Wizlaw

Aliases: Vitslav; Vislav; Vizlav; Wislaw; Wizlaw; Witslaw; Wizlav von Rügen – ‘Wizlav (von Rügen?)’ in Literaturlexikon: Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache, ed. W. Killy

Life

Born: 1265 or 1268

Died: 8. November 1325

Biography The Minnesänger Wizlaw "the younger" whose 14 songs and 13 Sprüche are preserved in the Jena Ms. is presumed to be Wizlaw III, Prince of Rügen, even though the poems are in a variety of Middle High (rather than Low) German; doubts have been raised since the 1970's. An engaging biography can be found in Wesley Thomas, Barbara Garvey Seagrave: The Songs Of The Minnesinger, Prince Wizlaw Of Rügen (Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina 1967).

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List of choral works

The works with surviving music are:

Lieder De erde is vntslozen Der herbest kumpt uns riche nůch Der vnghelarte – hat ghemachet eyne senende wise Der walt vnt angher lyt ghe breyt De voghelin/Vntphat des lechten meyien scin Ich parere dich durch mine vrowen … List du in der minne dro (fragment) Loybere risen / Von den boymen hin tzů tal Meyie scone kum io tzů

10. Nach der senenden claghe můz ich singhen 11. Vve ich han ghedacht 12. Uvol dan her meyie ich ghebe vch des de hulde 13. Uvol vph ir stolzen helde Sprüche Ich warne dich vil jungher man ghetzarte Manich scimphit vph sin eyghen tzil Menschenkint denket daran Saghe an du boser man

Thomas and Seagrave also ascribe to Wizlaw a Leich: "Ich wil singen in der nuwen wise"  
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Publications

• Jenaer Liederhandschrift (editions in 1852, 1902, 1963, 1967, 1972)

External links

• wizlaw.de
• Works by Wizlaw in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)