Short Name: | C. H. Dretzel |
Full Name: | Dretzel, Cornelius Heinrich, 1697-1775 |
Birth Year: | 1697 |
Death Year: | 1775 |
Born: (baptised).September 18, 1697 - Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Died: May 7, 1755 - Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
The German composer, organist and musicographer, Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel, was a grandson of Georg Dretzel (c1610-after 1676; organist of St Michael, Schwäbisch Hall) and nephew of Valentin, the most important member of the family. A possible student of Johann Pachelbel's eldest son, C.H. Dretzel also studied with J.S. Bach in Weimar in 1716-1717. He appears to have spent his whole life in Nuremberg, his hometown, in various organists' posts: Frauenkirche, St Lorenz (from 1743) and St Sebald.
Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel's keyboard counterpoints and fugues were his forte having thoroughly emersed himself in the works of J. S. Bach. His reputation as a virtuoso player and contrapuntist is supported by his solo harpsichord concerto, Harmonische Ergötzung, influenced by J.S. Bach's Italian Concerto (BWV 971). Indeed Harmonische Ergötzung was long thought to be composed by J.S. Bach. An early version of the slow movement was entered into Schmeider as BWV 897:1. C.H. Dretzel's own "divertimenti" were thought to be lost until they were found in a collection that had belonged to Haydn. Of hymnological importance is his collection and commentary Des evangelishen Zions musicalische Harmonie (1731), which contains over 900 melodies, suspended over a continuous bass, most appealing in print for the first time in their local versions; the preface discusses the origin and development of the chorale.
--www.bach-cantatas.com/L
Tunes by C. H. Dretzel (12)![]() | As | Instances | Incipit |
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CULBACH | C. H. Dretzel (Composer) | 1 | 13554 53117 7665 |
DRETZEL | C. H. Dretzel (Composer) | 6 | 15543 21176 7665 |
KOMM, O KOMM, DU GEIST DES LEBENS (Bach) | Dretzel (Composer) | 1 | 31251 27567 11223 |
KOMM, O KOMM, DU GEIST DES LEBENS (Dretzel) | Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (Composer) | 1 | 13556 71561 53421 |
O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HÄTTE (Dretzel) | K. H. Dretzel, 1697-1775 (Composer) | 26 | 13125 43212 22355 |
SCHAFFE IN MIR, GOTT (Winer) | Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (Adapter) | 1 | 31234 32122 23217 |
SO GEHST DU NUN | Kornelius Heinrich Dretzel (Composer) | 1 | 35544 33223 45653 |
ST. SEBALD | C. H. Dretzel (Composer) | 2 | 12315 64323 12345 |
STUTTGART | Conrad Heinrich Dretzell (Composer (Ascribed to)) | 1 | 55112 23155 64253 |
UNSER JESUS IN DER NACHT | Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (Composer) | 1 | 12354 32576 54323 |
WEIMAR (Dretzel) | Dretzel (Composer) | 2 | 11235 43225 76543 |
WIR GLAUBEN ALL AN EINEN GOTT (33543) | Cornelius H. Dretzel, 1697-1775 (Adapter) | 1 | 33543 22323 43221 |