Johann Sigismund Scholze alias Sperontes (20 March 1705 in Lobendau bei Liegnitz (today Lubiatów near Złotoryja) 28 September 1750 in Leipzig) was a Silesian music anthologist and poet.

Life

Little is known about the life of Scholze. He was the son of a clerk, and attended school in Liegnitz until the beginning of his studies in Leipzig. In 1729 he was in Leipzig, where on 3 January, he got married with the widow from Halle, with whom he had begun a relationship. The children died young. Only one survived him. His wife died on 12 February 1738. His own funeral in poorer shape was on 30 September 1750.[1] Stolze published under the pseudonym of Sperontes. We owe the discovery of the real identity of the poet to the musicologist Philipp Spitta, who published in 1885 a fundamental work Sperontes.[2]

Works

Detail from the title page to Singende Muse an der Pleisse, a collection of strophic songs published in Leipzig in 1736, by Johann Sigismund Scholze.[3]

Sources

Notes

  1. ^ Reinhard Kade: Johann Sigismund Scholze. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, S. 231–233.
  2. ^ Philipp Spitta: Sperontes' „Singende Muse an der Pleiße“, Vierteljahresschrift für Musikwissenschaft 1 1885, S. 35–126 und 350–355
  3. ^ "The Face of Bach by Teri Noel Towe". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2007. – web page on archive.org accessed 2012-10-29, the original page is no longer accessible

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