Melchior Hoffmann

1679 (age 36)

Altenberg, Municipal association Altenberg, Germany

His compositions have been mistaken for those of Johann Sebastian His first musical service was as a choirboy in Dresden, under the tutelage of Johann Christoph Schmidt. In 1702 he moved to Leipzig to study law. Simultaneously he joined Georg Philipp Telemann at the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig and acted as the organization"s copyist. Hoffmann succeeded Telemann as director of the Collegium Musicum in 1705, a position that did not end until Hoffman"s death ten years later. In this position he became an educator, and his students included Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. He was noted for expanding the orchestra at the Collegium to more than 40 musicians. Other responsibilities included being the organist at the Neukirche, and director of the Leipzig civic opera, for which he composed several works. He is known to have journeyed to England sometime around the years 1709-1710. In 1713 he began to suffer from the malady which would eventually prove fatal. He accepted a position as the organist at the Liebfrauenkirche at Halle in the spring of 1714, but resigned July 12 of that year having never served in that capacity. He succumbed to illness, in otherwise prosperous circumstances, on 6 October 1715.

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Hoffman was born sometime around 1679 (or 1685 according to some sources) in Bärenstein, Saxony, Germany.

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His compositions have been mistaken for those of Johann Sebastian His first musical service was as a choirboy in Dresden, under the tutelage of Johann Christoph Schmidt. In 1702 he moved to Leipzig to study law. Simultaneously he joined Georg Philipp Telemann at the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig and acted as the organization"s copyist.

Hoffmann succeeded Telemann as director of the Collegium Musicum in 1705, a position that did not end until Hoffman"s death ten years later.

In this position he became an educator, and his students included Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. He was noted for expanding the orchestra at the Collegium to more than 40 musicians.

Other responsibilities included being the organist at the Neukirche, and director of the Leipzig civic opera, for which he composed several works. He is known to have journeyed to England sometime around the years 1709-1710.

In 1713 he began to suffer from the malady which would eventually prove fatal.

He accepted a position as the organist at the Liebfrauenkirche at Halle in the spring of 1714, but resigned July 12 of that year having never served in that capacity. He succumbed to illness, in otherwise prosperous circumstances, on 6 October 1715.

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