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See also:ECCARD, JOHANN (1553-1611) , See also:German composer of See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church See also:music, was See also:born at See also:Muhlhausen on the Unstrut, See also:Prussia, in 1553, At the See also:age of eighteen he went to See also:Munich, where he became the See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Orlando See also:Lasso. In his See also:company Eccard is said to have visited See also: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 See also:master, a collection of sacred songs, called Crepundia sacra Helmboldi (1577). Soon afterwards he obtained an See also:appointment as musician in the See also:house of See also:Jacob See also:Fugger, the See also:Augsburg banker. In 1583 he became assistant conductor, and in 1599 conductor, at See also:Konigsberg, to Georg See also:Friedrich, See also:margrave of See also:Brandenburg-Anspach, the See also:administrator of Prussia. In 16o8 he was called by the elector See also:Joachim Friedrich to See also:Berlin as See also:chief conductor, but this See also:post he held only for three years, owing to his premature See also:death at Konigsberg in 1611. Eccard's See also: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 See also:art, and still excites the admiration of musicians. At the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time his works are See also:instinct with a spirit of true religious feeling. His setting of the beautiful words " Ein' feste See also:Burg ist unser Gott " is still regarded by the Germans as their representative See also:national hymn. Eccard and his school are inseparably connected with the See also:history of the See also:Reformation.
Of Eccard's songs a See also:great many collections are extant; see K. G. A. von Winterfeld, Der Evangelische Kirchengesang (1843); Daring (Choralkunde, p. 47).
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