Ebeling, Johann Georg
Ebeling, Johann Georg
Ebeling, Johann Georg, German composer; b. Luneburg, July 8, 1637; d. Stettin, Dec. 4,1676. He was a pupil of Michael Jacobi, Kantor of the St. Johannis Gymnasium in Luneburg, and then pursued theological studies at the Univ. of Helmstedt. After serving in the Hamburg collegium musicum (1660–62), he was Kantor of St. Nicolai in Berlin (1662–67). He then was the principal music teacher at the Gymnasium Carolinum in Stettin from 1667 until his death. He collected the hymns of the poet Paul Gerhardt as Pauli Gerhardi geistliche Andachten (Berlin, 1666–67; ed. by K. Ameln, Kassel, 1934), consisting of 120 works for domestic devotions, of which 112 were set to his melodies as harmonized in four parts with two optional parts for instruments. The most celebrated work from the collection was Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille. He also wrote one of the earliest histories of music, Archaiologia Orphicae/i.e. Antiquitates musicae (Stettin, 1675).
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