Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl

Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl (May 11, 1694 – March 27, 1739) was a German composer and organist.

Life and career

Quehl was born in Zella, Germany, in 1694. He was a gifted musician who by the age of ten was performing in Hamburg, Amsterdam, Leyden and The Hague.[1] His teacher was Kapellmeister Christian Friedrich Witt in Gotha. By the age of twenty Quehl was working as the organist at St. Marien Cathedral in Suhl. His marriage in 1718 resulted in eight children, six of whom did not survive infancy. Johann Sebastian Bach, the Kapellmeister at the Court in Köthen at the time, was godfather to his third son. In 1730, Quehl was appointed organist and cantor at St. Nicolai in Marktbreit am Main.

From 1732 to 1733, he taught organ and composition to Johann Peter Kellner. Kellner wrote, "In the neighborhood... there was still one man who could boast that he was an excellent musician and an especially good composer. How I looked for this man. It was the organist Quehl in Suhl. His skill and other musical abilities inspired me to give it a try. The man promised to teach me and it was here my foundations of composition were made."[2]

Quehl was an organist in Nurnberg in 1734.[3] In 1735, he joined the church school service as a cantor, organist and Music Director at St. Michael in Fürth, where he remained until the end of his life.[4]

Quehl died in Fürth on 27 March 1739.

Compositions

Most of Quehl's music has yet to be discovered, and only a few manuscripts exist today. One work that has been attributed to Quehl is a tablature with 205 chorale fugues that had been stored in the Royal Library in Berlin until it was moved to avoid destruction during World War II. The manuscript is now at the Jagiellonian University library in Kraków.[5][6]

On 17 December 1730 a cantata by Quehl was performed in Marktbreit am Main. The composition was based on Psalm 84:2-4.

In 1734 Quahl completed a manuscript titled, "Der zur Beförderung Göttlicher Ehre und Aufmunterung des Geistlichen Zions abzielende Erstere Musicalische Versuch. Bestehend aus Zweyen Chorälen. Mit unterschiedenen, teils Figurirten, teils auf zwei Clavieren und obligaten Pedal, auf drei Linien eingerichteten Variationen." ("The First Musical Attempt to Promote Divine Honor and Encouragement of Spiritual Zion. For two choirs. With variations arranged on three lines, figured bass, two harpsichords and obbligato pedal"). A second, undiscovered work is mentioned in a note related to that piece.

References
  1. "Lebensläufen", St. Michael Fürth
  2. Collections of Church and School Writings, Gotha
  3. Quehl, Hieronymus Florentinus, active ([17--]). [Fugues for organ]. OCLC 57629263. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Seegers, Carl (1924), "Ableitung einer Gleichung zwischen der Zeit und dem Radiusvektor", Über die Bewegung und die Störungen der Planeten, wenn dieselben sich nach dem Weberschen elektrodynamischen Gesetz um die Sonne bewegen, Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, pp. 11–21, doi:10.1007/978-3-663-04271-6_3, ISBN 9783663030829
  5. Quehl, Hieronymus (1973). Two Chorales with Variations. Wilhelm Hansen.
  6. Wojnar, William A (1995). Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl: 205 chorale fugues transcription and commentary (Thesis). OCLC 34508991.
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