Georg Böhm (composer)

Georg Böhm (born September 2, 1661 in Hohenkirchen , † May 18, 1733 in Lüneburg ) was a German organist and composer of the Baroque era .

Life

Georg Böhm received his first musical training from his father, a teacher and organist. After his father's death in 1675, he attended the Latin school in Goldbach and then the grammar school in Gotha , from which he graduated in 1684.

After studying in Jena , he stayed in Hamburg for a few years and then worked as an organist at the St. Johannis Church in Lüneburg. In this time was Johann Sebastian Bach in Lüneburg free disciple of Michaelis monastery and sang as Diskantist in Mette choir. Böhm's influence on Bach's early organ works and piano suites can be suspected critically, but not proven. Böhm held the position of organist until his death in 1733.

In 2006 , copies of organ works on paper with Böhm's watermark discovered in the old holdings of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar suggest that 15-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach made them for organ lessons with Georg Böhm.

Works

Böhm wrote cantatas , motets , piano and organ works; His ornate chorale arrangements are particularly well known . The composer's St. Luke Passion, ascribed to Johann Christopher Jauch , is considered lost . The St. John Passion , which for a long time was ascribed to Georg Friedrich Händel , possibly comes from Böhm .

literature

• Klaus Beckmann: The North German School. Organ music in Protestant Northern Germany between 1517 and 1755. Part II Heyday and decline 1620-1755 . Schott, Mainz 2009
• Henning Müller-Buscher : Studies on the chorale arrangements by Georg Böhm (1661-1733) . Dissertation University of Regensburg 1972; Laaber-Verlag 1979.
• Philipp Spitta:  Böhm, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 62.
• Erich Valentin:  Böhm, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 381 ( digitized version ).
• Pieter Dirksen : Georg Böhm's Keyboard Music: Questions of Authorship and Connections with the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach . In: BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute 49 (2018), pp. 93–115.

Web links

Commons : Georg Böhm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Georg Böhm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Georg Böhm  in the German Digital Library
• Sheet music and audio files by Georg Böhm in the International Music Score Library Project
• Catalog of works on Klassika
• Biography at Bach Cantatas (English)