Kropfgans, Johann
Period: Baroque
Born: Sunday, October 14, 1708 in Breslau (now Wroclaw), Poland
Died: c. 1771 in Leipzig, Germany (most likely)
Nation of Origin: Poland/Germany
Major Works:
Many works for solo lute including:
6 menuets
menuet La jardiniaire
menuet and double
menuet a bonne nuit
Pastorella
Le postillon
3 partitas
Works for Ensemble include:
2 concertos
Sonata a 3
2 divertimentos
Other Information:
Quick Facts:
- Prolific German lutenist and composer.
- His father, younger brother, and younger sister were also lutenists.
- Studied with Silvius Leopold Weiss.
- After 1735 he is known to have been at the Kapelle of Count Heinrich von Brül.
- Visited Berlin in 1737
- Visited J. S. Bach in Leipzig in summer of 1739 in the company of Silvius Weiss and W. F. Bach.
- Moved to Leipzig in 1763 and performed until 1769.
- He was in demand for his skill in accompanying recitative on the theorbo.
- He wrote a great deal of music but little survived.
General Bibliography:
Bukofzer, Manfred F., Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach, W.W. Norton & Company, November 1947, ISBN: 0393097455
Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music, Prentice Hall, December 1990, ISBN: 0130584967
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2004, ISBN: 0195170679
Rutherford-Johnson, Tim, Kennedy, Michael, and Kennedy, Joyce The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 6th Edition, 2012, ISBN: 0199578109
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