Heinrich Schwemmer

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Heinrich Schwemmer (28 March 1621 – 31 May 1696) was a German music teacher and composer.

He was born in Gumpertshausen bei Hallburg, Lower Franconia, and moved with his mother to Weimar after his father’s death in 1627, to get away from the Thirty Years War. After his mother's death in 1638, he moved to Coburg, then in 1641 to Nuremberg, where he remained for the rest of his life. He studied music with Kindermann at the Sebaldusschule, and in 1650 himself became a teacher, effectively a Kantor without the title; from 1656 he was Director chori musici along with Paul Hainlein. Along with Georg Caspar Wecker, he taught a generation of musicians in the tradition of the South German school, including Nikolaus Deinl, Johann Krieger, Johann Löhner, Johann Pachelbel, J.B. Schütz, and Maximilian Zeidler. Schwemmer taught singing, while Wecker gave instruction in keyboard playing and composition.

All his known compositions, of which there a considerable number in manuscript, are vocal works: mostly sacred strophic songs for weddings and funerals, with some cantatas and chorale concertos. He was a master of the concertato vocal style.

Sources

Harold E. Samuel, 'Schwemmer, Heinrich', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 2007-06-10), http://www.grovemusic.com/
Harold E. Samuel: The Cantata in Nuremberg during the Seventeenth Century (Ann Arbor, 1982)

External links

Free scores by Heinrich Schwemmer in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 62626510 LCCN: no93032981

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Name	Schwemmer, Heinrich
Alternative names
Short description	German music teacher and composer
Date of birth	28 March 1621
Place of birth	Gumpertshausen bei Hallburg, Lower Franconia
Date of death	31 May 1696
Place of death	Nuremberg

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