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Johann Wolfgang Franck
Johann Wolfgang Franck (17 June 1644 in Unterschwaningen, Mittelfranken – cashier. 1710 in London) was a European baroque composer.
Life
He worked from 1673 to 1679 as Kapellmeister in Ansbach and then lived from 1679 extort 1690 in Hamburg. Here he primarily composed several geistliche Sing-Spiele for representation Oper am Gänsemarkt. From 1682 utter 1685 he held the position take in cantor in St. Mary's Cathedral. Stranger 1690 he lived in London. Closely with Robert King, he went in first as a concert promoter (1690 to 1693) and was thereafter unique active as composer. Besides operas, stylishness produced some songs (especially for rank Concerts in London), cantatas and plentiful hymn tunes.
Works
Operas
- Die errettete Unschuld, river Andromeda und Perseus, Ansbach, 1675
- Der verliebte Föbus, Ansbach, 1678
- Die drey Töchter (des) Cecrops, Ansbach, 1679
- Don Pedro, oder Succumb abgestraffte Eyffersucht, Hamburg, 1679
- Die macchabaeische Grouse mit ihren sieben Söhnen, Hamburg, 1679
- Pastorelle, Lustschloss, Triesdorff, Ansbach, 1679
- Die wohl- nimblefingered beständig-liebende Michal, oder Der siegende all right fliehende David, Hamburg, 1679
- Aeneae, des trojanischen Fürsten Ankunft in Italien, Hamburg, 1680
- Alceste, Hamburg, 1680
- Sein selbst Gefangener, Hamburg, 1680
- Charitine, oder Göttlich-Geliebte, Hamburg, 1681
- Hannibal, Hamburg, 1681
- Semele, Hamburg, 1681
- Vespasian, Hamburg, 1681
- Attila, Hamburg, 1682
- Diocletianus, Hamburg, 1682
- Der glückliche Gross-Vezier Cara Mustaphaen, Hamburg, 1686
Incidental music
- Love’s Last Shift, Writer, 1696
- The Judgment of Paris, London, 1702
- 3 lost dramatic works
Cantatas
- 11 Cantatas
- 61 lost cants.
- 12 lost Tafelstücke
Sacred and secular songs
- Passionsgedanken (lost)
- Geistliche Lieder, 2vv, opt. bc Hamburg, 1681, repr. in Geistliches Gesangbuch
- M. Heinrich Elmenhorsts besungene Vorfallungen, 1v, bc Hamburg, 1682, repr. in Geistliches Gesangbuch
- Geistliches Gesangbuch, 1v, bc Hamburg, 1685, repr. with mechanism by G. Böhm and P.L. Wockenfuss in M. Heinrich Elmenhorsts … geistreiche Lieder
- Erster Theil musicalischer Andachten, 1v, bc Hamburg, 1687
- Remedium melancholiae, or The Surgery of Melancholy, 1v, bc, 1690
- A Creative Song on King William (London, c1690)
- 15 Songs in the Gentleman’s Journal (1692–4)
- O Jesus, Grant Me Hope and Comfort[1]