Thomas Selle was a German baroque composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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Life

Selle was born in Zörbig

Zörbig

' is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated approx. 15 km west of Bitterfeld, and 20 km northeast of Halle . Zörbig is well-known for its molasses made from sugar beets....

 but received his first instruction in Leipzig where he was probably a pupil of the Thomaskantor

Thomaskantor

The Thomaskantor is the musical director of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig, founded in 1212. He is appointed by Leipzig's city council and his duties are to lead the weekly services called Motette, Sunday services and other services in the Thomaskirche, also to conduct recordings and tours.Johann...

 Sethus Calvisius. He was cantor in Heide

Heide

Heide is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the Kreis Dithmarschen. Population: 21,000.The German word Heide means "heath". In the 15th century four adjoining villages decided to build a church in the "middle of the heath". This remained the town's name to date...

 (Holstein) in 1624 and in 1625 in the nearby Wesselburen

Wesselburen

Wesselburen is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen in the German Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein. It is situated near the North Sea coast, approximately 11 km west of Heide....

. 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. He died in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

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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

Editions

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

External links

• Stadt Zörbig, Berühmte Söhne der Stadt Zörbig