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Name
  
Thomas Selle


Role
  
Composer

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Died
  
July 2, 1663, Hamburg, Germany

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Thomas Selle (23 March 1599 – 2 July 1663) was a seventeenth-century German baroque composer.

Contents

Sonata on "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" (Arr. by Thomas Selle, Dirk Sweelinck, Daniel...


Life

Selle was born in Zörbig but received his first instruction in 1622 in Leipzig where he was a pupil of Johann Schein. It was around this time that he encountered the works of Thomaskantor Sethus Calvisius. Selle was cantor in Heide (Holstein) in 1624 and in 1625 in nearby Wesselburen. From 1634 he was cantor in Itzehoe and from 1641 Music Director at the Johanneum of the four main churches of Hamburg; from 1642 as well as minor canon at St Mary's. While in Hamburg, he premiered his Passion nach dem Evangelisten Johannes, which garnered favorable reviews. He died in Hamburg after serving 22 years in his position as music director.

Works

Thomas Selle’s contributions to the German Passion tradition include his use of intermedia, which are poly-choral motets that are interspersed within the Passion story to summarize and comment on the narrative. These were the first non-gospel texts that were included as part of the Passion tradition. Selle, himself, allowed for the removal of these intermedia to accommodate more conservative churches.

Sacred

  • Hagio-deca-melydrion, 1–4vv, bc (1627)
  • Monomachia harmonico-Latina … et ritornellis, congressus prior, 2, 5, 6vv, bc (1630)
  • Monophonia harmonico-Latina, 1–3, 6vv, bc (1633)
  • Concertuum binis vocibus … decas, 2vv, bc (1634)
  • Concertuum trivocalium germanico-sacrorum pentas, 3vv, bc (1635)
  • Concertuum Latino-sacrorum … pentas, 2, 4vv, bc (1635)
  • Concertuum Latino-sacrorum … liber primus, 2, 4, 5vv, bc (Rostock, 1646)
  • 58 works in J. Rist. Sabbathische Seelenlust (Lüneburg, 1651)
  • 52 works in J. Rist: Nene musikalische Festandachten (Lüneburg, 1655)
  • Monomachia harmonico-Latina … et ritornellis, congressus posterior, 2, 5, 6vv, bc, 1630
  • Passio in dialogo secundum Matthaeum, 10vv, bc, 1642
  • Passio secundum Johannem cum intermediis, 12, 5, 4vv, bc, 1643
  • Passio secundum Johannem, sine intermediis, 6, 5vv, bc, after 1643
  • Die Aufferstehung Christi nach den 4 Evangelisten, 8, l4vv, bc
  • Contrapunctus simplex, 4, 5vv, bc
  • Chorus fidicinius etlicher Kirchen-Psalmen, 2-7vv, bc
  • 10 motets, 8vv

    • Secular

  • Concertatio castalidum, a 3 (1624)
  • Deliciae pastorum arcadiae, 10 Pastorellen, a 3 (1624)
  • Deliciarum juvenilium decas harmonica-bivocalis, 2vv, bc (1634)
  • Amorum musicalium … decas I, a 3 (1635)
  • Monophonetica, hoc est, Allerhand lustige … Liedlein, 1v, bc (1636)
  • 25 wedding songs
  • 7 funeral songs
  • 2 songs

    • Theoretical works

  • Kurtze doch grüntliche Anleitung zur Singekunst, D-Hs

    • Editions

  • 6 geistliche Konzerte, bearbeitet von A. Egidi, Berlin 1929
  • Passion nach dem Evangelisten Johannes mit Intermedien, herausgegeben von R. Gerber, Wolfenbüttel 1933

    • References

    Thomas Selle Wikipedia
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