Jeremiah Dencke

Jeremiah Dencke was born October 2, 1725 in Langenbielau, Silesia and died May 28, 1795 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He emigrated to the American colonies in 1761.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Jeremiah Dencke was a Moravian [8][9] and one of the first American composers.[10]

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)

References
  1. A dictionary of American composers Neil Butterworth, New York: Garland, 1984
  2. Two odes by Jeremias Deneke : eighteenth-century American Moravian style.- June C. Ottenberg, The Music Review. 45 (1984), S. 112-121.
  3. The complete works of Jeremias Dencke (1725-1795) - John Douglas Jueckstock, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville). 1984. dissertation.
  4. Early American music : music in America from 1620 to 1920- Harold Gleason, Published by Bloomington, Indiana: Frangipani Press, 1981
  5. The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians -Stanley Sadie, 1980
  6. Biographical dictionary of American music-Charles Eugene Claghorn, Published by West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p. 1974
  7. Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians-Theodore Baker, Published by G. Schirmer, 1940
  8. 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 JSTOR 892776
  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 JSTOR 892776
  10. http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm American composer Timeline


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