Baroque · Germany and Central Europe
1681 – 1767
Magdeburg - Hamburg
Review
Almost self-taught, he studied law in Leipzig, where he founded a college music. After passing through Sorau, Eisenach and Frankfurt, he was a musical director of Hamburg for 46 years.
He wrote more than three thousand works and in his time was more famous than Bach: in 1722 Leipzig chose him as a singer of St. Thomas, as he rejected and ended up occupying Bach. He was best man for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
Main works
- Water music «Hamburger Ebb'und Flush» (1723)
- Der getreue Music-Meister (1728)
- Parisian quarters (1730, 1738)
- Fantasy for flute and violin alone (1732-1735)
- Tafelmusik (1733)
- Concert for major sun viola TWV 51: G9
- Suite Burlesque de Quixotte
- Oratory Der Tag des Gerichts (1762)
