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Johann Gottlob Haase (Organ, Bach's Pupil) |
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Born: c1715 - Profen, near Zeitz, about 25 km south of Leipzig, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Died: After 1756 |
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Johann Gottlob Haase was a German organist. He was born the son of Kantor in Profen; and attended the Stiftsgymnasium (collegiate high school) in Zeitz. He attended as "Externus" the Thomasschule in Leipzig from August 1731 to 1735, and enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1735 (enrollment on January 11, 1735). He studied with J.S. Bach in Leipzig for over a year at this time and was a member of J.S. Bach’s Collegium Musicum. In 1740 he made unsuccessful application as organist and Mädchenschulmeister (girls' schoolmaster) in Pegau; In 1736 he received a good report from J.S. Bach on both his vocal and instrumental capabilities. J.S. Bach wrote a testimonial for him which has not survived, but Haase referred to it in a letter, dated November 18, 1756 (DBok i, No. 72), in pursuit of his application for the post of Schloßorganist (court organist) at Zeitz, left vacant after Johann Ludwig Krebs moved to Altenburg. He had apparently been living at Zeitz, not far from his native Profen, since at least 1743. Further whereabouts unknown.
Johann Gottlob Haase named J.S. Bach as his teacher in his two unsuccessful applications for Pegau in 1740 and Zeitz in 1756, but only spoke of "Lection im General bass" (lesson in the general bass). It is questionable whether a testimony mentioned in 1756 - after J.S. Bach's death - and allegedly destroyed in a fire, actually existed.
References: Koska: A-39 |
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Sources:
1. Oxford Composer Companions J.S. Bach (Editor: Malcolm Boyd, OUP, 1999)
2. fine-print footnotes in the Bach-Dokumente
3. Bernd Koska: Bachs Privatschüler in Bach-Jahrbuch 2019, English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2020)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (June 2014, May 2020); Thomas Braatz (January 2011) |
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Bibliography |
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Sources: Dok I, Nr. 72; Dok III, Nr. 685; Dok V, Nr. B 477a; A. Werner, Städtische und fürstliche Musikpflege in Zeitz bis zum Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts, Bückeburg 1922, S. 28; Löffler 1929/31, Nr. 36; Löffler 1936, S. 116; Löffler 1953, Nr. 52; H. Henkel, Orgeln im Umfeld Bachs, in: Bericht über die Wissenschaftliche Konferenz zum 5. Internationalen Bachfest der DDR in Verbindung mit dem 60. Bachfest der Neuen Bachgesellschaft. Leipzig, 25. bis 27. März 1985, hrsg. von W. Hoffmann und A. Schneiderheinze, Leipzig 1988, S. 113–124, speziell S. 117 |
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