[Mit Ernst, ihr Menschenkinder] (Bachofen)

Composer: Johann Caspar Bachofen

Johann Caspar Bachofen, born in Zürich in 1692, died there in 1755. Singing-master in the Latin school and cantor of one of the Zürich churches in 1718; director of te Chorherrn-gesellschaft as successor to Albertin; author of an instruction book on music and singing, the "Music Notenbüchlein." Compositions: Musicalisches Halleluja, containing 600 melodies for two and three voices with organ and figured bass (8 eds. down to 1767); Vermehrte Zustaz von Morgen, Abend...Gesängen (1738; Sacred airs ain concert-style for two and three voices given in monthly number (4th ed. 1755); Brocke's Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott, set to music (1,000 pages, 1740); Musicalische Ergetzungen (1755); Psalmen dAvids (8vo, 2d ed., 1759); Für der Sünden der… Go to person page >