Johann Gottlieb Schneider

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Last places of activity of Johann Gottlieb Schneider: Gnadenkirche and Kantorhaus in Sorau

Johann Gottlieb Schneider (born July 19, 1797 in Alt-Gersdorf ; † August 4, 1856 in Hirschberg ) was a German organist and composer .

Life

Johann Gottlieb Schneider was born on July 19, 1797 in Alt-Gersdorf in Upper Lusatia, the youngest of three sons of the school teacher and organist Johann Gottlob Schneider senior (1753-1840). From his father he received his first general education and instruction in instrumental playing (including piano, organ, violin, violoncello and various wind instruments).

After he had reached the age of ten, he attended high school in the official city of Zittau. There he received intensive music training from the local organist, who taught him in particular to play the organ and figured bass, while the cantor Schönfeld Schneider devoted himself to singing.

After completing his high school education in Zittau, Johann Gottlieb Schneider went to Leipzig . After being at the local university had studied a year he first settled as a music teacher in Bautzen down. There he received the appointment as city organist in Sorau in 1817 . Here he worked at the Sacred Heart Church .

In 1825 Schneider went to Hirschberg in Silesia as an organist , where he worked at the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross or the Church of Mercy. He died there in 1856 at the age of 59 of nerve fever.

In terms of importance he lagged behind his two older brothers, but made lasting contributions to the maintenance of music in Silesia. He also composed a number of organ and piano works, which, however, remained unprinted and were therefore hardly distributed.

literature

  • The organist Johann Gottlieb Schneider. In: NZM , 47, 1857.
  • Eduard Bernsdorf: New Universal Lexicon of Music Art: For artists, art lovers and all educated people. Volume 3. Offenbach 1861, p. 496.
  • Egbert Wünsche: The Saxon organ king Johann Schneider - a son of Neugersdorf. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 42, 1996, No. 6, pp. 358-363.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Kneschke: Leipzig for 100 Years, Leipzig 1867, p. 311.
  2. ↑ August Scheide: On the history of the chorale prelude. 1926, p. 206.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Johann Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt-Gersdorf
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1856
Place of death Hirschberg