Johann Georg Ahle

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Johann Georg Ahle (baptized June 12, 1651 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ; † December 2, 1706 there ) was a German composer , organist , poet and Protestant church musician.

Life

He received musical training at an early age from his father, Johann Rudolph Ahle , who was also a composer and organist. After the death of his father in 1673 he succeeded him as cantor and organist at the Divi-Blasii-Kirche in Mühlhausen. His successor in this office was later Johann Sebastian Bach .

Like his father, he was appointed a member of the city council of Mühlhausen.

In 1680 he was awarded the poet's crown by Emperor Leopold I.

His compositional work is v. a. through arias (among other things he set some of his own poems to music) as well as musical implementations of poems and songs , e.g. B. by Johann Rist and Philipp von Zesen . Most of his works, however, are considered lost.

As recently as 1744, the geographer and polymath Johann Gottfried Gregorii counted the “poet crowned imperially” Ahle, like Johann Sebastian Bach and some Bach students, among the best German organists.

literature

Works

  • The golden sun brings life and bliss (Text: Philipp von Zesen)
  • Unstrutal nightingale
  • Musical talks in spring, summer, autumn and winter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. MELISSANTES, Gemüth's delightful historical handbook for citizens and farmers ..., Leipzig and Frankfurt 1744, pp. 756/757