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Johann Georg Schürer
1+ albums
bohemian18th century
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Johann Georg (Adam) Schürer (c.1720–1786) was a Bohemian-born composer who spent his working life in Dresden, moving from early training at the Saxon court into a long career shaping Catholic sacred music there. After his operas were staged in Dresden in the late 1740s, he was appointed Kirchencompositeur to the court in 1748, becoming responsible for directing and supplying music for the Catholic worship of a famously musical capital. Although much of his output survives only in part, catalogues such as RISM preserve a continuing footprint of his masses, vespers and other sacred works in manuscript transmission, and occasional modern revivals have begun to bring his Dresden church music back to life. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.