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ECCARD, JOHANN (1553-1611)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 846 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DRO-ECG
ECCARD, JOHANN (1553-1611) , German composer of church music, was born at Muhlhausen on the Unstrut, Prussia, in 1553, At the age of eighteen he went to
Munich
 , where he became the pupil of Orlando Lasso. In his company
Eccard
  is said to have visited Paris, but in 1574 we find him again at Muhlhausen, where he resided for four years, and edited, together with Johann von Burgk, his first master, a collection of sacred songs, called Crepundia sacra Helmboldi (1577). Soon afterwards he obtained an appointment as musician in the
house
  of Jacob Fugger, the Augsburg banker. In 1583 he became assistant conductor, and in 1599 conductor, at
Konigsberg
 , to Georg
Friedrich
 , margrave of Brandenburg-Anspach, the
administrator
  of Prussia. In 16o8 he was called by the elector
Joachim
 
Friedrich
  to Berlin as
chief
  conductor, but this post he held only for three years, owing to his premature death at
Konigsberg
  in 1611.
Eccard
 's works consist exclusively of vocal compositions, such as songs, sacred cantatas and chorales for four or five, and sometimes for seven, eight, or even nine voices. Their polyphonic structure is a marvel of art, and still excites the admiration of musicians. At the same time his works are instinct with a spirit of true religious feeling. His setting of the beautiful words " Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott " is still regarded by the Germans as their representative national hymn. Eccard and his school are inseparably connected with the history of the Reformation.
Of Eccard's songs a
great
  many collections are extant; see K. G. A. von Winterfeld, Der Evangelische Kirchengesang (1843); Daring (Choralkunde, p. 47).


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