Thomaskantor
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The Thomaskantor is the cantor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig. The choir was founded in 1212.
List of cantors
Name (biographical details) | Incumbency | Comments |
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Georg Rhau * um 1488 in Eisfeld † 6. August 1548 in Wittenberg |
1518–1520 | Rhau was also a publisher but no works of his own seem to have survived. |
Johannes Galliculus * um 1490 in Dresden † um 1550 in Leipzig |
1520–1525 | |
Valerian Hüffeler | 1526–1530 | |
Johannes Hermann * 1515 in Zittau † 22. April 1593 in Freiberg |
1531–1536 | |
Wolfgang Jünger * um 1517 in Sayda † 4. March 1564 in Großschirma |
1536–1539 | |
Johannes Bruckner | 1539–1540 | |
Ulrich Lange † 1549 in Leipzig |
1540–1549 | |
Wolfgang Figulus * um 1525 in Naumburg (Saale) † 1589 in Meißen |
1549–1551 | |
Melchior Heger * in Brüx (today: Most) |
1553–1564 | |
Valentin Otto * 1529 in Markkleeberg † April 1594 |
1564–1594 | |
Sethus Calvisius * 21. February 1556 in Gorsleben † 24. November 1615 in Leipzig |
1594–1615 | |
Johann Hermann Schein * 20. January 1586 in Grünhain † 19. November 1630 in Leipzig |
1615–1630 | |
Tobias Michael * 13. Juni 1592 in Dresden † 26. Juni 1657 in Leipzig |
1631–1657 | |
Sebastian Knüpfer * 6. September 1633 in Asch † 10. October 1676 in Leipzig |
1657–1676 | |
Johann Schelle * 6. September 1648 in Geising † 10. March 1701 in Leipzig |
1677–1701 | |
Johann Kuhnau * 6. April 1660 in Geising † 5. Juni 1722 in Leipzig |
1701–1722 | |
Johann Sebastian Bach * 21. March 1685 in Eisenach † 28. Juli 1750 in Leipzig |
1723–1750 | |
Johann Gottlob Harrer * 1703 in Görlitz † 9. Juli 1755 in Karlsbad |
1750–1755 | |
Johann Friedrich Doles * 23. April 1715 in Steinbach-Hallenberg † 8. February 1797 in Leipzig |
1756–1789 | |
Johann Adam Hiller * 25. December 1728 in Wendisch-Ossig (today Osiek Łużycki) bei Görlitz † 16. Juni 1804 in Leipzig |
1789–1801 | Hiller was conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra from 1781 till 1785. |
August Eberhard Müller * 13. December 1767 in Northeim † 3. December 1817 in Weimar |
1801–1810 | Müller was conductor of the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar from 1810 till 1817 |
Johann Gottfried Schicht * 29. September 1753 in Reichenau (Sachsen) † 16. February 1823 in Leipzig |
1810–1823 | |
Christian Theodor Weinlig * 25. Juli 1780 in Dresden † 7. March 1842 in Leipzig |
1823–1842 | Weinlig was also Kreuzkantor (conductor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor) from 1814 till 1817 |
Moritz Hauptmann * 13. October 1792 in Dresden † 3. January 1868 in Leipzig |
1842–1868 | |
Ernst Friedrich Richter * 24. October 1808 in Großschönau (Lausitz) † 9. April 1879 in Leipzig |
1868–1879 | |
Wilhelm Rust * 15. August 1822 in Dessau † 2. May 1892 in Leipzig |
1880–1892 | |
Gustav Schreck * 8. September 1849 in Zeulenroda † 22. January 1918 in Leipzig |
1893–1918 | |
Karl Straube * 6. January 1873 in Berlin † 27. April 1950 in Leipzig |
1918–1939 | |
Günther Ramin * 15. October 1898 in Karlsruhe † 27. February 1956 in Leipzig |
1939–1956 | Works still protected by copyright |
Kurt Thomas * 25. May 1904 in Tönning † 31. March 1973 in Bad Oeynhausen |
1957–1960 | Works still protected by copyright |
Erhard Mauersberger * 29. December 1903 in Mauersberg bei Marienberg † 11. December 1982 in Leipzig |
1961–1972 | Works still protected by copyright |
Hans-Joachim Rotzsch * 25. April 1929 in Leipzig |
1972–1991 | Works still protected by copyright |
Georg Christoph Biller * 20. September 1955 in Nebra (Unstrut) |
since 1992 | Works still protected by copyright |