Johann Philipp Bendeler

Johann Philipp Bendeler (baptized November 20, 1654 in Riethnordhausen near Erfurt ; † December 26, 1709 in Quedlinburg ) was a German organist and organ theorist.

Life

Bendeler was the son of the field preacher and later pastor Justus Bendeler . In 1681, at the age of 27, Bendeler got a job at the grammar school in Quedlinburg as a college nonus . In 1687 he advanced to college quintus and also worked there as cantor. This office held for the rest of his life.

Johann Philipp Bendeler died on December 26, 1709 in Quedlinburg at the age of 55. While playing the organ in the castle church, he died of a stroke.

As an organ theorist, Bendeler made a name for himself with his organopopeia . He was busy u. a. with the problem of temperature and he advocated the distribution of the comma (different vibrations of almost the same high, but differently calculated tones) on three fifths. Georg Andreas Sorge became one of his greatest critics here.

His Directorium musicum still suggests that Bendeler had to face a number of disputes with the school management.

Works

• Aerarium melopoeticum . - Nuremberg: sn, 1688
• Directorium musicum . - Quedlinburg: sn, 1706
• Organopopeia . - Leipzig: sn, 1690
• Planimetria practica . - Quedlinburg: sn, 1700
• Honestly paid debt or thoroughly executed quadratura circuli . - Frankfurt: sn, 1700

literature

• Heinz Becker:  Bendeler, Johann Philipp. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 36 ( digitized version ).
• Arrey von Dommer:  Bendeler, Johann Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 320.
• Georg A. Sorge: The organ builder who is well experienced in arithmetic and measuring art . [without publisher], Lobenstein 1773

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Philipp Bendeler in the catalog of the German National Library