Jeremiah Dencke

Jeremiah Dencke born October 2, 1725 in Langenbielau, Schlesien and died May 28, 1795 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, emigrated to the American colonies in 1761. ["A dictionary of American composers" Neil Butterworth, New York: Garland, 1984] ["Two odes by Jeremias Deneke : eighteenth-century American Moravian style."- June C. Ottenberg, The Music Review. 45 (1984), S. 112-121. ] ["The complete works of Jeremias Dencke (1725-1795)" - John Douglas Jueckstock, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville). 1984. dissertation.] ["Early American music : music in America from 1620 to 1920"- Harold Gleason, Published by Bloomington, Indiana: Frangipani Press, 1981] ["The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians" -Stanley Sadie, 1980] ["Biographical dictionary of American music"-Charles Eugene Claghorn, Published by West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p. 1974] ["Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians"-Theodore Baker, Published by G. Schirmer, 1940] Jeremiah Dencke was a Moravian [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4380(195609)2%3A13%3A4%3C597%3ATMCTAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9 The Moravian Contribution to American Music Donald M. McCorkle Notes, 2nd Ser., Vol. 13, No. 4 (Sep., 1956), pp. 597-606 doi:10.2307/892776 ] [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4380(195609)2%3A13%3A4%3C597%3ATMCTAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9 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 doi:10.2307/3051588] and one of the first American composers. [http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm American composer Timeline]

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 ""Christmas in Early America" (1994) "Giuseppe Martucci" (1995) "America Sings, Volume I: The Founding Years" (1995)

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