Kropfgans, Johann

Period: Baroque

Born: Sunday, October 14, 1708 in Breslau (now Wroclaw), Poland

Died: c. 1771 in Leipzig, Germany (most likely)

Nation of Origin: Poland/Germany

Major Works:
Many works for solo lute including:
6 menuets
menuet La jardiniaire
menuet and double
menuet a bonne nuit
Pastorella
Le postillon
3 partitas

Works for Ensemble include:
2 concertos
Sonata a 3
2 divertimentos

Other Information:
Quick Facts:

• Prolific German lutenist and composer.
• His father, younger brother, and younger sister were also lutenists.
• Studied with Silvius Leopold Weiss.
• After 1735 he is known to have been at the Kapelle of Count Heinrich von Brül.
• Visited Berlin in 1737
• Visited J. S. Bach in Leipzig in summer of 1739 in the company of Silvius Weiss and W. F. Bach.
• Moved to Leipzig in 1763 and performed until 1769.
• He was in demand for his skill in accompanying recitative on the theorbo.
• He wrote a great deal of music but little survived.

General Bibliography:
Bukofzer, Manfred F., Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach, W.W. Norton & Company, November 1947, ISBN: 0393097455

Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN: 0198691629

Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music, Prentice Hall, December 1990, ISBN: 0130584967

Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390

Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257

Links to essays at other sites:

Baroque Music by Claude V. Palisca

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