Pisendel, Georg Johann
Period: Baroque
Born: Friday, December 26, 1687 in Caldolzburg, Bavaria (Germany)
Died: Tuesday, November 25, 1755 in Dresden, Germany
Nation of Origin: Germany
Major Works:
Violin concertos and works for solo violin
Other Information:
German violinist and composer. Began study of violin with Corelli in 1696 while a choirboy at the chapel of the Margrave of Ansbach. He was a gifted young violinist. In 1709 he began his studies at the University in Leipzig. In 1712 he was appointed by the King of Poland as Kapellmeister at Dresden. As part of the suite of the hereditary prince of Saxony, he traveled to Paris (1714), Berlin (1715), Italy (1716-17), and Vienna (1718). In Italy, he studied with Vivaldi who later dedicated a concerto to him. He became Konzertmeister at the Saxon court at Dresden in 1730. From 1731 until his death he led the opera orchestra under Hasse. Pisendel was most influential as a violin virtuoso and teacher but wrote a small body of concertos and violin solos.
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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