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Gottlieb Benjamin Geier (Kantor, Organ, Bach’s Pupil) |
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Born: May 1710 (baptised: May 23, 1710) - Eisleben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Died: May 1762 (buried: May 17, 1762) - Eisleben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany |
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Gottlieb Benjamin Geier [Geierus] was a German church musician. He was born the son of Benjamin Geier (organist in Eisleben); and studied with his father and the Kantor Wiemer in Eisleben. He studied theology at the Univesity of Leipzig (enrollment on May 19, 1732), and was also a pupil of J.S. Bach in Leipzig between 1732 and 1737. After his studies, he worked in his native town of Eisleben: from 1737/1738 as Kantor and organist at the Annenkirche (until 1739 as a substitute); from 17411 (or 17552) as Kantor at the Nikolaikirche; and from 1755 as Sextus at the Gymnasium.
Gottlieb Benjamin Geier mentioned his lessons with J.S. Bach in connection with an application in Eisleben (probably regarding the Nikolaikantorat 1739).
References: Koska: A-30; GND: 105342728X |
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Source:
1. Oxford Composer Companions J.S. Bach (Editor: Malcolm Boyd, OUP, 1999)
2. Bernd Koska: Bachs Privatschüler in Bach-Jahrbuch 2019, English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2020)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (January 2011, May 2020); Thomas Braatz (January 2011) |
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Sources: Dok II, Nr. 488; Löffler 1953, Nr. 41; A. Prüfer, Aus Eislebens musikalischer Vergangenheit, in: Festschrift Hermann Kretzschmar zum 70. Geburtstag, Leipzig 1918, S. 119–121; M. Könnecke, Die Orgeln und Organisten der St. Andreaskirche zu Eisleben, in: Mansfelder Blätter. Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte und Altertümer der Grafschaft Mansfeld in Eisleben 24 (1910), S. 97–124, speziell S. 113f.; BJ 2005, S. 102f. (M. Maul) |
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