Jacob Wilhelm Lustig

Students of Mattheson, Telemann and Kuntzen, Lustig became the chapel organist at both Michaelis in Hamburg. He could hear several prominent organists including J.S. Bach and Lustig was also a pal of Arp Schnitger the body organ contractor. In 1728 he acceded towards the organist placement of St Martin’s in Groningen and taken care of this placement until he passed away in 1796 at age 89. He was quite content material in his placement. The few compositions by Lustig that are extant show small originality or transfer. Uncommon harmonic progressions, if they did come in his music, had been pressured and clumsy and Lustig’s music also illustrates a definitive Italian and German impact however you like. Though his compositions had been vulnerable his teaching and body organ playing had been highly regarded. The main contribution Lustig designed to music, historically, had been his writings including translations, of several modern writings, into Dutch. Although his very own conceit and jealousies slant his writings, Lustig supplied significant amounts of information about his contemporaries.