Georg Bronner

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Georg Bronner (Born: February 1667 (baptised: February 17, 1667) - Hamburg, Germany Died: March 1720 (buried: March 8, 1720) - Hamburg, Germany) was a German composer and organist. In 1688 and 1689 respectively he succeeded his father, Christoph Bronner, as sacristan and organist of the Heilig Geist hospital, Hamburg, and held these positions until 1719. Although his name was put forward for the post of organist of the cathedral and although he also acted as deputy at the Nikolaikirche between 1696 and 1701, he was never appointed to a more important position. This is the more noteworthy in that he was obviously not inferior to other musicians in Hamburg. He was also the only organist there to have connections with the Hamburg opera, of which he was co-director in 1699 and for which he composed a series of works (some in collaboration with Johann Mattheson and Schiefferdecker) between 1693 and 1702. These operas, which received J. Mattheson's critical approval, are lost, as are two oratorios by him that provoked a protest from the Hamburg city council. In Georg Bronner's book of chorales (1715) each melody is set in three different ways - with figured and unfigured basses and as vocal trios, which are notable for their effective part-writing and interesting harmonies. Of Bronner's other music, all of it sacred, the manuscript chorale cantatas show that the strict cantus firmus tradition was beginning to relax its grip: the outer movements, based on the chorale melody, employ