Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770-1846)
- Cantate 'Gott sorgt für uns o singt ihm Dank' für das Erntefest
für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass. nebst obligater Orgelbegleitung, Op.98
(c.1830)
Performers: Petеr Scholl (organ); Collegium Vocale Siеgen; Ulrich
Stotzеl (conductor)
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German organist and composer. He studied first with local masters and
later he received his most important musical training in Erfurt from
Johann Christian Kittel, a former pupil of Bach, from 1786 to 1789. In
1790 he became town organist at Giessen, in a post he held until 1805,
before settling in Darmstadt. There he remained the rest of his life as
organist and teacher at the music school (from 1805); then became court
organist in 1813, and finally chamber musician in 1817. He was praised
as a teacher throughout Germany and Darmstadt became a centre for
aspiring organists. Among his pupils were Charles Hallé, Friedrich
Kühmstedt, Joseph Mainzer and the brothers Wilhelm and Carl Amand
Mangold. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Giessen in 1840. As a
composer, he mainly wrote organ works, among them, many collections of
chorale preludes. He also wrote instructional works, waltzes and
variations for the piano, two masses, motets, cantatas, and much
unpublished instrumental music. He published his own autobiography
(Breslau, 1833).
