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Johann Schneider (Composer, Organ, Violin, Bach's Pupil) |
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Born: July 16, 1702 (baptised: July 17, 1702) - Oberlauter, near Coburg, Bavaria, Germany
Died: January 5, 1788 - Leipzig, Saxony, Germany |
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Johann Schneider was a German organist, violinist, and composer. He was born the son of Johann Schneider (miller in Oberlauter, near Coburg in Bavaria), and grew up in Saalfeld. He studied with Nicolaus Müller in Oberlauter (singing, keyboard); and from 1717 to 1720 with Johann Hartmann Reinmann in Saalfeld (keyboard composition). He became a keyboard pupil of J.S. Bach in Köthen (Anhalt), perhaps around 1720/1721. He also studied the violin under Johann Gottlieb Graun in Merseburg and Johann Graf (1684-1750) in Rudolstadt.
In 1721 Johann Schneider became court organist and chief violinist (concert-master) at his home town of Saalfeld. From 1726 he was employed as a violinist in the Weimar court orchestra (Hofkapelle); and on December 23, 1729 he was appointed organist at the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig (substituted 1766). Lorenz Mizler, writing in 1747 (see BDok ii, no. 565), mentions him as a fine organist, and adds: 'his preludes on the organ are of such good taste that in this field, except for Mr Bach, whose pupil he has been, there is nothing better to be heard in Leipzig'.
Johann Schneider's instruction "bey dem Hrn. Capellmeister Bachen in Leipzig auf dem Claviere" (with Mr. Capellmeister Bach in Leipzig on the keyboard) was mentioned by Johann Gottfried Walther in his Lexikon (1732). According to the chronology of Schneider's biography, however, the student relationship in Köthen only came about around 1720/1721.
The possibility that Johann Schneider is identical with the J.S. Bach pupil known as Anon 5, who made numerous copies of J.S. Bach's keyboard works under the composer's supervision between about 1720 and 1725, has been raised by Marianne Helms (see NBA V/7, Kritische Bericht, pp. 183-195).
References: Koska: A-11; GND: 122081250; Bach Digital: 00004591 |
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Sources:
1. Article by Richard D.P. Jones in Malcolm Boyd (Editor): Oxford Composer Companion - J.S. Bach (Oxford University Press, 1999)
2. Bernd Koska: Bachs Privatschüler in Bach-Jahrbuch 2019, English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2020)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (February 2010, May 2020) |
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Use of Chorale Melodies in his works |
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Vater unser im Himmelreich, 2 Chorale Preludes for organ (CM: Vater unser im Himmelreich) |
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Links to other Sites |
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Schneider, Johann (Bach Digital) |
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Bibliography |
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Sources 2: Walther L, S. 554 (= Dok II, Nr. 324); Löffler 1929/31, Nr. 14; Löffler 1936, S. 110; Löffler 1953, Nr. 23; MGGo; BJ 2010, S. 163 (M. Maul); M. Maul, Homilius: wirklich ein Schüler Bachs? Überlegungen zu seiner Leipziger Zeit, in: „Ohne Widerrede unser größter Kirchenkomponist“. Annäherungen an Gottfried August Homilius, hrsg. von G. Poppe und U. Wolf, Beeskow 2017 (Forum Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik. 7.), S. 67–80; BJ 2018, S. 30 (H.-J. Schulze) |
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