Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (18 September 1697 (bapt.) – 7 May 1775) was a German organist and composer. He was born in
Nuremberg
Nuremberg (, ; ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the Franconia#Towns and cities, largest city in Franconia, the List of cities in Bavaria by population, second-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Bav ...
, where he appears to have spent his whole life in various organists' posts, including:
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St. Egidien, Nuremberg 1719–1743
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St. Lorenz, Nuremberg 1743–1764
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St. Sebaldus Church, Nuremberg 1764–1775
He may have studied with
J.S. Bach in
Weimar (1716–1717), and his compositions reveal points of contact with Bach. They include a concerto for
harpsichord
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one ...
solo, perhaps modelled on the ''
Italian Concerto''. A variant of the slow movement of was once thought to be by Bach: it was published as a Prelude by Bach in the 19th-century
Bach-Gesellschaft edition, and listed in the first edition of the ''
Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis
The (, ; BWV) is a Catalogues of classical compositions, catalogue of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was first published in 1950, edited by Wolfgang Schmieder. The catalogue's second edition appeared in 1990 and the third edition in ...
'' (BWV) as the first movement of BWV 897 (BWV 897/1).
References
Sources
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* ''Oxford Composer Companions, J.S. Bach,'' 1999, p. 142
Further reading
* – reviews speculation that J.S. Bach did not compose the work.
External links
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German Baroque composers
Musicians from Nuremberg
1697 births
1775 deaths
18th-century German classical composers
German male classical composers
18th-century German male musicians