Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel
Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (18 September 1697 (bapt.) – 7 May 1775) was a German organist and composer. He was born in Nuremberg, where he appears to have spent his whole life in various organists' posts, including: • St. Egidien, Nuremberg 1719–1743 • St.
Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- organist · composer
- Movements
- Baroque music
- Languages
- German
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Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (18 September 1697 – 7 May 1775) is described as a composer, organist and self-publisher in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel was born on 18 September 1697; the birthplace is Nuremberg, Germany, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel died on 7 May 1775; the place of death is Nuremberg, Germany, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Born at Nuremberg in 1697, died in Nuremberg in 1775.
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- Ahlgrimm, Isolde. Bach-Jahrbuch 1969. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. 55. 67–77. 1969. 10.13141/bjb.v1969.
- – reviews speculation that J. S. Bach did not compose the work.
- Oxford Composer Companions, J. S. Bach, 1999, p. 142
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