Matthäus Wieser
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Matthäus Wieser (1617–1678) was a collector and songwriter of work songs, often for
miner A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, chalk, clay, or other minerals from the earth through mining. There are two senses in which the term is used. In its narrowest sense, a miner is someone who works at the rock face (mining), face; cutt ...
s. He was sometimes known as Matthai Wieser.


Life

Born in 1617 in Graslitz (
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, near Hof), he lived later in Freiberg (
Freiberg Freiberg () is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany, with around 41,000 inhabitants. The city lies in the foreland of the Ore Mountains, in the Saxon urbanization axis, which runs along the northern edge of the Elster and ...
, and was last located in Germany). He died in 1678. He was a miner and a songwriter (''Bergsänger''). Miner-singers were miners who were deeply Christian. Other minersingers were Michael Bauer and Christian Gottlieb Lohse (1712–1754). It is early work poetry and songwriting.


Works

Christian songs for Miners *O Bergwerksschöpfer höchster Gott *Mit Freude will ich heben an *Dem höchsten Gott so viel ich kann *Freut euch sehr ihr Bergleut alle (from: Gesangbuch der luth. LandeskircheGesangbuch: Ev-Luth. Gesangbuch der luth. Landeskirche, Hannover 1907.) *''Matthai Wiesers Geistlicher Brunqvell'' (Spiritual Water well) He also collected songs Other miner songs of unknown authorship *Gott, der du Berg und Hügel *Gnädigster Erbarmer


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wieser, Matthaus 1617 births 1678 deaths Work music Musicians from Bohemia German male songwriters Song collectors 17th-century German musicians