Franz Joachim Burmeister


Franz Joachim Burmeister was a German Protestant hymn writer.
Born in Lüneburg, Burmeister was the son of the church musician at St. Michaelis in Lüneburg, Anton Burmeister, and his wife Dorothea, née Pörtken, and the nephew of the musicologist Joachim Burmeister.
In 1660, Burmeister was included by his friend Johann Rist in the Elbschwanenorden. He held a position as preacher at St. Michaelis from 1670. Many of his hymns were set to music by Johann Rudolph Ahle. The best-known hymn is "Es ist genug", especially by its setting in Bach's cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60, which Alban Berg quoted in his Violin Concerto. Burmeister died in his hometown.

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