Jeremiah Dencke Explained

Jeremiah Dencke was born October 2, 1725, in Langenbielau, Silesia and died May 28, 1795, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He joined the Moravian Congregation at Gnadenfrei and was called to Moravian center in Herrnhut in 1748, where he became an organist.^[1] He emigrated to the American colonies in 1761 on the same ship with the father of Johann and Simon Peter.^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]} year. The oldest existing American Moravian art music is a set of seven solos and three duets Dencke composed for the Single Brethren's observance in 1765. It was performed in both Nazareth and Bethlehem, whose diaries use the term Vest Psalm when referring to it.^[9]

Jeremiah Dencke was a Moravian^{[10] [11]} and one of the first American composers.^[12]

List of works

• Meine Seele erhebet dem Herrn
• Gehet in dem Geruch Seines Brautigams-Namens
• Gesegnet bist du, sein Volk
• Meine Herz dichtet ein feines Lied

Discography

• Flowering Of Vocal Music In America 1767-1823
• Lost Music Of Early America - The Moravians
• Music from 18th-Century Pennsylvania (1976)
• Christmas in Early America (1994)
• Giuseppe Martucci (1995)
• America Sings, Volume I: The Founding Years (1995)

References

1. Book: Knouse, Nola Reed . The Music of the Moravian Church in America . University of Rochester Press . 2008 . 978-1-58046260-0 . 270 . en.
2. A dictionary of American composers Neil Butterworth, New York: Garland, 1984
3. Two odes by Jeremias Deneke : eighteenth-century American Moravian style.- June C. Ottenberg, The Music Review. 45 (1984), S. 112-121.
4. The complete works of Jeremias Dencke (1725-1795) - John Douglas Jueckstock, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville). 1984. dissertation.
5. Early American music : music in America from 1620 to 1920- Harold Gleason, Published by Bloomington, Indiana: Frangipani Press, 1981
6. The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians -Stanley Sadie, 1980
7. Biographical dictionary of American music-Charles Eugene Claghorn, Published by West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p. 1974
8. Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians-Theodore Baker, Published by G. Schirmer, 1940
9. Claypool . Richard D. . Steelman . Robert F. . The Music Collections in the Moravian Archives . 1979 . Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society . 23 . 2 . 13–49 . 41179406 . 0886-1730.
10. The Moravian Contribution to American Music Donald M. McCorkle Notes, 2nd Ser., Vol. 13, No. 4 (Sep., 1956), pp. 597-606
11. Catalogue of the Salem Congregation Music by Frances Cumnock Author(s) of Review: Thomas E. Warner American Music, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1983), pp. 94-96
12. http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm American composer Timeline