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Composer information for ‘Janitsch, Johann Gottlieb’
- Name
- Janitsch
- First name
- Johann Gottlieb
- Dates
- (1708 - 1762)
- Misc. info
- Gambist and lawyer, contrabassist in Friedrich II's orch. and organizer of the famous 'Friday Academies' in his house in Berlin. J's quartets, which J.W.Hertel called '...still today[1784] the best models of this form [noch zur Zeit die besten Muster dieser Art]', represent an estimable and beautiful part of the Ob repertoire. They survive in numerous versions, sometimes in different instrumentations and keys; all have been compared here.J. worked with the oboists Johann Christian Jacobi (b.1719) and possibly Peter Glösch (...1706-by1754).
- Oboist
- No