Jeremiah Dencke

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Jeremiah Dencke was born October 2, 1725, in Langenbielau, Silesia and died May 28, 1795, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He joined the Moravian Congregation at Gnadenfrei and was called to Moravian center in Herrnhut in 1748, where he became an organist. [1] He emigrated to the American colonies in 1761 on the same ship with the father of Johann and Simon Peter. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] year. The oldest existing American Moravian art music is a set of seven solos and three duets Dencke composed for the Single Brethren's observance in 1765. It was performed in both Nazareth and Bethlehem, whose diaries use the term Vest Psalm when referring to it. [9]

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Jeremiah Dencke was a Moravian [10] [11] and one of the first American composers. [12] [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 Knouse, Nola Reed (2008). The Music of the Moravian Church in America. University of Rochester Press. p. 270. ISBN   978-1-58046260-0.
  2. ↑ A dictionary of American composers Neil Butterworth, New York: Garland, 1984
  3. ↑ Two odes by Jeremias Deneke : eighteenth-century American Moravian style.- June C. Ottenberg, The Music Review. 45 (1984), S. 112-121.
  4. ↑ The complete works of Jeremias Dencke (1725-1795) - John Douglas Jueckstock, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville). 1984. dissertation.
  5. ↑ Early American music : music in America from 1620 to 1920- Harold Gleason, Published by Bloomington, Indiana: Frangipani Press, 1981
  6. ↑ The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians -Stanley Sadie, 1980
  7. ↑ Biographical dictionary of American music-Charles Eugene Claghorn, Published by West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p. 1974
  8. ↑ Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians-Theodore Baker, Published by G. Schirmer, 1940
  9. ↑ Claypool, Richard D.; Steelman, Robert F. (1979). "The Music Collections in the Moravian Archives". Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society. 23 (2): 13–49. ISSN   0886-1730. JSTOR   41179406.
  10. ↑ The Moravian Contribution to American Music Donald M. McCorkle Notes, 2nd Ser., Vol. 13, No. 4 (Sep., 1956), pp. 597-606 doi : 10.2307/892776 JSTOR   892776
  11. ↑ Catalogue of the Salem Congregation Music by Frances Cumnock Author(s) of Review: Thomas E. Warner American Music, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1983), pp. 94-96 doi : 10.2307/3051588 JSTOR   892776
  12. ↑ http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm American composer Timeline
  13. ↑ "moravian music foundation".
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