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Peter Schimert (Organ, Music Director, Bach's Pupil) |
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Born: February 7, 1712 - Hermannstad, Transylvania (now: Sibiu, Romania)
Died: April 18, 1785 - Hermannstad, Transylvania (now: Sibiu, Romania) |
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Peter Schimert was a German organist and choral conductor. He studied at Universität Leipzig (enrolled on May 8, 1733); and privately with J.S. Bach in Leipzig from 1733 to 1738, after which he lived in Hermannstadt (Sibiu) for the rest of his life. From 1736 to 1762 he was "Turnermeister" (Capellmeister of the city musicians). From from 1742 (at the same time) he was also city organist. He was appointed organist and director chori musici there in 1745 and cathedral organist in 1757.
In a manuscript of Samuel Friedrich Stöck dated 1806, which was edited in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung in 1814, Peter Schimert is referred to as "Sebastian Bachische [r] Schüler", who "welcher selbst nach denen wiederholt gegen einige später [nach Deutschland] reisende Siebenbürger gemachte Aeußerungen seines, sich um die deutsche Musik so verdient gemachten Lehrers Sebastian Bach, einer seiner besten Schüler gewesen seyn soll" (who himself repeated after some against some later [to Germany] traveling Transylvanian made statements by his teacher Sebastian Bach, who is so well deserved of German music, who is said to have been one of his best students". The term Bach student thus goes back indirectly to Schimert himself. While Schimert's stayed in Leipzig around 1733 can be documented using the university register, the characterization as "one of his best students" seems to be willfully exaggerated.
References: Koska: A-33 |
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Sources:
1. Oxford Composer Companions J.S. Bach (Editor: Malcolm Boyd, OUP, 1999)
2. fine-print footnotes in the Bach-Dokumente
3. Bernd Koska: Bachs Privatschüler in Bach-Jahrbuch 2019, English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2020)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (June 2014, May 2020); Thomas Braatz (January 2011) |
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Sources: Q/L: Nationalbibliothek Budapest, Fol. Germ. 515 (Aufsatz über den Zustand der Musik im Großfürstenthum Siebenbürgen); Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung 16 (1814), Sp. 781–785, speziell Sp. 784; Löffler 1929/31, Anh. Nr. 10; Löffler 1953, Nr. 36; Schiffner (wie Fußnote 7), S. 133; Die Siebenbürger Sachsen. Lexikon. Geschichte – Kultur – Zivilisation – Wissenschaft – Wirtschaft – Lebensraum Siebenbürgen (Transsilvanien), hrsg. von W. Myß, Thaur 1993, S. 436 (K. Teutsch); Á. Sas, Das Musikleben der evangelischen Kirchen und Bethäuser in Ungarn im 18. Jahrhundert, in: Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 44 (2003), S. 337–392, speziell S. 351 und 376 |
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