Previous posts for July 25th is here: Yvonne Printemps (2020), Agostino Steffani (2021), Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (2022), and Alfredo Casella (2023)
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Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (25 July 1657 – 17 April 1714) was a prolific German composer of church music and secular music.
Backed Up
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
Most of Erlebach’s entire
Legacy was lost to fire.
Oh! What a tragedy to think
Of toiling with a quill and ink,
Preparing precious careful pages, ----
And then it’s gone when fire rages.
If he’d had software that allowed
Convenient back-up to the cloud,
Or if he could’ve, with a click,
Exported to a memory stick,
We'd know much more of Erlebach,
Not just the core of Erlebach.
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