Johann Christian Credius

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Johann Christian Credius  (born August 8, 1681 in Dardesheim ; † 1741 ) was a German composer and organist .

Life

His father Andreas Credius was rector in Halberstadt . Due to his early death, Credius grew up with his grandparents in Burg . He received singing and piano lessons and came to Braunschweig in 1695 , where he attended St. Catherine's School for three years . He then studied from 1698 to 1705 at the Halberstadt St. Johannis School, where he studied composition and the Musica Poetica of Johann Andreas Herbst . From January 1706 he was enrolled at the University of Helmstedt , but at the end of the year he got a job as a musician with those of Rössing in Berßel . In January 1707 he is again engaged as Collega quartus at the Halberstadt St. Johannis School and organist at the church there. In December 1709 he was appointed subrector and organist in Blankenburg , where Duke Ludwig Rudolf of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and Prince von Blankenburg noticed him. In 1710 he released him from his church duties and appointed him concertmaster at Blankenburg Castle and in 1722 Kapellmeister . On July 16, 1735, he also remodeled Papenius zu Stolberg's organ in the St. Martinikirche there. He probably died in Blankenburg.

His son Wilhelm Jacob Credius can be traced back to 1757–1763 as a singer with Georg Philipp Telemann in Hamburg .

plant

  • Sonata in E major for flauto traverso, viola da gamba and basso continuo (ca.1720)
  • Jacob and Rahel , Operetta, Blankenburg, 1712

literature

  • Johann Gottfried Walther: Musical Lexicon or Musical Library. Deer, Leipzig, 1732, p. 191.
  • Christof Römer (ed.): Braunschweig-Bevern: a princely house as a European dynasty 1667–1884. Landesmuseum, Braunschweig, 1997, p. 165.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Pape, Alfred Schirge: The organ building family Papenius and their students , Pape, 2005, p. 58ff.
  2. ^ Jürgen Neubacher: Georg Philipp Telemann's Hamburg Church Music and its Performance Conditions (1721-1767) , Olms, Hildesheim , 2009, p. 237ff.
  3. ↑ Libretto of the opera
personal data
SURNAME Credius, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and organist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1681
PLACE OF BIRTH Dardesheim
DATE OF DEATH 1741