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Johann Friedich Schweinitz (Organ, Kantor, Music Director, Copyist, Bach's Pupil) |
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Born: June 16, 1708 - Friedebach, near Rudolstadt, Thuringia, Germany
Died: July 10, 1780 - Pyrmont, Lower Saxony, Germany |
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Johann Friedrich Schweinitz [Johann Friedrich Schweiniz; Joannes Fridericus Schweinizius] was a German organist and Kantor. He was born the son of a farmer, blacksmith, and teacher in Friedebach HAe attended the schools in Pößneck and Saalfeld; from 1729 attended the Gymnasium in Coburg. He studied at the University of Leipzig from 1732 to 1735 (enrollment on June 23, 1732); and was a pupil of J.S. Bach there. On October 13, 1735 he enrolled at the University of Göttingen. In 1735, he founded there a collegium musicum on the Leipzig model and was its director until 1767; he began giving weekly concerts in 1736, founding the city’s tradition of academic music-making. From 1738 to 1743, he was also worked as organist at the Johannis and Paulinerkirche; From 1743 to 1780 he worked as Kantor and director musices at the Johanniskirche.
Johann Friedrich Schweinitz was supported by his Göttingen university teacher and former Thomasschule rector Johann Matthias Gesner on the occasion of an unsuccessful application for the Kantor office at the Lateinschule in Celle (1745) as "discipel von dem berühmten Hr. Bach in Leipzig" (disciple of the famous Mr. Bach in Leipzig). He is identified in J.S. Bach's manuscripts as Anon. L 104.
References: Koska: A-31; GND: 140172319; Bach Digital: 00004734 |
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Works of Bach he copied [Manuscript No. in Bach Digital / Work / Performance date] |
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D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 22: BWV 175 [1734/1735] |
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Sources:
1. Oxford Composer Companions J.S. Bach (Editor: Malcolm Boyd, OUP, 1999)
2. Grove Music Online (Authors: Percy M. Young/Bernd Wiechert, Accessed: June 18, 2014) Copyright © Oxford University Press 2007-2014;
3. Bernd Koska: Bachs Privatschüler in Bach-Jahrbuch 2019, English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2020)
4. Bach Digital Website (September 2019)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (June 2014, May 2020); Thomas Braatz (June 2014) |
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Links to other Sites |
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Schweinitz, Johann Friedrich (Bach digital)
Schweinitz, Johann Friedrich (Deutsche Biographie) |
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Bibliography |
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DBok ii, No. 541
Sources: Dok II, Nr. 541; Dok V, Nr. B 527a; D. Garbe und B. Wiechert, Der Director musices, Organist und Kantor Johann Friedrich Schweinitz. Ein Beitrag zur Musikgeschichte Göttingens im 18. Jahrhundert, in: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1989, S. 71–90; H.-J. Schulze, Der unterschätzte Bach-Schüler. Johann Friedrich Schweinitz, in: H.-J. Schulze, Bach-Facetten. Essays – Studien – Miszellen, Leipzig 2017, S. 229–239; BJ 2009, S. 244f. (P. Wollny); NBA IX/3, Nr. 201 (Anonymus L 104) |
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