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Christian Friedrich Gabler (Kantor, Bach's Pupil) |
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Born: October 1730 (baptised: October 13, 1730) - Klosterlausnitz, Thuringia, Germany
Died: February 23, 1800 - Schleiz, Thuringia, Germany |
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Christian Friedrich Gabler was born the son of Johann Christian Gabler (schoolmaster in Klosterlausnitz). He enrolled at the Thomasschule in Leipzig on May 12, 1748; studied there from 1748 to 1754, and was a J.S. Bach's pupil; and at Universität Leipzig from 1755 (enrolled on April 2, 1755). After his studies, he worked as worked as Hof- und Stadtkantor (court and city cantor) in Schleiz from 1757.
Christian Friedrich Gabler mentioned J.S. Bach as his teacher in an unsuccessful application for the Kantor office in Plauen in 1756, and not in connection with the Thomasschule and therefore related to private lessons. Furthermore, in 1772 the Schleiz school inspector Weyse said that he had heard a year ago that J.S. Bach had said about Gabler, "Daß von den vielen Scholaren, die er unter seiner Unterweisung gehabt, er fast kein geschickteres Subjectum angetroffen habe als diesen" (Of the many scholars he had had under his instruction, he had encountered almost no more clever subject than this). t is doubtful, however, that this corresponds to the facts. It still needs to be clarified from whom Weyse received this information.
References: Richter: 291; Koska: A-59; GND: 1025289595 |
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Sources:
1. Bernd Koska: Dissertation "Bachs Thomaner als Kantoren in Mitteldeutschland" (Beeskow 2018), Anhang VII.1 Die Alumnen der Thomasschule 1710-1760, English translation by Aryeh Oron (April 2020)
2. Bernd Koska: Bachs Privatschüler in Bach-Jahrbuch 2019, English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2020)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (April- May 2020) |
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Sources 1: StA Schleiz, B-9-1-4-8 (Anstellung eines Rektors und anderer, 1729–1731) und B-9-1-4-12 (Wiederbesetzung der Stelle des Figuralkantors. 1742. 1757)
Literature 1: Böhme 1906, S. 148; Richter 1907, Nr. 291; Dok III, Nr. 682; Blanken 2012, S. 305–308; Wollny 2013, S. 141
GND: 1025289595
Sources 2: Dok III, Nr. 682; W. Böhme, Geschichte des Fürstlichen Gymnasium „Rutheneum“ zu Schleiz, Schleiz 1906, S. 148; Löffler 1936, S. 119; Löffler 1953, Nr. 77; C. Blanken, Die in Grimma überlieferten Kantaten des Schleizer Kapelldirektors Johann Georg Reichard (1710–1782) unter Graf Heinrich XII. zu Reuß-Schleiz, in: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach und die protestantische Kirchenkantate nach 1750, hrsg. von W. Hirschmann und P. Wollny, Beeskow 2012 (Forum Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik. 1.), S. 285–311, speziell S. 305–308; BJ 2013, S. 141 (P. Wollny): |
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