Johann Gottfried Donati
Johann Gottfried Donati (Leipzig, 1706 – Greiz, 1782) was a German Baroque composer. Donati's father and grandfather were organ-builders in Saxony. He was organist in Greiz for 50 years and a friend of organ-builder Gottfried Silbermann.[1]
Works, editions and recordings[]
Partial cantata cycles for 1737, 1742, and 1745 - mainly lost in the Greiz town fire in 1802, but a few copies survive in Mügeln and Bösenrode parish churches. His passions and chamber works are not preserved.
- Cantata Mein Hertzens-Haus bereite dich Klaus Mertens, Accademia Daniel, dir Shalev Ad-El, 2007.
References[]
- ^ Uta Wald, essay in booklet to CD Baroque Bass Cantatas from Central Germany cpo 2007
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- 1706 births
- 1782 deaths
- German organists
- German male organists
- German Baroque composers
- 18th-century classical composers
- 18th-century keyboardists
- German classical composers
- German male classical composers
- 18th-century German composers
- 18th-century male musicians
- German composer stubs