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Johann Balthasar König

Johann Balthasar König (baptised 28 January 1691 – buried 2 April 1758) was a German Baroque composer, especially of hymn melodies, having published a hymnal with 1,913 melodies. He was the church

Johann Balthasar König (baptised 28 January 1691 – buried 2 April 1758) was a German Baroque composer, especially of hymn melodies, having published a hymnal with 1,913 melodies. He was the church musician at Frankfurt’s main Protestant church, the Katharinenkirche, and the town’s Kapellmeister. He was also closely associated with Georg Philipp Telemann. Early life and career Born in Waltershausen, König was a son of Johann Jakob König. He was in Frankfurt a chorister of the municipal gymnasium. Sources * * Further reading * Peter Cahn: Kirchenmusik an St. Katharinen. In: Joachim Proescholdt (ed.): St. Katharinen zu Frankfurt am Main. Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, 1981. External links * * “Johann Balthasar König (Composer)”, Bach Cantatas website 2006 * Johann “Balthasar König”, hymnary.org * “Harmonischer Lieder-Schatz”, reader.digitale-sammlungen.de * “Johann Balthasar König / Komponist, Musikdirektor”, Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek *

Era
Baroque
Lived
1691–1758
From
Germany
Born in
Waltershausen · died Frankfurt
Known as
composer

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.