Johann Gottlieb Görner
Johann Gottlieb Görner (born April 16, 1697 in Penig ; † February 15, 1778 in Leipzig ) was a German composer and organist .
Life
Görner attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig from 1712 and studied at the University of Leipzig from 1716 .
In 1716 he became organist at the St. Pauli University Church and in 1721 at the Nikolaikirche . From 1723 to 1756 he headed the Collegium musicum founded by Johann Friedrich Fasch in 1708 , which competed with Johann Sebastian Bach . In 1723 he became music director of the university church . His application for the Thomaskantorat was unsuccessful.
His brother was the composer Johann Valentin Görner . He was married twice and one of his children was the organist Carl Friedrich Görner . The singer Anna Magdalena Bach asked him in 1750 for the guardianship of her children.
literature
- Martin Petzoldt : Die Thomasorganisten zu Leipzig , in: Christian Wolff (Hrsg.): Die Orgeln der Thomaskirche zu Leipzig , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2012, pp. 95–137 (pp. 109–111), ISBN 3-374-02300- 2 .
Web links
Werner Fabricius (1656–1679) | Johann Schelle (1679–1701) | Johann Kuhnau (1701–1722) | Johann Gottlieb Görner (1723–1778) | Johann Adam Hiller (1778–1785) | Johann Georg Häser (1785–1809) | Johann Gottfried Shift (1808–1810) | Friedrich Schneider (1810-1818) | Johann Philipp Christian Schulz (1818–1827) | August Pohlenz (1827–1843) | Ernst Friedrich Richter (1843–1847) | Hermann Langer (1847–1887) | Hermann Kretzschmar (1887–1898) | Heinrich Zöllner (1898–1906) | Max Reger (1907–1908) | Friedrich Brandes (1908–1930) | Hermann Grabner (1930–1939) | Friedrich Rabenschlag (1939–1962) | Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (1963–1973) | Max Pommer (1973–1987) | Wolfgang Unger (1987-2004) | David Timm (since 2005)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Görner, Johann Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1697 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Penig |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1778 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |