Carl Gotthelf Gerlach
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Carl Gotthelf Gerlach (31 December 1704 – 9 July 1761) was a
violinist
.
Life
Born in
Thomasschule in Leipzig, receiving musical training between 1716 and 1723, as an alto singer, violinist and keyboard player, from the Thomaskantor Johann Kuhnau. When Johann Sebastian Bach succeeded Kuhnau in 1723, it is likely that he taught Gerlach. After leaving school, Gerlach assisted with musical duties in the two principal churches in Leipzig, the Nikolaikirche and the Thomaskirche, including acting as a copyist; he occasionally escorted Bach during his travels around Germany.[1]
In 1727 he enrolled as a law student at
Leipzig Gewandhaus.[1]
In 1729, as Gerlach became more significant in musical circles, he received disproportionately more funding than Bach from the Leipzig city council; they preferred the progressive approach of the Neukirche to the traditional approach of the two main churches. Gerlach died in Leipzig after a long period of poor health, unmarried and heirless; his musical estate was purchased by the Breitkopf family, who later catalogued the large collection of manuscripts.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c Glöckner 2001
References
- ISBN 9780195170672. (subscription required)
- — (1984). "Handschriftliche Musikalien aus den Nachlässen von Carl Gotthelf Gerlach und Gottlob Harrer in den Verlagsangeboten des Hauses Breitkopf 1761–1769". Bach-Jahrbuch (in German). 70: 107–116.
- Jung, Hans-Rainer (2006). Das Gewandhaus-Orchester. Seine Mitglieder und seine Geschichte seit 1743 (in German). ISBN 3-936618-86-0.
External links
- Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, bach-cantatas.com
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