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Christoph Transchel (Composer, Keyboard Teacher, Bach's Pupil)

Born: June 12, 1721 - Braunsdorf, near Weißenfels, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Died: January 8, 1800 - Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Christoph Transchel was a German composer and keyboard teacher. He entered the Gymnasium in Merseburg in 1731 and was a pupil of Christoph Förster. He enrolled as a student of philosophy and theology at the University of Leipzig in 1742 (enrollment on June 21, 1742). He also studied privately with J.S. Bach while in Leipzig. In 1755 he established himself as a keyboard teacher in Dresden, where he died.

Christoph Transchel was first mentioned in 1782 in Forkel's Musikalischem Almanach without further comment as "J. Seb. Bachs Schüler" (J. Seb. Bach's pupil). Gerber's Lexikon from 1792 is more detailed during his time in Leipzig: "Als Musikbeflissener kam er nun bald in die Bekanntschaft des großen Joh. Sebast. Bach. Was ihm aber zu noch mehrererm Vortheile und noch größerer Ehre gereichte: er wurde dessen Schüler und Freund" (As a music-loving man, he soon came to know the great Joh. Sebast. Bach. But what gave him even more advantages and even greater honor: he became his pupil and friend). No statements are made about Transchel's teaching himself or from the time before J.S. Bach's death.

References: Koska: A-50; GND: 1042800758; Bach Digital: 00005115

 

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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Transchel, Christoph (Bach digital)

Bibliography

Sources: J. N. Forkel, Musikalischer Almanach für Deutschland, Leipzig 1782, S. 119 (= Dok III, Nr. 857); Gerber ATL, Bd. II, Sp. 671 (= Dok III, Nr. 950); Dok VII, S. 54; Löffler 1929/31, Nr. 49; Löffler 1936, S. 119; H. Volkmann, Christoph Transchel. Ein Schüler J. S. Bachs in Dresden, in: Festschrift Martin Bollert zum 60. Geburtstage, hrsg. von H. Neubert, Dresden 1936, S. 175–187; Löffler 1953, Nr. 67

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