Johann Christoph Pezel
Composer
1639 – 1694
Who was Johann Christoph Pezel?
Johann Christoph Pezel was a German violinist, trumpeter, and composer. He lived at Leipzig from 1661 to 1681, with an interruption in 1672, when he entered an Augustinian monastery in Prague, which however he left soon after to become a Protestant. His later years were spent at Bautzen, where he was in municipal employment as Stadtpfeifer and Stadtmusicus. He was renowned as a violinist and clarino trumpet player and published between 1669 and 1686 a considerable number of collections, chiefly of instrumental music, such as Musica vespertina lipsica, Musicalische Seelenerquickungen, Deliciae musicales, oder Lustmusik, Musica curiosa lipsiaca, etc.; also some sacred vocal music and theoretical works. He was influential in the evolution of instrumental forms and the style of orchestral writing. Pezel died in Bautzen, aged 55.
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- Born
- Dec 5, 1639
Silesia - Also known as
- Pezel, Johann Christoph
- Nationality
- Germany
- Died
- Oct 13, 1694
Bautzen
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on July 23, 2013
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