Birth Anniversary: Johann Christoph Graupner — January 13, 1683
Born in Kirchberg, Saxony, on 13 January 1683. He studied counterpoint under Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau at the Thomasschule in Leipzig and worked as opera cembalist in Hamburg alongside Reinhard Keiser before accepting an appointment as vice-Kapellmeister at the court of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1709.
Dates verified on Friedrich Noack, Christoph Graupner als Kirchenkomponist, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1926, pp. 12-30; Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, Graupner Digital Archive (https://www.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/die_bibliothek/historische_sammlungen/musikabteilung/graupner_digital/).
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