Education
He studied with his father, Gottfried, as well as with Carl Friedrich Zelter and Ludwig Berger.
He studied with his father, Gottfried, as well as with Carl Friedrich Zelter and Ludwig Berger.
He is unrelated to the family of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1832, he succeeded Zelter as the director of the Royal Institute of Church Music in Berlin. He also taught at the Royal Academy of Arts.
His compositions largely consist of sacred works and works for keyboard.
He also wrote a pipe organ method and a hymnbook.