Sperontes (real name, Johann Sigismund Scholze)
Sperontes (real name, Johann Sigismund Scholze)
Sperontes (real name, Johann Sigismund Scholze), German poet and musical anthologist; b. Lobendau, Silesia, March 20, 1705; d. Leipzig, Sept. 27, 1750. He was educated in Liegnitz and then settled in Leipzig, where he was active as a poet and amateur musician. His most important work was the collection of strophic songs publ, as Singende Muse an der Pleisse (4 vols., Leipzig, 1736, 1742, 1743, 1745; ed. in Denkmäler Deutscher Tonkunst, XXXV-XXXVI, 1909). It contained 250 poems with 248 musical settings, the latter being almost wholly from pre-existing instrumental and vocal works adapted by Sperontes. Many of these songs were popular in his day, and several entered the standard repertoire.
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