Gottlieb Benjamin Geier (Bach’s Pupil)

Born: May 1710 (baptised: May 23, 1710) - Eisleben, Saxe-Anhalt, Germany
Died: May 1762 (buried: May 17, 1762) - Eisleben, Saxe-Anhalt, Germany

Gottlieb Benjamin Geier was a German church musician. He studied theology at Leipzig University and was also a pupil of J.S. Bach in Leipzig between 1732 and 1737, after which he worked as Kantor in his native town, first at the Annenkirche, and from 1741 at the Nikolaikirche.

Source: Oxford Composer Companions J.S. Bach (Editor: Malcolm Boyd, OUP, 1999)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (January 2011); Thomas Braatz (January 2011)

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