Johann Christian Kittel

List of music students by teacher: K to M#Johann Christian Kittel.

Training under Johann Sebastian Bach and Jakob Adlung is recorded. Joseph Martin Kraus, Johann Wilhelm Hässler and Christian Heinrich Rinck are recorded as having studied under Johann Christian Kittel. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music.

Kittel was born and died in Erfurt. He first studied with Jakob Adlung. He moved to Leipzig in 1748 and was a favourite – and the last – pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach until Bach's death two years later. He was appointed organist and teacher in Langensalza in 1751, following which he returned to Erfurt as organist of the Barfüßerkirche, in 1756, moving to the Predigerkirche in 1762. He refused many generous and more munificent offers, including one in 1790 from Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel to travel to Italy, remaining in Erfurt for the rest of his life. He played many evening recitals there and was famous as a virtuoso organist. Goethe, Herder, and Wieland all went to hear him play, and he made a concert tour to Hamburg in 1800, remaining there for a year while preparing a book of chorales for Schleswig-Holstein.

6 Sonaten... nebst einer Fantasie (Gera, 1789) 6 Veränderungen, über... Nicht so traurig (Saint Petersburg, 1797)

Der angehende praktische Organist, oder Anweisung zum zweckmässigen Gebrauch der Orgel bei Gottesverehrungen in Beispielen, textbook, 3 volumes (Erfurt, 1801–1808) Vierstimmige Choräle mit Vorspielen... für die Schleswig-Hollsteinischen Kirchen, 2 volumes (Altona, 1803) 24 Choräle mit 8 verschiedenen Bässen über eine Melodie, ed. J. C. H. Rinck (Offenbach, 1811) Grosse Präludien, 2 volumes (Leipzig) 24 kurze Choralvorspiele (Offenbach) Variationen über 2 Choräle (Leipzig) 24 leichte Choral-Vorspiele (Bonn and Cologne)