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 u ...

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

. His brother was the composer

Johann Valentin Görner Johann Valentin Görner (27 February 170230 July 1762) was a German composer. He was born in Penig, the brother of organist Johann Gottlieb Görner. He died, aged 60, in Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone ...

and his son the organist Karl Friedrich Görner. He was a student at the

Thomasschule zu Leipzig St. Thomas School, Leipzig (german: Thomasschule zu Leipzig; la, Schola Thomana Lipsiensis) 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 i ...

and

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), 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 Decemb ...

, then organist of the city's Paulinerkirche from 1716 (whose music director he became in 1723) then its Nikolaikirche from 1721. In 1723 he founded a Collegium Musicum, which competed with

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

's. He died in Leipzig.

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