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Johann Christian Kittel
12+ albums
18th centurygermanclassical periodpipe organ
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Johann Christian Kittel (18 February 1732 – 17 April 1809) was a German organist, composer, and teacher. He was one of the last students of Johann Sebastian Bach. His students included Michael Gotthard Fischer, Karl Gottlieb Umbreit, Johann Wilhelm Hässler and Christian Heinrich Rinck. Kittel was born and died in Erfurt. He first studied with Jakob Adlung. He moved to Leipzig in 1748 and was a favourite - and last - pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach until his death two years later. He was appointed organist and teacher in Langensalza in 1751, following which he returned to Erfurt as organist of the Barfüßerkirche, in 1756, moving to the Predigerkirche in 1762. He refused many generous and more munificent offers, including one in 1790 from Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar to travel to Italy, remaining in Erfurt for the rest of his life. He played many evening recitals there and was famous as a virtuoso organist; Goethe, Herder, and Wieland all went to hear him play, and he made a concert tour to Hamburg in 1800, remaining there for a year while preparing a book of chorales for Schleswig-Holstein. He considered himself to be "grounded in the principles of Bach" and aimed "to awaken, maintain and heighten feelings of devotion in the hearts of his hearers by means of music". His teaching and composition fulfilled this aim by a restriction to simple forms which were best suited to liturgical use. He wrote some large-scale organ works such as double chorale variations based on B
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Prelude No. 1 in E Minor
442Fantasia con organo pleno
413Quedlinburg "Stars of the Morning, So Gloriously Bright"
9416 Grosse Präludien: V. In D Major
6516 Grosse Präludien: XII. In F Minor
66Praeludium in E-Flat Minor
57Fantasia und Fuga in F major
5816 Grosse Präludien: XV. In G Major
59Preludio pro organo pleno
410Praeludium No. 7 in E-Flat Major
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Prelude No. 1 in E Minor
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The Craighead-Saunders Organ
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Sons and pupils of Johann Sebastian Bach
German Organ Music Vol. 2
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German Organ Music, Vol. 2
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Onbekend album (7-4-2008 16:11:44)
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Organ Music - Mendelssohn, Felix / Kodaly, Z. / Whitlock, P. / Kort, A. / Bossi, M.E. / Karg-Elert, S. / Demessieux, J.
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Het Historische Orgel in Nederland - CD 7
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German Organ Music, Volume 2
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German Organ Music - Joseph Payne (Disc 2)
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Auferstehn, ja auferstehn
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Chorale prelude Ach Gott vom Himmel, sieh darein