!!!Schmeltzl, Wolfgang auch W. Schmältzl

b. Kemnat (Germany), after 1500, 
d. St. Lorenzen am Steinfeld (municipality of Ternitz, Lower Austria), 
around 1561. Poet, pedagogue and musician. Taught at the Vienna 
Monastery of the Scottish Benedictines (Wiener Schottenstift) from at 
least 1540 to 1553, staged comedies on biblical themes there (7 
preserved), thus founded the German-language didactic drama in Austria 
and continued the tradition started by K.  Celtis and (B.  Chelidonius 
with their religious and pedagogical emphasis on vernacular language. 
The epic poem "Der Christlich und Gewaltig Zug in das Hungerland" 
(1556) narrates Archduke Ferdinand's campaign against the Turks, in 
which S. himself had taken part. His "Lobspruch der Hochloeblichen 
weitberuembten Khuenigklichen Stat Wienn in Osterreich" (1547) is an 
important work of Viennese cultural history. S. collected Viennese 
folk songs and published them in the collection "Guter seltzamer un 
kuenstreicher teutscher Gesang" (1544, the only four-part songbook of 
the first half of the 16th century).

!Further works
Aussendung der Zwelffpoten, 1542; Comoedia Judith, 
1542; Comoedia der Hochzeit Cana Galilee, 1543; Ein schoene kurtze und 
Christl. Comedi von dem plintgeborn Sonn, 1543; Comedia des verlornen 
Sons, 1545. - Edition: W. S. Der Wr. Hans Sachs, ed. by E. Triebnigg, 
1915.

!Literature
W. Salmen, Die literarische und musikhistorische Bedeutung 
von W. S., in: Die oe. Literatur, vol. 1, ed. by H. Zeman, 1986; M. 
Knedlik, W. S., in: Oesterreich in Geschichte und Literatur 37, 1993.



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