The Organs of J.S. Bach: A Handbook by Christoph Wolff & Markus Zepf

Author:Christoph Wolff & Markus Zepf [Wolff, Christoph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780252093913
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011-04-30T03:00:00+00:00

Erfurt

Along with Arnstadt, Erfurt was the most important city for the musical Bach family during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Johann Bach worked as organist from 1636 to 1673 at the Prediger Church, church of the town council and musical center for the Lutheran citizens of Erfurt, a biconfessional city that at the time was part of the electoral archbishopric of Mainz. His successor was Johann Effler, who previously had been organist in Gehren (where he was succeeded by Johann Michael Bach, later Johann Sebastian’s father-in-law). In 1678, Effler became city and court organist in Weimar, where he was succeeded by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1708. Effler’s successor in Erfurt was Johann Pachelbel, who held the organist post until 1690 and who taught Johann Christoph Bach of Ohrdruf. Pachelbel’s successors as town organist were Nicolaus Vetter, 1690–91; Johann Heinrich Buttstedt, 1691–1727; Jacob Adlung (Johann Nicolaus Bach’s student), 1728–62; and Johann Christian Kittel (one of the last students of Johann Sebastian Bach), 1762–1809.

Johann Sebastian Bach often visited Erfurt, the birthplace of his parents, and in 1716 examined and evaluated the organ in St. Augustine’s Church.

Prediger Church/Predigerkirche

Three-aisled Gothic Dominican basilica from the thirteenth–fourteenth centuries; with its considerable dimensions, it counts as one of the most important architectural creations of the mendicant order in Germany. After the Reformation, it was Erfurt’s principal city church.

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