Melchior Hoffmann

Melchior Hoffmann (zero regards to the composer and tale article writer E.T.A. Hoffmann of a hundred years afterwards) was a significant composer and music movie director in Prussia. Beginning being a choir youngster in the Dresden royal chapel, he was informed at the School of Leipzig. In 1704, Georg Philipp Telemann still left Leipzig for employment somewhere else and Hoffmann been successful him as movie director of music on the Neukirche, the opera, as well as the collegium musicum. He still acquired all three careers when he passed away a bit more than a decade later at age 30. He was appreciated for elevating the collegium musicum to a refined ensemble of 40 players as well as for keeping a superior quality on the opera. The operas he composed didn’t survive, but had been praised in such conditions as “satisfying and coming in contact with.” Four sacred choral functions of significant quality survive, furthermore to two additional works which were for two centuries thought to have been made up by Johann Sebastian Bach, the cantatas outlined as BWV 53 and 189, an inventory that alone demonstrates that Hoffmann was a gifted composer.