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Christian Flor (1626 – 28 September 1697) was a German composer and organist.

Life

Born in Neukirchen (Ostholstein), Flor came from a family of pastors spread throughout Schleswig-Holstein and was born as the son of the pastor Otto Flor and his wife Catharina. He probably received his musical education from the organ masters in Hamburg or Lübeck. From 1652, he was organist at St. Marien in Rendsburg and in 1653 he married Margarethe Hudemann († 1671), the daughter of his predecessor. A daughter Catharina was baptised in Rendsburg on 24 October 1653. At the latest in 1654, he became organist at St. Lamberti in Lüneburg.[1] After the death of his wife he married Anna Dorothea Lange (1641-1685). From 1676 until his death, he was (as a predecessor of Georg Böhm) also organist at St. John's Church, Lüneburg. He became a citizen of Lüneburg in 1683.[2]

Flor was known nationwide as an organist and organ expert. He contributed significantly to Lüneburg becoming one of the most important North German music centres of the time. His son Johann Georg (1679-1728) worked like his father as organist at St. Lamberti in Lüneburg, his son Gottfried Philipp (1682-1723) from 1707 as organist at St. Michaelis, Lüneburg.[3][4] Flor composed a St. Matthew Passion in 1667, which is one of the first oratorical passions in music history.[5] Besides a few surviving organ works and independent harpsichord compositions, Flor created several collections of Lieder, occasional music and liturgical vocal works.[6]

Johann Sebastian Bach probably became acquainted with compositions by Flor during his stay as a student in Lüneburg[7] and be influenced by them.[8] According to other sources, Bach is said to have known Flor personally and to have appreciated his compositions. His reputation is also supported by the fact that both Johann Gottfried Walther (1732) and Johann Mattheson in their music encyclopaedias. The latter describes him in his Grundlage einer Ehrenpforte (1740) as "den berühmten Lüneburgischen Organisten."[9]

Work

  • Passionsoratorium, 1667
  • Es ist gnug, Herr, kleines geistliches Konzert, Verlag C. Hofius Ammerbuch, 2007
  • Machet die Tore weit, Cantata for voices (SATB), strings and b.c., Edition Baroque Bremen
  • Pastores currite in Bethlehem, Cantata for voices (SATB), strings and b.c., Edition Baroque Bremen
  • Es segne dich der Gott Israels, Cantata for voices (SATB), 2 violins and b.c., Edition Baroque Bremen
  • Harpsichord works (could only be assigned to Flor in 1997), including
    • Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (Online-Version; PDF; 76 KB)
    • Zehn Suiten für Clavier, edited by Jörg Jacobi, Edition Baroque Bremen 2006, ISMN-M-700266-05-9.
    • Dreizehn & Ein Choral, Edition Baroque Bremen.
  • Neues Musikalisches Seelenparadis, in Sich begreiffend Die allerfuertreflichste Sprueche der H. Schrifft, Neuen Testaments, In Lehr- und Trostreichen Liedern, und Hertzens-Andachten (welche so wohl auf bekannte, und in den Evangelischen Kirchen gewoehliche, Als auch gantz neue, von dem fuertrefflichen Musico, Herren Christian Flor, der Kirchen zu S. Lambrecht, in Lueneburg wolbestelte Organisten, so kuenst als lieblich gesetzte Melodien, koennen gespilet und gesungen werden) / richtig erklaehret und abgefasset ... hervor gegeben von Johann Rist. Stern, Lüneburg 1662. 495 S.
  • Das gläubige Senffkorn – 23 Lieder für Singstimme und Basso continuo nach Gedichten von Georg Heinrich Werbern, 1665 (Vokalwerke, vol. VIII), Edition Baroque Bremen.

