Johannes Herold

German composer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroGerman composer
PlacesGermany
wasMusician Composer
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Male
Birth1550, Jena, Thuringia, Germany
Death8 September 1603Weimar, Thuringia, Germany (aged 53 years)
The details

Biography

Johannes Heroldt (around 1550 in Jena - September 8, 1603 in Weimar) was a German composer best known for his six-part St Matthew Passion composed at Klagenfurt in 1594.

Works, editions and recordings

  • "Historia des Leidens und Sterbens unsers Herrn und Heylandts Jesu Christi aus dem hlg. Evangelio Mattheo", mit 6 Stimmen componirt; Grätz in Steyer bei Georg Widmannstetter, 1594, Graz 1594 ; edition Hans Joachim Moser - 1955
  • Historia, with Joachim a Burck Johannespassion and Christoph Demantius Passion. recorded by Michel Laplénie, Erato 1990
  • Historia, with Teodoro Clinio Passio secundum Joannem - recorded by Ensemble Triagonale, Michael Paumgarten CPO, 2015
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