Born: November 10, 1715 - Leipzig, Germany
Died: February 16, 1766 - Marienberg, Saale, Germany

The lawyer, Johann August Landvoigt, was the son of a gardener in Leipzig. He attended the Thomasschule from 1731 to 1737 and while there he wrote the text of the cantata ‘Thomana saß annoch betrübt’, performed on November 21, 1734 when the new Rector, I.A. Ernesti, was installed. Only Landvoigt's text is extant. In 1758 in Marienberg, Saale he married Sophie Friederike Schlegel, aunt of the famous poet and critic, August Wilhelm Schlegel.

Source: Oxford Composer Companion - J.S. Bach, edited by Malcolm Boyd (1999)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (May 2003)

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BWV Anh 19

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