Spitta
Spitta is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Friedrich Spitta (1852–1924), German Protestant theologian * Heinrich Spitta (1902–1972), German music educator *Philipp Spitta (1841–1894), German music historian and musicologist *Philipp Spitta (poet) Karl Johann Philipp Spitta (1 August 1801 – 28 September 1859) was a German Protestant religious poet. Biography Born in Hanover, he was educated at Göttingen, and from 1824 to 1828 he was a tutor near Lüneburg, and there wrote the most fa ...

Philipp Spitta
Julius August Philipp Spitta (27 December 1841 – 13 April 1894) was a German music historian and musicologist best known for his 1873 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach. Life He was born in , near Hoya, and his father, also called Philipp Spitta, was a theologian and wrote the Protestant collection of hymns entitled ''Psalter und Harfe''. As a child, the younger Spitta learnt the piano, pipe organ, and musical composition. He studied theology and classical philology at the University of Göttingen from 1860, graduating in 1864 with a Ph.D. for a dissertation on Tacitus (''Der Satzbau bei Tacitus'', 1866). While at university, he composed, wrote a biography of Robert Schumann, and became friends with Johannes Brahms. He became a teacher of Ancient Greek and Latin language in, successively, Reval, Sondershausen, and Leipzig, while pursuing his interest in and lecturing on music history in general and Johann Sebastian Bach in particular. His Bach study began to be publi ...
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Friedrich Spitta
Friedrich Spitta (11 January 1852 – 7 June 1924) was a German Protestant theologian. Biography Spitta was born at Wittingen, Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ..., the son of German hymn writer Philipp Spitta (poet), Karl Johann Philipp Spitta and brother of Philipp Spitta, Philipp (music historian and musicologist best known for his biography of Johann Sebastian Bach). Friedrich studied at the universities of university of Göttingen, Göttingen and University of Erlangen, Erlangen, where he was a pupil of Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann.Spitta, Friedrich Adolf Wilhelm
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Heinrich Spitta
Heinrich Arnold Theodor Spitta (19 March 1902 – 23 June 1972) was a German music educator, composer and musicologist. Life Born in Strasbourg, Spitta came from a family of musicians and theologians. His father was the theologian Friedrich Spitta and his uncle the musicologist and Bach biographer Philipp Spitta. Spitta studied with Arnold Mendelssohn and Hermann Grabner and was awarded a doctorate in 1927 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen with a dissertation about Heinrich Schütz. In 1933, Spitta taught as a teacher at the Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin and was at the same time appointed to the cultural office of the Reichsjugendführer. He mainly composed choral works which were used in the celebrations of the Hitler Youth (e.g. ''Heilig Vaterland,'' 1934; ''Jahr überm Pflug,'' 1936). Due to this activity, he was partly included in the and Gottbegnadeten list during the war. From 1950 Spitta taught at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg ...
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