Previous posts for July 25th is here: Yvonne Printemps (2020) and Agostino Steffani (2021)
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Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (25 July 1657 – 17 April 1714) was a prolific German composer of church music and secular music.
Judging from What’s Left
He was a prolific composer, but most of his works (over 1000 compositions), which had been acquired by the court from Erlebach's widow after his death, were destroyed in 1735 during a fire in Rudolstadt. The destroyed material also included 24 masses and at least six complete cycles of cantatas for the Lutheran church year. -- Wikipedia
If Phillip Heinrich Erlebach is fated
To spend all time ignored and under-rated,
It is because the oeuvre he created
Was damaged, — one might say annihilated.
And all that I can say of him, alas, is
His cycles of cantatas and his masses
Are not discussed in seminars or classes.
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