Johann Kuhnau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johann Kuhnau

German composer, organist and harpsichordist

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1660

Place of Birth: Geising, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 05-Jun-1722

Profession: writer, composer, conductor, mathematician, jurist, pianist, organist, choir director, musicologist, music theorist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Johann Kuhnau (German: ['ku?na?]; 6 April 1660 – 5 June 1722) was a German polymath: known primarily as composer today, he was also active as novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, being able late in life to combine these activities with the duties of his official post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, which he occupied for 21 years.
Much of his music, including operas, masses, and other large-scale vocal works, is lost.
His reputation today rests on a set of programmatic keyboard sonatas published in 1700, in which each sonata depicted in detail a particular story from the Bible.
After his death, Kuhnau was succeeded as Thomaskantor by Johann Sebastian Bach.