Michael Kraf

Life

Born: 5 September 1595

Died: 16 March 1662

Biography

Michael Kraf was a German composer, possibly educated at the Jesuit College at Fulda. During the Thirty Years War, he was employed by the abbey at Weingarten as organist / composer, and managed to save it from destruction by a protestant army. In 1633 he was elected burgomaster of Weingarten, and discontinued his musical career.

View the German Wikipedia article on Michael Kraf. (English translation by Google)

List of choral works

4 Motetten a 6 Adiuvet nos gratia Benedixit te Caelorum candor splenduit De S. Francesco Candidi facti sunt Nazareni Ecce veniet Dominus Egredietur Dominus Emitte lucem tuam Hodie Christus natus est Homo Dei creatura Iam fidelis turba Magnum hæreditatis

Missa Dilectus meus Missa secunda Missa tertia Nativitas tua O Beate Maure O beati viri Peccata mea Domine Quam dilecta tabernacula Sancti et iusti Stetit Angelus iuxta aram templi Virgo Israel Virgo potens Maria

 

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Publications

• Musae novae octonis vocibus cum duplici basso ad organum (...), Dillingen 1616 <ref>Katalog der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München mit Digitalisat</ref>
• Liber primus sacrorum concentuum, Rorschach 1620
• Augustissimae coelorum dominae virginis parentis canticum, Rorschach 1620
• Canticum deiparae virginis, Rorschach 1620
• Missae senis octonis duodenis vocibus, Ravensburg 1623
• Liber secundus sacrorum concentuum, Ravensburg 1624
• Motectae quibus deo ter optumo maxumo divisque caelitibus, Ravensburg 1625, 1626
• Sacri litaniarum concentus, Ravensburg 1627
• Camoenopaedia sacra concertus vocant
• Agalliama vespertinum magnificat liber tertius, Rottweil 1627

External links

• Works by Michael Kraf in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
• Bavaian State Library