Johann Heinrich Buttstett

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Johann Heinrich Buttstett ( Buttstädt , Buttstedt ) (born April 25 . Jul / 5. May  1666 greg. In Bindersleben at Erfurt ; † 1. December 1727 in Erfurt) was a German organist and composer of the Baroque .

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Buttstett came from a family of pastors , teachers and musicians in Erfurt , his father Johann Heinrich Buttstett († 1702) studied theology at the University of Erfurt and had been a pastor in Bindersleben since 1664. As the oldest of three brothers, Buttstett attended the Ratsgymnasium in Erfurt from 1681 to 1684 and then became an organist at the Reglerkirche and teacher at the school belonging to it.

As his organ teacher he referred to Johann Pachelbel , who was organist at the Erfurt Predigerkirche from 1678 to 1690 and there a. a. also gave organ lessons to Johann Sebastian Bach's older brother , Johann Christoph , who had been organist in Ohrdruf since 1690 . Buttstett's brother Georg Christoph († 1748), Johann Heinrich Buttstett's second eldest son, was his father's successor from 1702 and later pastor in Bechstedt .

In 1687 Buttstett took over the office of organist and preacher at the merchant church and school and in the same year married Martha Lämmerhirt († 1711), the daughter of the hospital priest Hieronymus Lämmerhirt († 1699), who was born to Johann Sebastian Bach's mother, a born Lämmerhirt, was related to the Bach family. The marriage had ten children. The two sons Johann Laurentius and Johann Samuel were later organists themselves. After Johann Pachelbel left Erfurt in 1690 to go to Stuttgart in the service of the Duchess Magdalena Sibylla , the important organist office at the Predigerkirche was temporarily held by Nicolaus Vetter . When he became court organist in Rudolstadt in 1691 , Buttstett succeeded him on July 19, 1691 with the title of council organist. He held this office until his death and was also the organist at a Catholic church in Erfurt, probably at St. Severi .

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Buttstett not only composed numerous organ works for his office at the Protestant Predigerkirche, but also organ music and masses for Catholic services. Buttstett's students include Georg Friedrich Kauffmann and Johann Gottfried Walther .

In a controversy with Johann Mattheson , whose work The newly opened Orchester (1713) sided with modern, gallant music , Buttstett replied with his work Ut Mi Sol, Re Fa La, Tota Musica et Harmonia Aeterna (1716), in which he wrote the old Defended beliefs and the “ right path to true music ”.

Buttstett is characterized by his student Johann Gottfried Walther in a letter dated October 3, 1729, as a quirky and greedy scholar who was reluctant to pass on his knowledge and skills.

In 1744 the geographer and polymath Johann Gottfried Gregorii counted the organist of the Erfurt Predigerkirche, as well as Johann Sebastian Bach and some Bach students, among the best German organists.

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  1. ↑ Melissantes: Gemüths entertaining historical handbook for citizens and farmers ..., Leipzig and Frankfurt 1744, p. 756/757.
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SURNAME Buttstett, Johann Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buttstädt, Johann Heinrich; Buttstedt, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1666
PLACE OF BIRTH Bindersleben
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1727
Place of death Erfurt