Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750-1813) - Sonata (G-Dur) aus Sechs Klaviersonaten, größtentheils für Kenner (1789)
Performers: Tobias Kοch (pianoforte, 1790)
Further info: Daniel Gottlob Turk (1750-1813) - Keyboard Sonatas
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German theorist and composer. Son of Daniel Türcke, instrumentalist in
the service of Count Schönburg, he was trained at an early age for the
hosiery firm, received his first music lessons from his father and
learnt several wind instruments with his father’s colleagues. At the
Dresden Kreuzschule he received thorough musical education under the
Kantor Gottfried August Homilius, a former pupil of Johann Sebastian
Bach. In 1772 he enrolled in law at the University of Leipzig while
continuing to study under Johann Adam Hiller. In 1774 he was appointed
as Kantor at the Ulrichskirche in Halle, and five years later he was
awarded a doctorate at the University of Halle, where he taught seminars
in music. In 1787 he became Kapellmeister at the Marienkirche in the
city, and in the early part of the 19th century he was a leading figure
in the Halle revival of George Frederick Handel. Daniel Gottlob Türk was
best known as a music theorist, whose seven treatises include the
seminal Clavierschule of 1789 and the Anweisung zum Generalbass-Schule
of 1791 than a composer. Nevertheless, his music, written in the North
German style, includes 20 cantatas, 21 Lieder, an opera, 46 chorales, a
Choralbuch, 38 keyboard sonatas, and 164 smaller works for keyboard.
