Johann Nenning (Spiridion)

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Johann Nenning (also known as Spiridion a Monte Carmelo) (b. 16th July 1615, Neustadt an der Saale d. 21st November 1685, Bamburg) was a German Carmelite composer. He earned his reputation mainly through his musical publications: Musica Romana, Bamberg, 1665 (a collection of motets of various Roman composers), Musica Theo-Liturgica, Würzburg, 1668 (five-voices masses of his own composition) and the Nova Instructio pro pulsandis organis, Bamberg 1670-1674. Biographical information comes mainly from the title pages and dedications of these works, but also from articles in music dictionaries (from Kaspar Prinz, 16906 to Fétis, 1876 and Riemann, 1882), as well as from research by a few german historians in the beginning of the twentieth century. The first extensive research about the Nova Instructio was lconducted by Bruce A. Lamott in his dissertation (Stanford, 1980). Important biographical data mentioned about Spiridion are mainly his birth in Neustadt an der Saale in 1615, his stay in Rome from 1643 to 1655 (during the Thirty Year War) where he probably acted as organist of the Collegium Germanicum, and his occupations in the Carmelite convent of Bamberg from 1655 to his death. There, a university was founded by the Jesuits in 1647, and the city could grow again after the disasters caused by the war. All the musical activities of Spiridion seem to be linked to the monastic milieu, although in Rome, after Frescobaldi’s death, Giacomo Carissimi attracted many German students s

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