Kuhnau's portrait, from a hand-colored 1689 edition of his Neue Clavier-Übung, erster Theil
Born
(1660-04-06)6 April 1660
Geising, Saxony
Died
5 June 1722(1722-06-05) (aged 62)
Leipzig
Occupations
Polymath
Composer
Thomaskantor
Johann Kuhnau (German:[ˈkuːnaʊ]; 6 April 1660 – 5 June 1722) was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today. He was also active as a novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, and was able to combine these activities with his duties in his official post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, which he occupied for 21 years. Much of his music, including operas, masses, and other large-scale vocal works, is lost. His reputation today rests on his Biblical Sonatas, a set of programmatic keyboard sonatas published in 1700, in which each sonata depicted in detail a particular story from the Bible. After his death, Kuhnau was succeeded as Thomaskantor by Johann Sebastian Bach.
JohannKuhnau (German: [ˈkuːnaʊ]; 6 April 1660 – 5 June 1722) was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today. He was also active as a novelist...
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"penny-pinching". JohannKuhnau had been Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1701 until his death on 5 June 1722. Bach had visited Leipzig during Kuhnau's tenure: in...
organ and harpsichord lessons with JohannKuhnau. The future composer Christoph Graupner was also a student of Kuhnau at the time.[citation needed] Heinichen...
Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas. Johann Adolf Scheibe (writing in 1745) considered him an equal to JohannKuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp...
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and violin) Hendrik Andriessen: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of JohannKuhnau (string orchestra; 1935) Franz Schmidt: The finale of Schmidt's A major...
also paid tribute to the "virtuosi prattici" (performer virtuoso). JohannKuhnau in his The Musical Charlatan (Der musikalische Quack-Salber, 1700) defined...
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regular visits to Jean-Baptiste Volumier in Berlin, he is reported by JohannKuhnau to have spent a lot of time practising his keyboard skills on an enlarged...
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enjoyed a succession of particularly illustrious directors, including JohannKuhnau (1688), refounded by Telemann (1702), and Bach (1729–1737), who composed...
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compositions by Bach (part of BWV 914), Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Telemann, JohannKuhnau and others. One of the last pieces he entered, likely around the time...
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