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Johann Trier (Composer, Organ, Bach's Pupil?) |
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Born: September 2, 1716 - Themar, Thuringia, Germany
Died: December 29, 1789 (buried: Janury 6, 1790) - Zittau, Saxony, Germany |
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Johann Trier was a German organist and composer. He was born the son of Johann Matthäus Trier in Themar. He matriculated at the University of Leipzig on June 2, 1741. During the following years he probably studied with J.S. Bach and by the mid-1740’s had become a prominent participant in several of Leipzig's musical societies.
By May 1, 1746 Johann Trier had assumed the direction of the collegium musicum formerly led by Georg Philipp Telemann and J.S. Bach; he probably remained in this position until 1747. Although he failed in his attempt to succeed J.S. Bach as Thomaskantor in 1750, Trier was unanimously chosen in 1753 from nine applicants (including Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) for the important position of music director and organist of the Johanniskirche in Zittau, which he held from 1754 until his death. Two of his pupils, J.G. Schicht and J.G. Schneider (the elder), achieved some eminence.
Johann Trier was esteemed during his lifetime mainly as ‘one of our greatest masters of the organ’ (Gerber). However, he was also the composer of a variety of polonaises and preludes for clavier and organ and of at least two cycles of cantatas for the church year. His organ and church works are in the late Baroque polyphonic style.
According to Löffler (1953), Johann Trier was "höchstwahrscheinlich Schüler Bachs, wofür er in Zittau allgemein galt" (most likely Bach's pupil, for which he was generally known in Zittau). From Zittau files, however, no corresponding reference has become known so far. Spitta (1880), together with Johann Peter Kellner (C-14), describes J. Trier merely as J.S. Bach's "geistiger Zögling" (spiritual pupil). The only clue to a possible pupil relationship seems to be the fact that J. Trier took over the former "Bachische" Collegium Musicum in Leipzig in 1746, and only until 1744.
References: Koska: C-25; GND: 104337036; Bach Digital: 00005123 |
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Sources:
1. Copyright © Oxford University Press (2007-2012; Author: Robert L. Marshall; accessed: July 3, 2012)
2. Bernd Koska: Bachs Privatschüler in Bach-Jahrbuch 2019, English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2020)
3. Bach Digital Website (July 2019)
Contributed by Thomas Braatz (July 2012), Aryeh Oron (May 2020) |
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Links to other Sites |
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Trier, Johann (Bach Digital) |
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Bibliography |
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EitnerQ | GerberL | GerberNL
R. Sietz: ‘Die Orgelkompositionen des Schülerkreises um Johann Sebastian Bach’, BJb 1935, 33-96
A. Schering: Johann Sebastian Bach und das Musikleben Leipzigs im 18. Jahrhundert, Musikgeschichte Leipzigs, iii ( Leipzig, 1941)
W. Neumann: ‘Das “Bachische Collegium Musicum”’, BJb 1960, 5-27
W. Neumann and Hans-Joachim Schulze, eds.: Bach-Dokumente (Kassel, 1963-79)
Sources 2: Spitta II, S. 729; Löffler 1929/31, Nr. 47; Löffler 1936, S. 119; Löffler 1953, Nr. 65; BJ 1960, S. 12 (W. Neumann); M. Bärwald, Italienische Oper in Leipzig (1744–1756), Beeskow 2016 (Forum Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik. 6.), S. 222, 270, 283; BJ 2018, S. 33 (H.-J. Schulze)
Reference 3: NBA V/12; Dok II, |
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