Johann Caspar Vogler

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Johann Caspar Vogler (* 23 May July / 2 June  1696 greg. In Hausen ; † 1 June 1763 in Weimar ) was a German organist and composer and student of Johann Sebastian Bach .

Life

Vogler was born near Arnstadt in Thuringia . From 1706 he was a student of Johann Sebastian Bach , who was the organist there. Further lessons followed with Philipp Heinrich Erlebach and court organist Nicolaus Vetter in Rudolstadt . From 1710 to 1715 he was again a student of Bach in Weimar . During this time, he copied the two livres d'orgue of Jacques Boyvin . In 1715 he became organist in Stadtilm and on May 19, 1721 Bach's second successor as court organist in Weimar. In 1729 he applied for the position of organist at Leipzig's Nikolaikirche , but was defeated by Bach's student Johann Schneider . In the minutes of the council of December 24th, 1729, it is said that Vogler had made the church mad [...] and gambled too quickly . Another application as organist in the Peterskirche in Görlitz failed. In 1735 Vogler successfully applied to be the organist of the Marktkirche in Hanover . However, the Weimar Duke Ernst August refused to dismiss Vogler and appointed him deputy mayor, and two years later ruling mayor of Weimar. In 1744 the geographer and polymath Johann Gottfried Gregorii counted the court organist just like Johann Sebastian Bach and other Bach students among the best German organists. Vogler then worked in Weimar until his death.

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Vogler's St. Mark Passion is lost, as are his other pieces of polyphonic church music that can be found in catalogs from the 18th century.

Four chorale arrangements for organ have been preserved:

  • Jesus' suffering torment and death BWV Anh. 57
  • Oh head, full of blood and wounds
  • Adorn yourself, dear soul
  • Do it to me, God, according to your kindness

The first two are handwritten, the last two are printed in Vermischte musicalische Choral = Gedancken (Weimar, 1737). In their expressiveness and with their improvised interludes they resemble Bach's early style and, according to Gerber, point Vogler as the greatest master of the organ that he [Bach] formed .

Vogler was a copyist of some of Bach's works and was initially listed as scribe Anonymus 18 in Bach research . The complete fingerings contained in the transcripts, for example of the Prelude and Fughetta in C major BWV 870a, are of particular value for performance practice .

literature

  • Clemens Harasim: Vogler, Johann Caspar . In: The music in past and present (MGG), person part, volume 17. 2nd edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2007.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from MGG.
  2. ↑ MELISSANTES, Gemüth's delightful historical handbook for citizens and farmers… Leipzig / Frankfurt 1744, pp. 756/757
  3. ↑ Ernst Ludwig Gerber: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of the Tonkünstler . Volume 2. Breitkopf, Leipzig 1792. Quoted from MGG.
personal data
SURNAME Vogler, Johann Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnstadt
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1763
Place of death Weimar