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Johann Gottlieb August Fritzsche (Copyist, Musician, Composer, Bach's Pupil) |
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Born: January 27, 1727 - Düben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Died: not determined (Leipzig?) |
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Johann Gottlieb August Fritzsche [Fritzsch] was born the son of Johann Wilhelm Fritzsche (lawyer in Düben). He enrolled at the Thomasschule in Leipzig on July 6, 1740; studied there from 1740 to 1745; and at Universität Leipzig from 1745. As a Thomaner he was in Choir I from May 17, 1744 (Pentecost) to June 6, 1745 (Pentecost). He was prematurely dismissed owing to immoral conduct and laziness. After his studies, he worked as musician and composer in Leipzig.
When Peter Wollny discovcred an autograph Bach copy of Franccsco Gasparini's Missa canonica within the music manuscript collection of the Weißenfels St. Nicholas Church, he was able to show by consulting the handwritten entries of the matriculation register that J.S. Bach copied the piece with the assistance of his student Johann Gottlieb August Fritzsche, who became a Thomaner in 1740, and was one of J.S. Bach's most ambitious students. On leaving the school in 1745, he took a leading role in Leipzig concert life and composed many Singspiele for the coffee houscs. These matriculation entries establish our view of the typical biography of a Bach-Thomaner: after they left the Thomasschule they usually attended Leipzig University and later became Kantor or organist in a central German city. |
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Works of Bach he copied [Manuscript No. in Bach Digital / Work / Performance date] |
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D-WFe 191: Francesco Gasparini: Kyrie und Gloria aus der Missa canonica, BNB deest [c1740] |
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Works |
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6 Polonaises for Keyboard (Klavier): N.1 C Major; N.2 F Major; N.3 B flat Major; N.4 G Major; N.5 E Major; N.6 B minor. |
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Sources:
1. Bernd Koska: Dissertation "Bachs Thomaner als Kantoren in Mitteldeutschland" (Beeskow 2018), Anhang VII.1 Die Alumnen der Thomasschule 1710-1760, English translation by Aryeh Oron (April 2020)
2. Andreas Glöckner, Sabine Thomas and Melvin Unger: Alumni and Externals in the Choirs of the Thomas School during Bach's Time in Bach, Vol. 40, No. 1 (2009), pp. 17-22 (published by: Riemenschneider Bach Institute)
3. Bach Digital Website (November 2019)
4. Robin A Leaver (Editor): The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach (Routledge, 2016)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (April 2020) |
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Links to other Sites |
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Fritzsche, Johann Gottlieb August (Bach Digital) |
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Bibliography |
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Literature: Richter 1907, Nr. 216; Wollny 2013, S. 132f.; Bärwald 2016, S. 227f.
GND: 140820426 |
