Johann Paul Kunzen
Johann Paul Kunzen
Genres: 18th century, german
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About Johann Paul Kunzen
Johann Paul Kunzen (also Kuntzen, born August 31, 1696 in Leisnig; died March 20, 1757 in Lübeck) was a German organist and composer. After schooling in Torgau and Freiberg , Kunzen studied at the University of Leipzig from 1716 and was a student of Johann Kuhnau , among others . Concert tours and positions in Zerbst and Wittenberg followed . His son Adolf Karl Kunzen was born here. In 1723 Johann Paul Kunzen was appointed to the Hamburg Opera , where he wrote several operas and began a friendship with Johann Mattheson . In 1728 he went on a concert tour to Holland and England with his son, who was considered a musical prodigy . They also met thereGeorg Friedrich Handel together. In September 1732 Kunzen sen. appointed to succeed Johann Christian Schieferdecker as organist and foreman at the Marienkirche in Lübeck . He took up this office at Easter 1733 and held it until the end of his life. In Lübeck Kunzen continued the evening music founded by Franz Tunder and Dietrich Buxtehude . He opened their main rehearsals, which took place not in the church but in the stock exchange , to paying listeners. He also introduced concerts on a subscription basis , which took place in the opera house from 1734. In 1747 Lorenz Christoph Mizler accepted him into the Corresponding Society of Musical Sciences . After his death, his son Adolf Karl Kunzen, who was in London at the time, became his successor. Kunzen left an eclectic oeuvre of opera, church music, and instrumental music, but very little survives. Like his predecessors, he composed a five-part cycle of cantatas based on biblical stories for the evening music . Of these, however, only the score for The Prodigal Son has survived (undated, new edition of the Lübeck City Library 2004) and the librettos for the years 1734–1756. The libretto for 1739 ( Belsazer ) was by Michael Christoph Brandenburg.
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