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Johann Georg Schübler
german18th century
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Johann Georg Schübler (c.1720–1755) was a German engraver and organist, who belonged to the Schübler family of artisians from Zella in the Turingian forest. He studied with Bach in Leipzig during the early 1740s but is now remembered less as a composer than as a figure in the eighteenth-century world of German organ culture and music printing. His name endures above all through the title-page imprint of J. S. Bach’s “Sechs Chorale …” for organ (BWV 645–650), later nicknamed the Schübler Chorales after their publisher. His fugue “Lass mich gehn, denn dort kommt meine Mutter her” has the same theme (and counter subject) as the fugue BWV 578 by Johann Sebastian Bach.. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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# Johann Georg Schübler Though Schübler's own compositional legacy remains modest, he occupies a fascinating position at the intersection of craft, commerce, and musical inheritance. As both engraver and organist, he embodied the dual technical and artistic knowledge required to shape how music circulated in mid-eighteenth-century Germany. His connection to Bach—studying under the master during Leipzig's most productive years—places him within an intimate musical lineage. More intriguingly, Schübler's significance lies partly in what we *don't* know: the precise nature of his contributions to the works published under his imprint, and his role in preserving and interpreting Bach's organ works for subsequent