Christian Friedrich Rolle

Christian Friedrich Rolle (born April 14, 1681 in Halle (Saale) ; † August 25, 1751 in Magdeburg ) was a German organist and composer of the Baroque era .

Life

Like Johann Sebastian Bach , Rolle comes from a Central German family of musicians whose home is Halle and whose first demonstrable representative is the Schallmeypfeiffer Simon Rolle, mentioned in Halle in 1681 . Nothing is known about Christian Friedrich Rolles childhood and youth.

Rolle was appointed as Quedlinburg city cantor with the title of director musices in the city cantorate of the market church St. Benedikti in Quedlinburg and married the officer's daughter Anna Sophia Kramer from Halberstadt in 1711 . Role took in 1716 on the revision of the newly built by Christoph Cuntzius and important organ in the Marienkirche in Halle in part, organ auditors were beside him and Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Kuhnau from Leipzig .

On November 19, 1721, Rolle was appointed to the General Cantorate of the St. Johannis Church in Magdeburg as the successor to Benedictus Christiani and was appointed to his office on February 13, 1722. He gave music lessons at the Magdeburg Old Town High School , but was released from all other teaching duties due to his high reputation.

In 1722, alongside Johann Friedrich Fasch and Georg Philipp Telemann , Rolle applied for the successor to the late Leipzig Thomaskantor Johann Kuhnau, but Johann Sebastian Bach was ultimately appointed to the position.

progeny

Christian Friedrich Rolle had four sons, of whom his third son Johann Heinrich Rolle was trained by himself and who was also a composer of great musical history.

Works

• St. Matthew Passion (1728)
• The Lamb of God , patient until death at Creutz , Passion according to Markus (1737)
• St. John Passion (1738)
• Luke Passion (1744)
• St. Matthew Passion (Second Composition) (1747)
• Violin Sonata in G major

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Friedrich Rolle in the catalog of the German National Library