Johann Christoph Schultze

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Johann Christoph Schultze , also rarely Schultz (born 1733 in Berlin; died August 22, 1813 in Berlin) was a German conductor and composer. Johann Christoph Schultze was baptized on October 11, 1733 in the Evangelical St. Mary's Church in Berlin . His parents were Ephraim Schultz(e) (* around 1710; † around 1784) and Anna Christina Stärcken (daughter of Martin Stärcken). They married on September 27, 1731 in St. Mary's Church. Ephraim worked as a shoemaker and was "print master at the Dutch Sprueter at the Pommeranzenbrücke" in Berlin. Married on February 11, 1785 Johann Christoph with Sophie Henriette Edler (* around 1763; † 1839), daughter of Friedrich Edler, in the church of Dorotheenstadt in Berlin. A daughter, Maria Carolina, was born on August 2, 1785 (no other children are known). Johann Christoph died in Berlin on August 22, 1813. Schultze came from a family of German musicians and composers who were musically active from the second half of the 18th century to the 19th century. Although the composer is largely forgotten today, his works are occasionally performed. He must have been one of the last composers to write for the flûte à bec (recorder), which was already out of fashion at the time. Schultze was from 1768 Kapellmeister ( " music director and lead violinist" ) at the Döbbelinsches Theatre, later at the Royal National Theatre in Berlin. He was also the violin teacher of the later composer Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758-1832). Although he set Goethe's poem Der

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