Grimm, Heinrich
Grimm, Heinrich
Grimm, Heinrich, German composer; b. Holzminden, c. 1593; d. Braunschweig, July 10, 1637. He studied with Michael Praetorius, then studied theology at the Univ. of Helmstedt. In 1619 he became rector of the Magdeburg town school. In 1631, when the town was destroyed, he fled with his family to Braunschweig, where he became a cantor at the church of St. Catherine; subsequently was a cantor at St. Andreas’s church (1632-37). He was an exponent of the concerted style, with thoroughbass, at that time still a novel technique in Germany. His extant works include masses, Psalms, Passions, motets, and several pedagogical works. He publ. Unterricht, wie ein Knabe nach der alien Guidonischen Art zu solmisieren leicht angefilhrt werden kann (Magdeburg, 1624) and Instrumentum Instrumentorum, hoc est, Monochordum, vel potius Dodecachordum (MS, 1629) and prepared a combined ed. of Melopoeia seu melodiae condendae ratio by Calvisius and Pleiades Musicae by Baryphonus (Magdeburg, 1630).
Bibliography
H. Lorenzen, Der Cantor H. G. (1593-1637): Sein Leben und seine Werke mit Beitrag zur Musikgeschichte Magdeburgs und Braunschweigs (diss., Univ. of Hamburg, 1940).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire