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Merck toch hoe sterk
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Composer: Klaas Jan Mulder Organ: Laurenskerk - Main Organ - 1973 Marcussen & Son Software: Hauptwerk IV Views: 176
"The Phantom"
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Composer: * My Own Transcription Organ: Hereford Cathedral Willis Organ Software: Hauptwerk IV Views: 661
O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid
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Composer: Kittel, Johann Christian Organ: 1675/88 Hus/Arp Schnitger, Stade, Germany Software: Hauptwerk VII Views: 59
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Agnus_Dei (04/08/23)
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Kittel, Johann Christian
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Voxus Virtual Organs
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Müller Grote of Sint Bavo extended
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Software: | Hauptwerk IV |
Genre: | Baroque into Classical |
Description: | Johann Christian Kittel (18 February 1732 – 17 April 1809) was a German organist, composer, and teacher. He was one of the last students of Johann Sebastian Bach. His students included Michael Gotthard Fischer, Karl Gottlieb Umbreit, Johann Wilhelm Hässler and Christian Heinrich Rinck. Kittel was born and died in Erfurt. He first studied with Jakob Adlung, and moved to Leipzig in 1748 where he was a favourite pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach until his 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 Saxe-Weimar 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.
He considered himself to be "grounded in the principles of Bach" and aimed "to awaken, maintain and heighten feelings of devotion in the hearts of his hearers by means of music". His teaching and composition fulfilled this aim by a restriction to simple forms which were best suited to liturgical use. He wrote some large-scale organ works such as double chorale variations based on Bach's examples, though he was influenced by the contemporary galant style, with a strong emphasis on melody. His piano sonatas of 1789 have features in common with the Viennese classical school.
"O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid. J. Rist. [Easter Eve] first appeared in "Erste Zehen of his Himlische Liedert," published Lüneburg, 1641, where it is entitled “A sorrowful funeral hymn on the mournful entombment of our Saviour Jesus Christ, to be sung on Good Friday."
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