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(1683 - 1760)

German composer. His first teachers were Mylius and the organist Küster, whom Graupner followed to Reichenbach in 1694. He entered the Leipzig Thomasschule in 1696, where Heinichen was a fellow student; he studied under Schelle and Kuhnau and befriended Telemann and his future colleague Gottfried Grünewald during his nine years in the city. Leaving Leipzig in 1706, he went to Hamburg, replacing Schieferdecker at the harpsichord of the Oper am Gänsemarkt in June 1707; he composed his first five operas there, perhaps also collaborating with Keiser on three others. In 1709 he became Vice-Kapellmeister at the court of Ernst Ludwig, Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt, succeeding Briegel as Kapellmeister in 1712; Grünewald replaced him as Vice-Kapellmeister, and J. F. Fasch came to study with him in the same year. He wrote many operas up to 1719, when he turned to sacred and instrumental composition. In 1722/23 he was chosen t

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Though not born to a musical family, he was fortunate to receive instruction from the local cantor Mylius and organist Nikolaus Küster.

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Graupner, (Johann) Christoph, German composer; b.

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Christoph Graupner was one of the principal German composers of the period of Bach and Telemann.

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Graupner, Christoph

Christoph Graupner was one of the principal German composers of the period of J.S. Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann.

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Christoph Graupner was also one of the German composers, such as J.D. Heinichen, Johann Georg Pisendel, Fasch, Hurlebusch and Telemann, who imitated the works of A. Vivaldi, through which the Italian concerto, especially the solo concerto, became known in Germany.

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Christoph Graupner was one of the principal German composers of the period of J.S. Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann.