Johann Jacob Löwe
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Johann Jacob Löwe was a German baroque composer and organist at Eisenach
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He was educated in Vienna and recommended by Heinrich Schütz
for the position of Hofkapellmeister.
Songs
Instrumental
Eisenach
Eisenach is a city in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated between the northern foothills of the Thuringian Forest and the Hainich National Park. Its population in 2006 was 43,626.-History:...
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He was educated in Vienna and recommended by Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi...
for the position of Hofkapellmeister.
Works
Operas- Löwe composed ten SingspielSingspielA Singspiel is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera...
and operas, among them Andromeda, to librettos by Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig.
Songs
- With his friend Julius Johannes Weiland he published Zweyer gleichgesinnten Freunde Tugend- und Schertz Lieder (1657).
Instrumental
- Albert Rodemann: Two Suites (Rodemann); By Loewe Von Eisenach, Johann Jacob (1628–1703).