MARTIN LUTHER: COMPOSER & MUSICIAN
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
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Paula Bär-Giese - soprano
Hans Meijer - lute
Hein Hof - virginal
Music and Martin Luther
As with most music students of his time, Luther had a grounding in both singing and the lute and was recognized as a skilled lute-player with a pleasant tenor voice.
For Luther, music was not a 'dark art' but one which he grasped as well as any other educated person of his time. He enjoyed singing and playing his lute at home. Some Christian writers of the past, notably Augustine, were distrustful of music and its emotional effect. Augustine was "afflicted with scruples of conscience whenever he discovered that he had derived pleasure from music and had been happy thereby" and "was of the opinion that such joy is unrighteous and sinful." Not so Luther. He affirmed as a great benefit the power of music to move the emotions. Luther wrote the following concerning music:
Whether you wish to comfort the sad, to terrify the happy, to encourage the despairing, to humble the proud, to calm the passionate, or to appease those full of hate - and who could number all these masters of the human heart, namely, the emotions, inclinations, and affections that impel men to evil or good?-what more effective means than music could you find?
This belief in the positive emotive quality of music was not to be restricted to the secular sphere. Luther felt that church music could and should move the emotions, as well. When presented with some choral canons by the composer Lukas Edemberger, Luther commented that "they were neither enjoyable nor pleasing because the composer seemed more interested in writing counterpoint than writing interesting music. 'He has enough of art and skill, [Luther said,] but is lacking in warmth.
Katharina von Bora
With or without her husband, Katharina was a woman of faith, stature, and conviction that often moved her to action. Katharina was born into a poor but noble family in the German state of Saxony. When her mother died, little "Katie," at around five years old, was sent to a Benedictine convent school near Halle. At age ten she was transferred to a Cistercian nunnery in Nimbschen, and in 1515, at the young age of 16, was consecrated as a nun.
Katharina lived as a nun for the following eight years, but as an intelligent woman and deep thinker, she could not ignore the news of Dr. Martin Luther and his campaign to reform the wayward teaching and practices of the Church.
"When Katherine was seventeen, Dr. Luther had come as near to their convent as Grimma, six miles away, and reports of his sermons in that church seeped into the convent. One of the nuns was Magdalene von Staupitz, niece of the vicar-general of the Augustinians, the man who gave Luther his first Bible with the words, "Let the study of the Scriptures be your occupation." From this had stemmed Luther's conversion and devotion to the Bible. Magdalene had received some of Luther's writings and had eagerly imbibed the Reformed doctrines. She gradually and secretly drew as many as eight other nuns to her way of thinking. Katherine was one of them. Over their endless embroidery, patient distilling of herbs, and so on, they contrived to whisper together, and were alert to every bit of ecclesiastical news from the outside world."
The escape of Katharina and eleven other nuns on Holy Saturday in 1523 is an exciting story and only the beginning of many courageous decisions and actions she would need to take during her life as the wife and widow of Dr. Luther. The reformer's many houseguests, moods of depression and other physical ailments, endless travels for the sake of the Church, and of course his time in hiding at Wartburg Castle, provided endless challenges for this devoted wife and mother. Testifying to her perseverance in life, Kenneth Taylor wrote:
"At his death Luther had been receiving a pension annuity from King Christian III of Denmark. King Christian III continued the pension after Luther's death, making the payments to Katie. When the pension stopped coming in 1548, two of Luther's colleagues sought to get the pension restored, to no effect. Katie took up the cause in letters to King Christian III in 1550 and 1552, to which the king finally assented. Katie was clearly a force to be reckoned with, a bit like the New Testament's persistent widow."
Educational? Most certainly, but enchanting with it. Warm Thanks 😊
Hi, I’m 18y and I come from France, I find this very beautiful, I’m not religious but I listen this all of time, it soothes me...
I recommend that you begin by asking GOD, the Creator of all existence, in prayer to reveal himself to you and show you who he is and what the truth is.
If you earnestly and heartily ask GOD in prayer he will reveal himself to you in time.
GOD bless you. ❤🙏
Jesus
Extremely moving
I hoped to hear more music of Luther in the film... But I like the lute playing very much.
Beautiful - just wish I knew what they were singing
Beautiful
Sehr schön.
Me gusta muchísimo, es muy bonito y hermoso.
Bravo magnifique , fort beaux costumes, j'aime ça...
Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Schön! Welch'Freude! Welch'Erquickung!
Una maravilla
belíssimo
So as " Dame de Beaulte " was used twice for Agnès Sorel (Owned the property called " Beaulte ") Luther was twice a lute Lord ...
Yes, beautiful, indeed !!!!!!!!!!!!
💖💖💖💖
Meget smuk skønsang fra Luthers tid. Smukt og rent sunget. Sange med religiøst indhold......
Awesome middle age jam
The great Saint Dr Luther who got it right! I love this man’s interpretation and his honesty on a whole host of issues. Bar nothing!
8:29 Preciosa
Martin LUTE-r
Ah?! 😎
die klang der Menschlichkeit
Lovely voice, what a fun video, thank you. Just a shame about the C17 chair; but I'm an authenticity nazi...
did martin luther post by nail or mail? (poem)
millions are celebrating / one young / Augustinian
monk’s consequential actions on / this year’s 500th
anniversary / of the reformation / even those / with
no interest / in the history of christianity / often
know the story of / Martin Luther / and his
revolutionary doings / on october 31 / 1517
Martin’s protestant hammer / detonated a bomb
as it drove a nail / into the rugged wooden door
of wittenberg’s / main cathedral / yet
honestly / i’ve never really given it much / thought
as to / whether or not / the great / renegade and
prophet / actually / nail / his / 95 anticlerical
revolutionary theses / to the church door / in
wittenberg / Roman-Catholic Germany
his faithful friend / Melanchthon / is credited
with launching the famous scene / that, / with
theses and hammer / in hand / luther / publicly
posted / them at the church / which is next
Wittenberg castle / on the eve / of all saints
we just don’t know for sure / if Martin’s theses
was ever actually displayed / in this way / as it was
never mentioned / until after his death / Luther / him-
himself never spoke / of doing such a thing
the only posting / Luther did that day / was of two
private letters / to two bishops / under whose authority
he stood / both were dated / october 31, / 1517
in conclusion / never having taken up / a
hammer / nor approached / any church door / with
a document / Martin posted the inflammatory / theses
by mail / and not by nail
don't get me wrong / babe / i don't mean / to be
disrespectfully / politely lying / this ain't war-
warmongering rhetoric / or a / disdainful / or
condescending / protestant-german threat
in the beginning was the Word / and the Word
was with God / and the Word was God
(John 1:1 KJV)
it's a big day: / the 500th anniversary / of
the Reformation / Happy Reformation-day!
My belief alone, my private interpretation of Scripture alone. Welcome religious individualism.
süß