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  • 7 - Telemann’s Donner-Ode and Lutheran Nature Theology

  • from Part III - Nature (and) Theology in the Late Vocal Works
  • Edited by Wolfgang Hirschmann, Martin Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, Steven Zohn, Temple University, Philadelphia
  • Book:
    Telemann Studies
    Published online:
    14 July 2022
    Print publication:
    04 August 2022, pp 165-178

  • Summary

    Telemann’s 1756 vocal composition Der grosse Name Gottes, commonly called Donner-Ode, is based on the poetic paraphrase of Psalms 8 and 29 by J. A. Cramer. Both the poetry and Telemann’s music convey the sense of the sublime that was a prominent theme in late eighteenth-century aesthetics. Whether or not the work was a response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, its theology is in accord with an orthodox Lutheran belief in God’s providence and omnipotence. While it was written late in Telemann’s life, the ideas are continuous with the early influence of physico-theologians, who regarded the natural world as part of a divine plan in which even destructive events such as storms and earthquakes had a benevolent purpose. Hamburg was a strong center for physico-theology in the early eighteenth century, and Telemann was personally connected with several adherents of this direction of thought, among whom the best known is Barthold Heinrich Brockes.