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Wechselnote (Ger.). See Nota cambiata. Weck [Hüssler], Johann
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Wechselnote(Ger.). See Nota cambiata. Weck [Hüssler], Johann(b Freiburg, c1495; d Strasbourg, Aug 1536). German organist and composer. From 1510 he studied at Freiburg University and two years later he was appointed organist at the cathedral there. In 1512 he spent a short time in Basle where he took lessons with the organist, possibly Johannes Kotter. In March 1513 he returned to Freiburg. There he was drawn into the lively circle round the Swiss humanist Bonifacius Amerbach, whom he had probably met during his stay in Basle. Weck gave organ lessons to Amerbach and continued the latter's tablature book (CH-Bu F.IX.22, ed. in SMd, vi, 1967). The manuscript contains some dances by Weck. HANS JOACHIM MARX Wecker, Georg Caspar(b Nuremberg, bap. 2 April 1632; d Nuremberg, 20 April 1695). German organist, composer and teacher. After lessons with his father, Johann, a ‘gold spinner’, he developed so successfully under Kindermann that ‘at the age of 16 he was allowed to play the clavier in the churches’ (Doppelmayr). He was employed throughout his career as an organist in Nuremberg: from the age of 19 at St Walpurg, from three years later (1654) at the Frauenkirche, from 1658 to 1686 at Egidienkirche and from 1686 until his death at the parish church, St Sebaldus, where his successor was Johann Pachelbel. Wecker and the somewhat older Heinrich Schwemmer are important in the 17th-century teacher–pupil tradition of the Nuremberg school, stemming from Johann Staden through his pupil Kindermann to Schwemmer and Wecker and on to their pupils of the fourth generation, Nikolaus Deinl, J.B. Schütz, Maximilian Zeidler, Johann Krieger and Pachelbel. From Schwemmer they learnt singing and the rudiments of music, after which Wecker taught them keyboard instruments and composition. Other pupils of Wecker were Johann Löhner, the printer W.M. Endter, C.F. Witt and Nicolaus Vetter. Wecker clearly earned a measure of fame as an organist, for Printz (1696 edn, 225) wrote that he travelled from Vienna to Nuremberg, ‘where I heard the distinguished organist Georg Caspar Wecker’. Of Wecker’s few extant works, the most important are the five cantatas – the three manuscript ones and the two that survive from the print of 1695. The only other works are a keyboard fugue and one secular and 37 sacred strophic songs. Although Endter wrote in 1719 that Wecker ‘was always thinking about the improvement of music’ (Mattheson, 392), the extant works contain no innovations. Like most Nuremberg composers, he made little and unimaginative use of musical-rhetorical figures, was a master of concertato technique, showed a gift for writing solo songs and used neither recitative nor unprepared dissonance. WORKSprinted works published in Nuremberg unless otherwise stated vocal
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BIBLIOGRAPHYEitnerQ MatthesonGEP ZahnM W.C. Printz: Phrynis Mitilenaeus, oder Satyrischer Componist (Dresden and Leipzig, 1696); also pubd separately in 3 vols.: i–ii (Quedlinburg, 1676–7), iii (1679) J.G. Doppelmayr: Historische Nachricht von den nürnbergischen Mathematicis und Künstlern (Nuremberg, 1730) M. Seiffert: Introduction to DTB, x, Jg.vi/1 (l905/R) H.E. Samuel: The Cantata in Nuremberg during the Seventeenth Century (Ann Arbor, 1982) HAROLD E. SAMUEL Directory: New%20Grove%20Dictionnary%20Of%20Music Download 14.95 Mb. Share with your friends:
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