Georg Balthasar Schott

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Georg Balthasar Schott (born October 22, 1686 in Schönau ; † March 26, 1736 in Gotha ) was a German composer , cantor and organist .

Life

Schott was born as the son of the schoolmaster Burkhard Schott in Schönau / Hörsel in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha . After attending grammar school in Gotha and the University of Jena (from 1709), Schott enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1714. A year later he applied unsuccessfully for the city chancellery in Gotha. On August 1, 1720, he was succeeded as Music Director of the New Church in Leipzig for Johann Gottfried Vogler . He held this office until 1729, after he unsuccessfully applied for the office of Thomaskantor in 1722/1723 and as city cantor for Chemnitz in 1727 .

Apparently as early as 1718 he had taken over the management of the Collegium Musicum von Vogler founded by Georg Philipp Telemann in 1701 , with which he worked weekly, initially with Mr. Hemm in the Raths-Wein-Keller , from 1723 with Mr. Gottfried Zimmermannen, on Wednesdays in the summer , on Wind-Mühl-Gasse, in the garden, from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m., and on Fridays in the winter time in the Caffée house, on Cather-Strasse, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. ( Zimmermannsches Kaffeehaus ). During this time he worked closely with Johann Sebastian Bach , who appeared as a guest conductor and soloist at the Collegium Musicum and who took over its direction after Schott's departure.

In 1729 he was appointed city cantor for Gotha, where he worked until his death. On September 19, 1730 he married Sophia Christina Conradi in Wechmar , the daughter of the pastor there.

plant

  • The judging Paris (drama, performed in 1722 in memory of Maria Josepha's first visit to Leipzig)
  • Country father! Hero August! (Ode, text: Johann Christoph Gottsched ; performed in 1728 for the birthday of August the Strong )
  • Pentecost cantata you incomprehensibly highest good
  • Cantata Come Holy Spirit, Holy God

literature

  • Hans Theodor David , Arthur Mendel (Ed.): The Bach Reader: a Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents. Norton, New York 1945.
  • Ulrich Siegele: Bach's position in the Leipzig cultural policy of his time. In: Bach Yearbook 1983, pp. 7–50; Bach Yearbook 1984, pp. 7–43; Bach Yearbook 1986, pp. 33–67.
  • Andreas Glöckner: The maintenance of music at the Leipzig New Church at the time of Johann Sebastian Bach , Edition Peters, Leipzig, 1990, p. 124f.
  • Andreas Glöckner: Comments on the Leipzig cantatas from 3rd to 6th Sunday after Trinity 1725. In: Bach-Jahrbuch 1992, p. 73.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Wolff: Die Welt der Bach Cantatas , Volume 2, JB Metzler, Stuttgart, 1996, p. 111.
  2. ^ Philipp Spitta: Johann Sebastian Bach , Volume 2, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig, 1921, p. 768.
personal data
SURNAME Schott, Georg Balthasar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, cantor and organist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1686
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönau
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1736
Place of death Gotha