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Ewaldt Hintz [Hinsch] was a German organist and composer. He was a pupil of Froberger. About 1656 he was organist to the Danish court, and he was Paul Siefert’s successor as organist of St Marien, Danzig, from about 1660 to about 1666. His only extant work, an elaborate organ chorale, Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, is found in the Pelplin Tablature (PL-PE) among a group of compositions intabulated about 1680. Only the name Ewaldt is given in the tablature, and the piece has been published under this name twice (AMP, ii, 1964, facs. repr., and CEKM, x/1, 1965); Klaus Beckmann has since plausibly identified ‘Ewaldt’ with Hintz and published the chorale again (Anton Neunhaber und Ewaldt Hintz: drei Choralbearbeitungen, Wiesbaden, 1974). More reliable, however, is the edition by J. Erdman (Utwory organowe z tabulatury pelplińskiej [Organ works from the Pelplin Tabulature], Warsaw, 1981). Judging by his style Hintz was influenced by the north German school of organist composers. |
