Johann Sigismund Scholze

Johann Sigismund Scholze alias Sperontes (20 March 1705 in Lobendau bei Liegnitz (today Lubiatów near Złotoryja) 28 September 1750 in Leipzig) was a Silesian music anthologist and poet.

He was the son of a clerk, and attended school in Liegnitz until the beginning of his studies in Leipzig.

In 1729 he was in Leipzig, where on 3 January, he got married with the widow from Halle, with whom he had begun a relationship.

His own funeral in poorer shape was on 30 September 1750.

We owe the discovery of the real identity of the poet to the musicologist Philipp Spitta, who published in 1885 a fundamental work Sperontes.

Detail from the title page to Singende Muse an der Pleisse , a collection of strophic songs published in Leipzig in 1736, by Johann Sigismund Scholze. [ 3 ]