Johann Caspar Vogler
Johann Caspar Vogler (* May 23, 1696 in Hausen, † June 1, 1763 in Weimar ) was a German organist and composer and pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Biography
Vogler was born in Hausen bei Arnstadt in Thuringia. From 1706 he was a pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach, who was organist there. This was followed by further studies with Philipp Heinrich Erlebach and court organist Nicolaus Vetter in Rudolstadt. 1710 to 1715 he was again Bach's student in Weimar. During this time he copied the two livres d' orgue by Jacques Boyvin. In 1715 he became organist in Stadtilm and on May 19, 1721 Bach's second successor as court organist in Weimar. In 1729 he applied for the position of organist at the Nikolai Church in Leipzig, but was defeated by the Bach pupil Johann Schneider. The minutes from the December 24, 1729 it is said Vogler have made the church astray [ ... ] and gespielet to geschwinde. Another application as organist of St. Peter's Church in Görlitz failed. 1735 Vogler applied successfully as organist of the Market Church in Hanover. However, the Weimar Duke Ernst August Vogler denied the dismissal and appointed him deputy mayor, and two years later to the governing mayor of Weimar. In 1744, the geographer and polymath Johann Gottfried Gregorii counted the same as court organist Johann Sebastian Bach and more Bach pupil of the best German organists. Vogler had then until his death in Weimar.
Work
Vogler's Markus Passion is just as lost as his other detectable from catalogs of the 18th century pieces of polyphonic church music.
Get four chorale settings for organ:
- Jesus' suffering and death agony BWV Anh 57
- O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
- Deck thyself, O dear soul
- Do it with me, O God, according to thy goodness
The first two are in manuscript, the last two are reprinted in Mixed musicalische chorale = Gedancken (Weimar, 1737). In their expressiveness and their improvised interludes they resemble Bach's early style and demonstrate Gerber Vogler as the greatest master of the organ, he has formed [ Bach ] made .
Vogler was a copyist of some of Bach's works and was first performed in Bach scholarship as scribe Anonymous 18. Of particular value for the performance practice are contained in the transcripts complete fingerings, so from Prelude and Fughetta in C major BWV 870a.