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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

• Sperontes, singende Muse an der Pleisse, Leipzig, 1736
• Das Kätzgen, ein Schäferspiel, Leipzig 1746
• Die Kirms, Leipzig 1746
• Das Strumpfband, Leipzig 1748
• Der Frühling
• Der Winter

Sources

• Robert L. Marshall and Dianne M. McMullen's article in new Grove Dictionary of Music
• P. Spitta: 'Sperontes "Singende Muse an der Pleisse": zur Geschichte des deutschen Hausgesanges im 18. Jahrhundert', 1885
• A. Kopp: 'Gedichte von Günther und Sperontes im Volksgesang', Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, xxvii, 1895
• J.W. Smeed: German Song and its Poetry, 1740–1900, 1987
• S. Kross: Geschichte des deutschen Liedes, 1989)

Notes

External links

• Free scores by Johann Sigismund Scholze at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
• Biography at Ostdeutsche Biographie (in German)

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