Johann Kirnberger
Illustration — Johann Kirnberger Johann Philipp Kirnberger (also Kernberg; 24 April 1721, Saalfeld – 27 July 1783, Berlin) was a musician, composer (primarily of fugues) and music theorist. He studied the organ with Johann Peter Kellner and Heinrich Nicolaus Gerber, and starting in 1738 he studied with the violinist Meil in Sondershausen, but most significant is the time he spent from 1739 until 1741 (with breaks) studying performance and composition with Johann Sebastian Bach. Between 1741 and 1751 Kirnberger lived and worked in Poland for powerful magnates including Lubomirski, Poninski, and Rzewuski before ending up at the Benedictine Cloister in Lviv (then part of Poland).
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Johann Kirnberger
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- Born
- 1721. · Saalfeld.
- Died
- 1783. · Berlin.
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Occupation
- composer, musicologist, conductor and music theorist.
- Fields
- classical music.
- Movements
- Baroque music.
- Teachers
- Johann Peter Kellner and Johann Sebastian Bach.
- Languages
- German.
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Illustration — Johann Kirnberger Johann Philipp Kirnberger (also Kernberg; 24 April 1721, Saalfeld – 27 July 1783, Berlin) was a musician, composer (primarily of fugues) and music theorist. He studied the organ with Johann Peter Kellner and Heinrich Nicolaus Gerber, and starting in 1738 he studied with the violinist Meil in Sondershausen, but most significant is the time he spent from 1739 until 1741 (with breaks) studying performance and composition with Johann Sebastian Bach. Between 1741 and 1751 Kirnberger lived and worked in Poland for powerful magnates including Lubomirski, Poninski, and Rzewuski before ending up at the Benedictine Cloister in Lviv (then part of Poland).
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He spent much time collecting Polish national dances and compiled them in his treatise Die Charaktere der Tänze. Kirnberger played a significant role in the intellectual and cultural exchange between Germany and Poland in the mid-18th century. Kirnberger became a violinist at the court of Frederick the Great in 1751. He was the music director to the Prussian Princess Anna Amalia from 1758 until his death. Kirnberger greatly admired Johann Sebastian Bach, deeming him "the greatest of all composers". Kirnberger is known today primarily for his theoretical work Die Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik (The Art of Strict Composition in Music, 1774, 1779). The well-tempered tuning systems known as "Kirnberger II" and "Kirnberger III" are associated with his name (see Kirnberger temperament), as is a rational version of equal temperament (see schisma). One of his most familiar compositions is Fuga in C-dur für Orgel ("Fanfare" Fugue), which was formerly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach and then to his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
Training under Johann Peter Kellner and Johann Sebastian Bach is recorded. Johann Abraham Peter Schulz and Johann August Just are recorded as having studied under Johann Kirnberger. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music.
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Johann Kirnberger died.
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Johann Philipp Kirnberger and Authorship, Notes, 2013
Johann Philipp Kirnberger’s Study of Sound-Colour Correspondences: 300th Anniversary of Johann Philipp Kirnberger, Временник Зубовского института, 2021
Johann Philipp Kirnberger and the Bach Chorale Settings, BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, 2014
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- 1.Martin Just. Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin. 670 f. 1977. 3-428-00192-3.
- 2.Wolfgang Suppan, Armin Suppan. Das Neue Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens. Blasmusikverlag Schulz GmbH, Freiburg-Tiengen. 374. 1994. 3-923058-07-1.
- 3.Ernst Ludwig Gerber: [https://archive.org/details/neueshistorischb02gerb Neues historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler : welches Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken musikalischer Schriftsteller, berühmter Komponisten, Sänger, Meister auf Instrumenten, kunstvoller Dilettanten, Musikverleger, auch Orgel- und Instrumentenmacher, älterer und neuerer Zeit, aus allen Nationen enthält (1812)], Leipzig : A. Kühnel, 1812.
- 4.Conversations-Lexicon oder Encyclopädisches Handwörterbuch für gebildete Stände, 5. Band (I - L), Stuttgart: M.F. Macklot, 1817, p.355
- 5.Brief van Johann Philipp Kirnberger aan Johann Nikolaus Forkel gepubliceerd in 1871 in de "Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung" (AMZ) met de beschrijving van Kirnberger III. Gearchiveerd op 16 april 2023.
- 6.Der allezeit fertige Menuetten- und Polonoisenkomponist
- 7.Der allezeit fertige Polonoisen- und Menuettencomponist en het Würfel-Menuet. Gearchiveerd op 11 december 2022.
- 8.Recueil d'airs de danse caractéristiques I. Gearchiveerd op 25 september 2020.
- 9.Der allezeit fertige Polonoisen- und Menuettencomponist
- 10.Johann Philipp Kirnberger: Die Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik
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