Johann Christoph Pez

Johann Christoph Pez (also: Petz, Betz, Beez, born September 9, 1664 in Munich, † September 25, 1716 in Stuttgart ) was a German composer and conductor.

Life

The son of a watchman Pez attended the Jesuit gymnasium in Munich (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich) and graduated in 1681 from.

In 1687, he was choirmaster at St. Peter's Church in Munich, in 1688 a court musician at the Elector Max Emanuel. This enabled him to study in Rome. 1694 Pez moved into the service of the Elector of Cologne, Joseph Clemens of Bavaria to Bonn, with a mandate to reform the electoral chapel. 1695 awarded him the Elector the Kapellmeister and the title of the Electoral Council. In 1701 he returned to Munich and was employed there until 1706 as a musician at the court chapel. 1706 he joined Stuttgart take the place of an upper Kapellmeister to the Duke Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg, which he held until his death.

Work

Like many of his contemporaries used Pez in his compositions, the so-called French style: one expects him to Lullysten, ie the imitators of the great French composer Jean -Baptiste Lully to.

In 1730 published poem over several Teutsche composer Georg Philipp Telemann Pez counted together with well-known names such as Handel to the great composers and particularly praised his sonatas.