Johann Rudolph Ahle (1625 – 1673) was a German
composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church
musician. He was born in Mühlhausen, Thuringia. While
not much is known of his early musical training, he
attended the grammar school in Göttingen and then
studied theology at the University of Erfurt from 1645
to 1649. In 1646 he became cantor at the Andreaskirche
de in Erfurt. In 1648 he published the Compendium per
tenellis, a theoretical treatise on choral singing
which was reprinted sev...(+)
Johann Rudolph Ahle (1625 – 1673) was a German
composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church
musician. He was born in Mühlhausen, Thuringia. While
not much is known of his early musical training, he
attended the grammar school in Göttingen and then
studied theology at the University of Erfurt from 1645
to 1649. In 1646 he became cantor at the Andreaskirche
de in Erfurt. In 1648 he published the Compendium per
tenellis, a theoretical treatise on choral singing
which was reprinted several times during his lifetime
and for a last time 50 years later by his son Johann
Georg (the last edition appeared in 1704).
In 1654 Ahle assumed the post of organist at the Divi
Blasii in Mühlhausen. The next year he married Anna
Maria Wölfer; their son, Johann Georg Ahle
(1651–1706), was also a well-known composer and
organist. Ahle was elected a town councillor in
Mühlhausen in the 1650s, and was elected mayor shortly
before his death in 1673. His immediate successor at
the church was his son Johann Georg, and then briefly
Johann Sebastian Bach, who worked in Mühlhausen in
1707/08.
Much of Ahle's compositional output consists of sacred
choral and vocal works, instrumental music, and organ
music. He is best known for motets and sacred concertos
(most of them in German, some in Latin) contained in
the collection Neu-gepflanzte Thüringische
Lust-Garten, in welchem ... Neue Geistliche
Musicalische Gewaechse mit 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 und
mehr Stimmen auf unterschiedliche Arten mit und ohne
Instrument ... versetzet (1657–65). He is also known
for hymn melodies, of which three remain in the common
German Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch,
including "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier" and
"Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit". The melody of the latter
was used by Friedrich Dörr for the Advent song
"Kündet allen in der Not".
Source: Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Rudolph_Ahle).
Although originally written for Chorus (SATB), I
created this Interpretation of the Chorale: "Jesu,
meines Herzens Freud" (Jesu, sweetest, loved, and best)
for Oboe & Piano.
SHEET MUSIC