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Matthias Sojka (Cmposer, Organ)

Born: February 1740 (baptised: February 12, 1740) - Vilémov, Bohemia
Died: March 13, 1817 - Vilémov, Bohemia

Matthias Sojka was born the son of Wenzel Sojka. He was Kapellmeister (also organist, keyboard player and violinist) in the Kapelle of Grafen Johann Wenzel Millesimo in Vilémov.

The fact that Matthias Sojka was J.S. Bach's pupil, as first emphatically claimed by Seyfried in 1838 and subsequently by Laurencin (1864) and Löffler (1929/1931, 1940/1948, 1953), was refuted by Culka in 1960. Even with a view to the date of birth, this seems impossible, and an allegedly missing letter of recommendation from J.S. Bach for ten-year-old M. Sojka has certainly never existed. In fact, it is likely that the names Bach and Zach were mixed up - the Bohemian organist and composer Jan Zach was the actual teacher of Sojka.

References: Koska: C-33

 

Sources:
1. Bernd Koska: Bachs Privatschüler in Bach-Jahrbuch 2019, English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2020)
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (May 2020)

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Bibliography

Sources 1: Encyclopädie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften oder Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst, hrsg. von G. Schilling, Bd. VI, Stuttgart 1838, S. 406f. (Seyfried); F. P. Laurencin, Ausgrabungen einiger altböhmischer Kirchencomponisten, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 60 (1864), S. 93ff., 105ff., 113ff., 129ff., 137ff., speziell S. 137f.; Löffler 1929/31, Anh. Nr. 11; BJ 1940/48 (Löffler); Löffler 1953, Nr. 75; BJ 1960, S. 60–64 (Z. Culka); Dok I, Anh. II Nr. 8; MGGo

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