Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow

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Memorial plaque for the composer Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow at the Marktkirche Our Dear Women in Halle (Saale).

Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow or Zachau (baptized on November 14, 1663 in Leipzig , † August 7, 1712 in Halle ) was a German composer of the Baroque .

His students included Georg Friedrich Handel , Gottfried Kirchhoff , Johann Krieger and Johann Gotthilf Ziegler .

origin

Zachow was the first son of the Leipzig violinist Heinrich Zachow, who originally came from Cölln on the Spree and was town piper in Eilenburg from 1676 , and his second wife Elisabeth, née. Maune, a daughter of the Halle town piper Gottfried Maune. He was baptized in the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig .

education

According to Johann Gottfried Walther's Musicalisches Lexikon, Zachow learned "in addition to waiting for school, both the organist and Stadt-Pfeiffer art ex fundamento" and attended one of the two Latin schools in Leipzig , probably the St. Thomas School . After his father was appointed Eilenburg town piper, Zachow received organ lessons from the Eilenburg organist Johann Hildebrandt and received musical suggestions from the Eilenburg cantors Johann Schelle (from 1677 Thomaskantor in Leipzig) and Basilius Petritz (from 1694 to 1713 cantor of the Dresden Kreuzkirche ).

Career history

In 1675 Heinrich Zachow took a job as a town piper in Eilenburg an der Mulde, where he trained several apprentices in the art of music for five years, as was customary in the guild at that time. With him and his son Friedrich Wilhelm learned different Stadtpfeifer instruments (such as trumpet, zinc , Diskantquerpfeife, Dulcian , quart trombone and bassoon ).
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow was elected organist of the Marienkirche in Halle on August 11, 1684 as the successor to the late Samuel Ebart . In addition to organ service, this most important musical office in Halle also included conducting church music with the Halle town choir and town musicians and the management of the town chorus musicus .

Zachow instructed his students, such as Georg Friedrich Handel , both in composition and on the “clavier” (meaning keyboard instruments ).

Private

Zachow had been married to Maria Dorothea Anschütz, a daughter of the Eilenburg city judge and mayor Georg Anschütz, since October 24, 1693, with whom he had three sons and two daughters.

To write the name

The spelling of the name Zachow is documented several times by the handwritten signatures of Zachow and his father. In contrast, the spelling Zachau can be found almost exclusively in music literature, archives and church records . Back then, however, the spelling of names was not as fixed as it is today.

Works (selection)

literature

CD recordings

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Walther : Musicalisches Lexicon or Musicalische Bibliothec. Wolffgang Deer, Leipzig 1732, pp. 654–655 ( online at Wikimedia Commons, PDF, 84 MB).
  2. ↑ buergerstiftung-halle.de accessed on June 16, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Zachow, Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zachau, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer of the baroque
DATE OF BIRTH baptized November 14, 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1712
Place of death Halle (Saale)