Further reading

  • Kimberly Jean Beck: The Dance movements of Christian Flor in Lüneburg Mus. Ant. Pract. 1198. University of Iowa, Iowa 2009 (online, PDF-Datei; 4,76 MB).
  • Peter Epstein: Ein unbekanntes Passionsoratorium von Christian Flor (1667). In Bach-Jahrbuch. 27, 1930, pp. 56–99.
  • Joachim Kremer, Arndt Schnoor: Flor, Christian. In Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. personalities part, vol. 6. 2nd edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2001, Sp. 1338–1341.
  • Joachim Kremer, Friedrich Jekutsch, Arndt Schnoor (ed.): Christian Flor (1626–1697) – Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747–1800). Texte und Dokumente zur Musikgeschichte Lüneburgs. (Veröffentlichungen der Ratsbücherei Lüneburg, vol. 6; Musik der frühen Neuzeit, vol. 2). Von Bockel, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-932696-04-2, including, among others:
    • Friedrich Jekutsch: Ausstellungskatalog Christian Flor [zur Ausstellung 1997 in Lüneburg]. pp. 123–137.
    • Joachim Kremer: Der "kunstbemühte Meister". Christian Flor als Liedkomponist Johann Rists. pp. 52–85.
    • Joachim Kremer: "... tanzet, springet in die Wette ..." Über Christian Flors Vokalkompositionen. pp. 86–117.
    • Arndt Schnoor: Christian Flor und das Lüneburger Musikleben seiner Zeit [with list of works]. pp. 11–26.
    • Arndt Schnoor: Christian Flors Werke für Tasteninstrumente. pp. 41–51.
    • Arndt Schnorr: Zum Nachwirken Christian Flors. pp. 118–122.
    • Hilde Szwerinski: Verzeichnis der erhaltenen und nachweisbaren Werke Christian Flors sowie der von ihm aufgezeichneten Kompositionen. pp. 27–40.
  • Arndt Schnoor: Recently discovered cembalo works by Christian Flor, 1626-1697 [in German]. In Musikforschung. 50/1, January-March 1997, .
  • Hilde Szwerinski: Flor, Christian. In Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck. Vol. 7, Wachholtz, Neumünster 1985, ISBN 3-529-02647-6, pp. 64–66.
  • Stephen Rose: A Lübeck music auction, 1695. In Schütz-Jahrbuch. 30, 2008, pp. 171–190.

Recordings

  • Nicolaus Bruhns: Complete Organ Works (Kontrapunkt 32198) ... Christian Flor (1616-1697): Chorale Preludes ... Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen at the Havgaard Rasmussen Organs in Eckernförde and Husum (D)
  • G.A. Pandolfi Mealli: Violin Sonatas (1660) and Harpsichord Suites by Christian Flor with Andrew Manze (Violin) (CCS 5894)
  • Dansk Orgelmusik i 400 år 3-CD-CLASSCD528-30 – Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott & Suite in D, Mikkelsen [1]
  • Organ Landscape: Holstein-Lübeck ... Christian Flor ... Wolfgang Baumgratz (organ) MDG- 319 0962(CD)
  • Musicalische Frühlings-Früchte: Anonymus, Dietrich Becker, Christian Flor (Cembalosuiten, ‘Hochzeitlicher Freuden-Klang’) – Musica Poetica, Jörn Boysen (Challenge Classics) [2]

References

  1. ^ Kremer: Flor, Christian. 2001, p. 1338
  2. ^ Biographische Informationen
  3. ^ Kremer: Flor, Christian. 2001, p. 1339.
  4. ^ Flor, Christian on IMSLP
  5. ^ Kurt von Fischer: The Passion. Music between art and church. Bärenreiter/Metzler, Kassel among others 1997, ISBN 3-476-01530-0, p. 88.
  6. ^ Kremer: Flor, Christian. 2001, pp. 1340–1341.
  7. ^ Christoph Wolff (2011). Johann Sebastian Bach (4. ed.). Frankfurt: S. Fischer. p. 65. ISBN 978-3-596-16739-5.}
  8. ^ Kimberly Jean Beck: The Dance movements of Christian Flor in Lüneburg Mus. Ant. Pract. 1198. University of Iowa, Iowa 2009, p. 67, 74-75 (online, PDF-File; 4,76 MB)
  9. ^ Johann Mattheson: Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte. Hamburg 1740, p. 66 (archive.org).
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