Caspar Daniel Krohn
Caspar Daniel Krohn (born October 25, 1736 in Hamburg ; † April 30, 1801 there ) was a German organist and composer .
Life
Krohn was a son of the Hamburg trumpeter Peter Hinrich Krohn and a student of Georg Philipp Telemann . From 1769 he was organist at the main church St. Petri , initially as a substitute for the organist Johann Ernst Bernhard Pfeiffer († 1674), his father-in-law, and at the St. Johannis Church in Hamburg.
His periodical piano sonatas were examined by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and are ( posthumously ) dedicated to him.
Works
- Preludes and Canonizing & Fugging Choirs for the Organ ( manuscript ).
- Six little sonatas for the piano , Hamburg 1787.
- Six periodical piano sonatas , Hamburg 1789.
literature
- Ernst Ludwig Gerber : New historical-biographical lexicon of the Tonkünstler. Vol. 3 Col. 131, 1813.
Web links
- Works by and about Caspar Daniel Krohn in the German Digital Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Caspar Daniel Krohn in the International Music Score Library Project
- Notes on the life and work of Caspar Daniel Krohn on a private website The students of Johann Sebastian Bach
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data based on Jürgen Neubacher: Georg Philipp Telemann's Hamburg church music and its performance conditions (1721-1767): organizational structures, musicians, casting practices. Olms, Hildesheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-487-13965-4 , p. 437
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krohn, Caspar Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1736 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1801 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |