Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712) - Das ist das ewige Leben
Performers: Veronika Wintеr (soprano); Franz Vіtzthum (alto); Immo Schrödеr (tenor); Markus Flаіg (bass);
Rheinische Kаntorеi; Das Klеinе Konzert; Hermann Mаx (conductor)
Further info: Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712) - Cantatas
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German composer and organist. His maternal grandfather and father were
Stadtpfeifer, and he received training in organ and as a Stadtpfeifer.
In 1676 he went with his family to Eilenburg, where he most likely
studied with Johann Hildebrand. From 1684 until his death he was
organist at the Marienkirche in Halle, where he also led the noted
musical performances every third Sunday. Zachow was one of the leading
composers of church cantatas and keyboard works of his day. He is
remembered chiefly as Handel's teacher but is important in his own right
as a composer of church cantatas and keyboard music. Zachow became an
eminent teacher and besides Handel his pupils included Gottfried
Kirchhoff, J.G. Krieger and J.G. Ziegler. Surviving from an apparently
large output, are about 30 cantatas in various forms from sacred
concerto to operatic, a chorale mass, 3 Latin motets, about 50 keyboard
chorales, and about 20 assorted keyboard works.
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