Philipp Heinrich Erlebach

Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (25 July 1657 – 17 April 1714) was a German Baroque composer, a prolific writer of church music and secular music. Much of his work is lost due to a fire. Life Erlebach was born in Esens, Lower Saxony, the son of Johann Philipp Erlebach, a musician at the court of Count Ulrich II of East Frisia (1605–1648), the principality where the younger Erlebach received his early musical training. which contains over 75 such pieces. From the more than 120 instrumental works Erlebach is known to have produced, only 13 pieces survive. Surviving works * VI Ouvertures begleitet mit … Airs nach französischer Art, a 5, 6, 1693 * Six sonatas for violin, viola da gamba and continuo, 1694 Further reading *Bernd Baselt and Dorothea Schroeder’s article in New Grove Dictionary of Music * Bernd Baselt: Der Rudolstädter Hofkapellmeister Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, 1963 * Bernd Baselt: Die Musikaliensammlung der Schwarzburg-Rudolstädtischen Hofkapelle unter Philipp Heinrich Erlebach. Traditionen und Aufgaben der hallischen Musikwissenschaft, 1963, pp 105–134 External links * * Sonatas linnrecords.com