Johann Gottlieb Görner (16 April 1697 – 15 February 1778) was a German composer and organist.

Biography

Görner was born in

Penig Penig () is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Zwickauer Mulde, 19 km northwest of Chemnitz. The old and the new castle were owned by the House of Schönburg from 1378 ...

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

. His brother was the composer Johann Valentin Görner and his son the organist Karl Friedrich Görner. He was a student at the

Thomasschule zu Leipzig St. Thomas School, Leipzig (; ) is a co-educational and public boarding school in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It was founded by the Augustinians in 1212 and is one of the oldest schools in the world. St. Thomas is known for its art, language and m ...

and

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December 1409 by Frederick I, Electo ...

, then organist of the city's Paulinerkirche from 1716 (whose music director he became in 1723) then its

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from 1721. In 1723 he founded a Collegium Musicum, which competed with

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Help:IPA/Standard German, �joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety ...

's. He died in Leipzig.

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Renaissance-Musikverlag 1697 births 1778 deaths 18th-century German classical composers 18th-century German keyboardists 18th-century German male musicians German Baroque composers German Classical-period composers German classical organists German male classical composers German male classical organists {{Germany-composer-stub