Georg Christoph Strattner

Georg Christoph Strattner
Born	c. 1645 Gols, Burgenland, Austria
Died	April 1704 (aged 58–59) Weimar, Germany
Genres	Hymns
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer, hymn writer

Georg Christoph Strattner (c. 1645 – April 1704) was a German church musician, composer, and hymn writer.

Strattner was born in Gols, then in the Hungarian Burgenland. He received his first musical training from his cousin Samuel Capricornus who was the music director at the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Preßburg. At age fourteen, he became a choir boy at the Stuttgart court chapel. In 1694, he found employment at the court chapel in Weimar and was promoted to vice capellmeister (Particulier Kammermusikus und Vice-Capellmeister) in 1695, succeeding August Kühnel, with Samuel Drese as capellmeister.

Strattner composed several cantatas of which about twenty are extant in manuscripts, and hymns, often with melodies like arias. He died in Weimar where he was buried on 11 April 1704.

Selected works

• (ed): Joachimi Neandri Vermehrte Glaub- und Liebes-Ubung : Auffgemuntert durch einfältige Bundes-Lieder/ Und Danck-Psalmen ; Gegründet auff den zwischen Gott und dem Sünder im Blut Jesu befestigten Friedens-Schluß/ Zu lesen und zu singen auff Reisen/ Zu Hauß/ oder bey Christ-Ergetzungen im Grünen/ Durch ein geheiligtes Hertzens-Halleluja. Franckfurt: Andreä, 1691

Literature

• Elisabeth Mentzel (1893), "Strattner, Georg Christoph", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 36, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 520–524
• Hermann Schemmel: Strattner, Georg Christoph. In: Wolfgang Herbst (ed.): Komponisten und Liederdichter des evangelischen Gesangbuchs. (= Handbuch zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch; vol. 2). Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-50318-0, p. 316

External links

• Literature by and about Georg Christoph Strattner in the German National Library catalogue