Bergamo, ca. 1627; d. Vienna, 28 February 1698) was an Italian poet, librettist and impresario. His career can be divided into two parts: the years he spent at Venice, from 1650 to 1669, and the years at Vienna, from 1669 un ...

, 1684) * Der Grosse Alexander in Sidon (

Christian Heinrich Postel Christian Heinrich Postel (11 October 1658 – 22 March 1705) was a German jurist, epic poet and opera librettist, who wrote 28 libretti for the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg: set by composers such as Johann Philipp Förtsch, Reinhard Keiser and ...

, after

Aurelio Aureli Aurelio Aureli (Venice, before 1652 – id. after 1708) was an Italian librettist. Life Little is known about Aureli's life. He began his operatic career in 1652 with ''L'Erginda''. Until 1687, he worked as a librettist mainly in Venice, excep ...

, Hamburg 1688) * Die Heilige Eugenia, or the Conversion of Alexandria to Christianity (Christian Heinrich Postel, probably after Girolamo Bartolommei, Hamburg 1688) * Der im Christenthum biß in den Todt beständige Märtyrer Polyeuctes (Heinrich Elmenhorst, after Pierre Corneille, Hamburg 1688) * Der mächtige Monarch der Perser, Xerxes, in Abidus (Christian Heinrich Postel after

, UA Hamburg 1689) * Cain und Abel, oder der verzweifelnde Bruder-Mörder (Christian Heinrich Postel, after Michael Johansen, 1689) * Die betrübte und erfreuete Cimbria (Christian Heinrich Postel, UA Hamburg 1689) * Die Groß-Müthige Thalestris, oder Letzte Königin der Amazonen (Christian Heinrich Postel, after Gaultier de Coste, Hamburg 1690) * Ancile romanum, das ist des Römischen Reichs Glücks-Schild (Christian Heinrich Postel, Hamburg 1690) * Bajazeth und Tamerlan (Christian Heinrich Postel, after

Giulio Cesare Corradi Giulio Cesare Corradi (Parma, c.1650 - Venice, 1701 or 1702Eleanor Selfridge-Field ''A new chronology of Venetian opera and related genres, 1660-1760'' p252 footnote 63 "opera postuma") was an Italian opera librettist. No biographical information e ...

, UA Hamburg 1690) * Der irrende Ritter Don Quixotte de la Mancia (Hinrich Hinsch, after

Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best kno ...

, 1690) 82 "geistliche Konzerte" (surviving) including: * Du Heiden Trost 8:07on the Annunciation to Mary * Kommt, lasset uns gehen gen Bethlehem 6:42on the shepherds * Wer Jesum liebt 9:35* Herr, wie lange wilstu mein so gar vergessen? 6:13Psalm 13 * Die Wunder sind zu groß 6:18on

John the Baptist John the Baptist or , , or , ;Wetterau, Bruce. ''World history''. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1994. syc, ܝܘܿܚܲܢܵܢ ܡܲܥܡܕ݂ܵܢܵܐ, Yoḥanān Maʿmḏānā; he, יוחנן המטביל, Yohanān HaMatbil; la, Ioannes Bapti ...

* Aus der Tiefen 8:04Psalm 130 * Ihr Sünder, tretet bald herzu 8:54on the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican * Wohl dem, der nicht wandelt im Rat der Gottlosen 2:50Psalm 1 * Mensch, was du trust 2:20on the

Rich man and Lazarus The rich man and Lazarus (also called the parable of Dives and Lazarus or Lazarus and Dives) is a parable of Jesus from the 16th chapter of the Gospel of Luke. Speaking to his disciples and some Pharisees, Jesus tells of an unnamed rich man a ...

Instrumental works * 32 Canons on Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, 1680 * Canon perpetuus a 4 on the same chorale * Allemande a 4 * Canons * Counterpoint studies * Triple fugue Theoretical publications * Musicalischer Compositions Tractat * Von den dreyfachen Contrapunkten

Selected Discography

* Dialogs, Psalms & Sacred Concertos . La Capella Ducale; Musica Fiata dir.

Roland Wilson (conductor) Roland Wilson (born 1956 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England) is a British cornett player, and conductor based in Germany. Roland Wilson originally studied trumpet at the Royal College of Music, London, then specializing in the baroque cornett. Afte ...

rec. live, 26 October 2007 CPO 777369-2 9:09re
Review
/ref> * Sacred works, "Ich freue mich im Herrn" Monika Mauch, Barbara Bübl, Alex Potter,

Hans Jörg Mammel Hans Jörg Mammel (born in Stuttgart) is a German tenor in opera and concert. Mammel received first musical training as a member of the boys' choir Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben. After aborted legal studies, he studied at the Hochschule für M ...

Markus Flaig Markus Flaig (born 1971) is a German bass-baritone who has focused on concerts and recordings of sacred music. Career Markus Flaig was born in Horb am Neckar. He studied sacred music and school music, then voice with Beata Heuer-Christen in F ...

L'arpa festante is a German chamber orchestra, specializing in the revival and performance of unknown works, especially from the Baroque era. It was established in Munich in 1983 by Michi Gaigg, who also led the ensemble as concertmaster until 1995. The ensemble ...

, Rien Voskuilen.

Carus-Verlag Carus-Verlag is a German music publisher founded in 1972 and based in Stuttgart. Carus was founded by choral conductor Günter Graulich and his wife Waltraud with an emphasis on choral repertoire. The catalogue currently includes more than 26,00 ...

References

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