Christoph Gottlieb Frober

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Christoph Gottlieb Fröber (born August 27, 1704 in Langhennersdorf ; † May 14, 1759 in Delitzsch ) was a German cantor and composer .

Life

He studied from 1726 to 1731 at the University of Leipzig and during this time took private lessons with Johann Sebastian Bach . He was also in the local Collegium Musicum of Georg Balthasar Schott worked (until 1729, and then as Bach). On April 15, 1729 ( Good Friday ) a Brockes Passion was performed under his direction in the Neukirche in Leipzig, but his application for the vacant organist post of the church was unsuccessful the following month, the office went to Carl Gotthelf Gerlach . From 1731 he was cantor in Delitzsch. There he also set up a Collegium Musicum based on the Leipzig model.

plant

  • Brockes Passion 1729

literature

  • Arne Werner: On the music history of Delitzsch. In: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 1 (1919), p. 563 f.
  • Winfried Hoffmann: Leipzig's effects on the Delitzsch cantor Christoph Gottlieb Fröber. In: Contributions to Bach Research 1 , Leipzig, 1982, pp. 54–73.
  • Winfried Hoffmann: Telemann performances by the Delitzsch cantor and potential Bach student Christoph Gottlieb Fröber. In: Small contributions to Telemann research (Magdeburger Telemann Studies VII.), Magdeburg, 1983, pp. 10-20.
  • Malcolm Boyd (Ed.): Oxford Composer Companion - JS Bach , Oxford University Press, Oxford 1999, p. 179.
  • Hans-Joachim Schulze : Johann Friedrich Schweinitz, "A double of the famous Herr Bach in Leipzig". In: Gregory S Butler, George Stauffer, Mary Dalton Greer (Eds.): About Bach. University of Illinois, 2008, p. 82.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brockes Passion performed in 1729
personal data
SURNAME Fröber, Christoph Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cantor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1704
PLACE OF BIRTH Langhennersdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1759
Place of death Delitzsch