Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich (1673-1731) - Dixit Dominus à 4 (1726)

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Composer: Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich (1673-1731)
Work: Dixit Dominus à 4 (1726)
Performers: Capella Gedanensis

Drawing: Nicolaes Visscher (1619-1679) - Gesamtansicht Dantzig
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Map: Hendrik Hondius (1597-1651) - Thuringia. Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum privilegio
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Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich [Freislich]
(bap. Immelborn, nr Bad Salzungen, 6 February 1673 - Danzig [now Gdańsk], 10 April 1731)

German composer, half-brother of Johann Balthasar Christian Freisslich. He went as a boy, probably in about 1686-87, to Danzig, where he sang in the choir at the Marienkirche and studied composition as a pupil of the Kapellmeister, J.V. Meder. When in 1699 Meder had to flee from his creditors, Freisslich succeeded him as Kapellmeister and held the post to the end of his life, when he was succeeded by his half-brother. During his 32 years of activity he wrote much religious music and many secular works. The texts of his compositions, including a cycle of church cantatas (1708–9), were printed at Danzig, but the only surviving composition is a Dixit Dominus of 1726 (PL-GD), written in a sound contrapuntal style. Besides Johann Balthasar Christian, two more of his brothers (sons of a pastor, Johann Weigold Freisslich, 1619-89) were musicians: Johann Thobias (1675-?), an organist in Salzungen, and Johann Wigaläus (1679-?), a member of the Kapelle at the Marienkirche, Danzig, from 1701. #ClassicalMusic