Christoph Gottlieb Schröter

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Christoph Gottlieb Schröter (born August 10, 1699 in Hohenstein ; † May 20, 1782 in Nordhausen ) was a German composer.

Christoph Gottlieb Schröter

Life

Schröter joined the Dresden Kreuzschule as a choirboy in 1706 and then began studying theology in Leipzig in 1717 , which he broke off after a year. He held lectures on music in Jena in 1724 and became an organist in Minden in 1726 . From 1732 he worked as an organist in Nordhausen at the Nikolaikirche .

Schröter created an extensive work, including seven volumes of church cantatas , secular cantatas, a passion , serenades, concerts, overtures, sonatas, preludes and fugues for the organ and numerous occasional works, the majority of which, however, during the sacking of Nordhausen in the Seven Years War in 1761 was destroyed. In addition, he also wrote musicological works and invented a fortepiano - mechanics . In 1739 Schröter became a member of the Corresponding Society of Musical Sciences founded by Lorenz Christoph Mizler . He published some essays in Mizler's musical library . Ernst Ludwig Gerber counted him among the "most well-behaved organists of our time", but added that he and Seb. Bach as an organ player could not be compared at all, since he had the style of always playing staccato , while Bach preferred tied playing .

Around 1717 he invented two hammer mechanisms for harpsichords, which he could not develop further for financial reasons. Therefore he is considered a co-inventor of the piano .

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  1. ↑ deutsche-biographie.de: Schröter, Christoph Gottlieb
  2. ↑ sim.spk-berlin.de: On the history of the pianoforte
  3. ↑ bmlo.de: Schröter (Schroeter), Christoph Gottlieb
personal data
SURNAME Schröter, Christoph Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenstein (Hohenstein-Ernstthal)
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1782
Place of death Nordhausen