Christoph Bernhard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German composer
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Place of Birth: Kołobrzeg, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
About Christoph Bernhard
- Christoph Bernhard (1 January 1628 – 14 November 1692) was born in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died in Dresden.
- He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig (now Gdansk) and in Warsaw.
- By the age of 20 he was singing at the electoral court in Dresden under Heinrich Schütz and composed some of the music for the Master's funeral.
- He then spent a year in Copenhagen to study singing with Agostino Fontana. After his appointment as assistant kapellmeister in Dresden in 1655, Bernhard made two sojourns to Italy to further his musical education.
- When he was 35, he moved to Hamburg to work as the director of music for the Johanneum and for civic musical events.
- The next ten years were a golden age in the musical tradition of Hamburg: Bernhard and his good friend Matthias Weckmann performed together and directed the latest compositions from Italy and Vienna, as well as composing an important collection of music in finely-wrought counterpoint. The Elector of Saxony recalled Bernhard to Dresden in 1674, where he returned as assistant kapellmeister.
- Six years later, the large - and primarily Italian - musical establishment in the city was greatly reduced, until Bernhard remained the only kapellmeister at court.
- He continued composing, directing and caring for the music library in Dresden until his death in 1692, at the age of 64.
- Bernhard left behind many sacred vocal works, a few secular compositions, and three important treatises on music, the most famous of which is the Tractatus compositionis augmentatus (ca.
- 1657), which was the source of the term passus duriusculus.
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