Jeep (Jepp), Johannes (Johann)
Jeep (Jepp), Johannes (Johann)
Jeep (Jepp), Johannes (Johann), German organist and composer; b. Dransfeld, near Göttingen, 1581 or 1582; d. Hanau, Nov. 19, 1644. In his youth he sang in the Celle Hofkapelle, then studied in Nuremberg and Altdorf and later traveled in France and Italy. He became Kapellmeister and organist of the court of the Count of Hohenlohe in Weikersheim (1613), deputy organist at the Frankfurt am Main Cathedral (1635–36), and then municipal Kapellmeister of Frankfurt am Main (1637–40). After working in Hanau schools, he served as Kapellmeister of the chapel of Count Ernst of Hanau-Münzenberg and organist of the St. Marien Church (1642–44). He was best known for his collection of 34 songs publ. in his Studentengärtlein.He also composed over 100 hymns and Psalm settings.
Works
(all publ. in Nuremberg unless otherwise given): sacred: [62] Geistliche Psalmen und Kirchengesäng…D. Martini Lutheri und anderer frommen Christen, wie sie in christlichen Kirchen…zu singen gebräuchlich for 4 Voices (1607; not extant; 2nd ed., 1609); [114] Geistliche Psalmen und Kirchengesänge wie sie…auff alle Fest-, Sonn- und Feyertäge bevorab zu Weikersheim-b…zu singen gebräuchlich for 4 Voices (1629; 26th ed. in L. Schöberlein, Schatz des Liturgischen Chor- und Gemeindegesang, Göttingen, 1865-72); Hymnus-hymenaeus, das ist Lieblich- und zierliches Hochzeit-Gesang– auss dem 2. Capitel dess Hohenlieds Salomonis…auff italiänische Madrigalen arth for 5 Voices and Basso Continuo (Hanau, 1640); 6 lieder for 4 Voices publ. in L. Erhard’s Harmonisches Chor- und Figural Gesangbuch (Frankfurt am Main, 1659). secular:Studentengärtleins erster Theil [17] neuer…weltlicher Liedlein fór 3 to 5 Voices (1605; 7th ed., 1626); Ander Theil [17] …Liedlein for 4 and 5 Voices (1614; 3rd ed., 1622); both vols. ed. by R. Gerber in Das Erbe Deutscher Musik, 1st series, XXIX (1958); [24] Schöne ausserlesene…Tricinia (1610; 8th ed. in D. Kuchemann, Zeitschrift für Spielmusik, XLVI, Celle, 1936).
Bibliography
P. Böhm, Christliche Leich-Predigt…dess…kunstreichen Herrn Johann Jeppen (Hanua, 1645); W. Jeep, Die Familie J., 1540-1940 (Bremen, 1940).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire