Johann Christoph Pezel
Johann Christoph Pezel (also Petzold; his name is sometimes given in the Latinized form Pecelius) (1639 – 13 October 1694) 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 (as at Leipzig) he was in municipal employment as Stadtpfeifer and Stadtmusicus. He died in Bautzen, aged 55.
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 (1669), Musicalische Seelenerquickungen (1675), Deliciae musicales, oder Lustmusik (1678), Musica curiosa lipsiaca (1686), etc.; also some sacred vocal music and theoretical works. He was influential in the evolution of instrumental forms and the style of orchestral writing.
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- Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol. VI (1954)
External links
- Free scores by Johann Christoph Pezel at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Free scores by Johann Christoph Pezel in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Pages with script errors
- Composers with IMSLP links
- Articles with International Music Score Library Project links
- 1639 births
- 1694 deaths
- 17th-century violinists from the Holy Roman Empire
- People from Kłodzko
- German Baroque composers
- 17th-century German classical composers
- German male classical composers
- 17th-century German male musicians
- People from the Habsburg monarchy