Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (18 September 1697 (bapt.) – 7 May 1775) was a German organist and composer. He was born in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

, where he appears to have spent his whole life in various organists' posts, including: *

St. Egidien, Nuremberg St Egidien on Egidienplatz is the former Benedictine Abbey of Saint Giles (''Egidienskirche''), now a church in the former free imperial city of Nuremberg, southern Germany. It is considered a significant contribution to the baroque church archite ...

1719–1743 *

St. Lorenz, Nuremberg St. Lorenz (St. Lawrence) is a medieval church of the former free imperial city of Nuremberg in southern Germany. It is dedicated to Saint Lawrence. The church was badly damaged during the Second World War and later restored. It is one of the m ...

1743–1764 *

St. Sebaldus Church, Nuremberg St. Sebaldus Church (''St. Sebald'', ''Sebalduskirche'') is a Medieval era, medieval church (building), church in Nuremberg, Germany. Along with Frauenkirche, Nuremberg, Frauenkirche (Our Lady's Church) and St. Lorenz, Nuremberg, St. Lorenz, it i ...

1764–1775 He may have studied with

J.S. Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the ''Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suite ...

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

(1716–1717), and his compositions reveal points of contact with Bach. They include a concerto for

harpsichord A harpsichord ( it, clavicembalo; french: clavecin; german: Cembalo; es, clavecín; pt, cravo; nl, klavecimbel; pl, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. This activates a row of levers that turn a trigger mechanism ...

solo, perhaps modelled on the ''

Italian Concerto The ''Italian Concerto'', BWV 971, originally titled ''Concerto nach Italiænischen Gusto'' (''Concerto in the Italian taste''), is a three-movement concerto for two- manual harpsichord solo composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and published in 17 ...

''. A variant of the slow movement of was once thought to be by Bach: it was published as a Prelude by Bach in the 19th-century

Bach-Gesellschaft The German Bach-Gesellschaft (Bach Society) was a society formed in 1850 for the express purpose of publishing the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach without editorial additions. The collected works are known as the Bach-Gesellschaft-Ausga ...

edition, and listed in the first edition of the ''

Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis The (BWV; ; ) is a catalogue of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was first published in 1950, edited by Wolfgang Schmieder. The catalogue's second edition appeared in 1990. An abbreviated version of that second edition, known as BWV2a ...

'' (BWV) as the first movement of BWV 897 (BWV 897/1).

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* * ''Oxford Composer Companions, J.S. Bach,'' 1999, p. 142

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dretzel, Cornelius Heinrich German Baroque composers Musicians from Nuremberg 1697 births 1775 deaths 18th-century classical composers German classical composers German male classical composers 18th-century German composers 18th-century German male musicians

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