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4 unusual facts about Thomaskantor


Johann Martin Steindorff

In 1722 he applied for the vacant post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but did not succeed and remained in Zwickau for the rest of his life.

Johannes Hermann

Johannes Hermann, also Johann Herrmann, (1515 – 22 April 1593 in Freiberg) was a German Thomaskantor, hymn writer and jurist.

Partita

Partita (also Partia, in German) was originally the name for a single-instrumental piece of music (16th and 17th centuries), but Johann Kuhnau (Thomaskantor till 1722, followed by Bach) and later German composers (notably Johann Sebastian Bach) used it for collections of musical pieces, as a synonym for suite.

Samuel Rüling

He must also have been in close proximity with the prominent Thomaskantor Sethus Calvisius.


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Erhard Mauersberger

Erhard Mauersberger (29 December 1903, Mauersberg, Saxony - 11 December 1982, Leipzig) was a German choral conductor, conducting the Thomanerchor as the fourteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach.

Johannes Hermann

Thomaskantor from 1531 to 1536, he became the first Protestant Kantor of Freiberg, and a jurist in 1540.

Reinhard Seehafer

In 1975, the music director Rolf Reuter recognized the talent of the young pianist and composer, and taught him in his conducting class at the Academy of Music and Drama "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig alongside Georg Christoph Biller, currently Thomaskantor, and Claus Peter Flor.


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