Johann Jacob Löwe

Johann Jacob Löwe (1628–1703) was a German Baroque composer and organist at Eisenach.

He was educated in Vienna and recommended by Heinrich Schütz for the position of Hofkapellmeister.

Works

Operas

• Löwe composed ten Singspiels and operas, among them Andromeda, to librettos by Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig.

Songs

• With his friend Julius Johannes Weiland he published Zweyer gleichgesinnten Freunde Tugend- und Schertz Lieder (1657).

Instrumental

• Albert Rodemann: Two Suites (Rodemann); By Loewe Von Eisenach, Johann Jacob (1628–1703).

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