Johann Klemm

Johann Klemm ( also terminal, Klemmius; * 1595 in Oederan; † about 1659 probably in Dresden ) was a German composer, organist and music publishers.

Life and work

Johann clamp came in 1605 as a choir boy to the Dresden court orchestra and in 1612 hired as an instrumentalist. In 1613 he was sent to study half to Augsburg to the well-known organist Christian Erbach, where Elector Johann Georg I took over the costs. 1616 or 1617 terminal returned back to Dresden and continued his musical studies with Heinrich Schütz continued. In 1625 he was appointed court organist. He was responsible for the musical education there, the choir boys, including Matthias Weckmann was his organ students.

Good relationships between contactor and terminal show not only received letters, but also the fact that the terminal became the owner of important works by Schütz (whose Symphoniae Sacrae II, 1647 Sacred choral music, 1648). His publishing activity he pursued first together with the Leipzig organist Daniel Weixer, later in Bautzen with Alexander Herring. Terminal is still in 1657 as a participating musician came in first funeral for Johann Georg I, probably he died in 1659 in Dresden.

To Klemm few surviving compositions include 12 each after church tones ordered 2 -, 3 - and 4 - part fugues in partitura seu Tabulatura Italica for organ or other instruments (Dresden, 1631). In these the replacement of the then customary in Germany letter tablature is propagated through the Italian form of notation as a score.