Project Details
Projekt
The Sacred-Lyrical Oeuvre of the Baroque Poet Johann Rist (1607-1667) and His Cooperation with the Composers Thomas Selle (1599-1663), Heinrich Scheidemann (+ 1663), Johann Schop (+ 1667), and Michael Jacobi (1618-1663)
Subject Area
German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
Musicology
Musicology
Term
from 2018 to 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 413500911
The exceptionally productive writer and pastor of Wedel Johann Rist (1607-1667) is, with Martin Opitz, Andreas Gryphius, Simon Dach, and others, one of the most significant sacred poets of the Baroque age. His significance is due to his lively communication between various circles of baroque poets' societies and his exchanges with the most prominent writers and scholars of his day. Moreover, no other baroque poet of the German language has ever published the kind of comprehensive and multifaceted Oeuvre of sacred lyrics as has Rist.Thanks in part to support from the DFG, critical editions of seven larger collections of Rist’s sacred hymns with its musical compositions and a bibliography of the complete sacred lyrics of Rist have been produced to date.This project aims to offer critical hybrid editions of all remaining hymnals written by Rist and his composers with detailed commentary. The hymnbooks to be edited (in four volumes) are Daily Music for the Home (1654), the New Musical Devotions for Festivals (1655), as well as Despicable Vanity and Desired Eternity, Part I (1658) and Despicable Vanity and Desired Eternity, Part II (posthumously 1668). The editions will be published in printed form and in electronic form through open access. The electronic form will make available to users many additional features (for example, links to other sources, which will be made accessible within the project, to reference volumes, and embedded artwork and facsimiles) and search functions. The digital edition will be stored and made available through the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek in Darmstadt as part of its Digital Library.The editorial work on the collections of Rist’s sacred hymns thus comes to a close with this project. When the extensive text corpus (totaling 12 volumes in the print version) is finished, all of Rist’s sacred hymns will be made available as a digital corpus in the public domain. This corpus will provide extended technical tools for research and long-term use.
DFG Programme
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