Johann Gottlieb Preller

Who was Johann Gottlieb Preller?

Johann Gottlieb Preller, or Breller, was a German cantor, composer, and land surveyor.

He was born in Oberroßla,. Nothing is known of his musical training. He may have been a pupil of Johann Nicolaus Mempel in Apolda, which is inferred from the common authorship of the Mempell-Preller-Handschrift, a manuscript collection of organ and keyboard works by Johann Sebastian Bach. He studied from 1750 at the University of Jena and in 1753 or 1754 was appointed cantor in Dortmund, where he founded a collegium musicum. He remained there for the rest of his life. His only known composition is a Laudate Dominum.