Christoph Ludwig Fehre (18 January 1718 – 28 October 1772) was a German

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and organist. He was the brother of David Augustin Fehre. Fehre was born in Zehren. As a child, he studied at the Lyceum in

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

and took his first music lessons from his uncle Johann Christian Gerstner (1675–1753). Then from 1727 till 1734, he attended the Anne School in

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. In 1742, he made an unsuccessful bid for the post of organist at the

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. On 26 February 1754, he became a trainee organist of

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, then organist from August 1757. On 20 July 1760, Anne's Church was destroyed, and for the next nine years Fehre was organist at interim services at St. Bartholomew's Church and in the electoral Malersaal on the Ostra-Allee. On 8 October 1769, he was the organist to celebrate the inauguration of the newly built Anne's Church. He died, aged 54, in Dresden.

Works

* Passion Oratorio 1748 * Cantata ''Der Schulmeister'' for bass and boys choir – July 1751 performance for the 50th anniversary of service for J. G. Gerstner * Kantate „Nur fort ins Feld ihr tapfern Brüder"Katalog und Einführung / Catalogue and Introduction: Volume 1, page 106, Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, 2007: "SA 1291 Fehre, Christoph Ludwig: Kantate „Nur fort ins Feld ihr tapfern Brüder" SA 1292"

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fehre, Christoph Ludwig German classical organists German Classical-period composers 1718 births 1772 deaths 18th-century German classical composers 18th-century German keyboardists German male classical composers 18th-century German male musicians German male classical organists