Delphin Strungk
1601 — 1694
Delphin Strungk was a German composer and organist associated with the North German school.
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Delphin Strungk, born in 1601 and passing in Brunswick in 1694, was recognized as a “capable organist,” according to Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (American Supplement) (1922). He held various posts, serving at the Wolfenbüttel Hauptkirche from 1630 to 1632, then at Celle, and later at the church of St. Martin in Brunswick. His contemporary, Conrad Matthaei, in a 1652 dedication, referred to him as “der sehr beriihmte Organist, Herr Delphin Strungk” (the very famous organist, Mr. Delphin Strungk), as recorded by Grove’s (1922). Strungk composed organ music, with examples including a four-part Choralvorspiel titled “Lass mich dein sein,” and two more published by Dr. Max Seiffert. A manuscript in the Wolfenbüttel Library also contains an autograph of his “Musikalischer Glückwunschender Zuruff” for five voices and eight instrumental parts, composed in June 1671 for Duke Rudolphus Augustus of Brunswick and Lüneburg. His son, Nicolaus Adam Strungk, also became a musician, studying with his father and serving as an organist at the Magnuskirche in Brunswick from the age of twelve (Grove’s, 1922).