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Autor: Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780)
Obra: Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn Magnificat
Intèrprets: Ex Tempore; Florian Heyerick (conductor)

Pintura: Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556) - Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine and Thomas

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Johann Ludwig Krebs
(Buttelstedt, Weimar, bap. 12 October 1713 - Altenburg, 1 January 1780)

German composer and organist, eldest of the three sons of Johann Tobias Krebs (1690-1762). He received his first musical instruction from his father, including organ lessons as early as his 12th year. He later studied with Johann Sebastian Bach on the organ. Bach (who had also instructed Krebs's father) held Krebs in high standing. From a technical standpoint, Krebs was unrivaled next to Bach in his organ proficiency. However, he found it difficult to obtain a patron or a cathedral post. His Baroque style was being supplanted by the newer galant music style and the classical music era. Krebs took a small post in Zwickau, and in 1755 (five years after the death of Bach, which is normally referred to as the end of the Baroque period) he was appointed court organist of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg under Prince Friedrich. Krebs had seven children and struggled to feed his family. Despite never holding a court composer post, and never being commissioned for a work, Krebs was able to compose a significant collection of works, though few were published until the 1900s. Krebs’s three surviving sons were all musicians: Johann Gottfried Krebs (1741-1814) was the Stadtkantor in Altenburg; Carl Heinrich Gottlieb Krebs (1747-1793) was court organist in Eisenberg from 1774 but no compositions by him survive; Ehrenfried Christian Traugott Krebs (1753-1804) succeeded his father as court organist at Altenburg from 1780 and published a collection of six organ chorale preludes (Leipzig, 1787); he also wrote a jubilee cantata (music lost) to a text published in Altenburg in 1793. His son, Ferdinand Traugott Krebs, was awarded the post of ‘Mittelorganist’ at Altenburg in 1808 but nothing further is known of him.

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