About Johann Friedrich Doles
Lived 1715 – 1797 (aged 81). Johann Friedrich Doles was a German composer, choir director, conductor and organist.
Johann Friedrich Doles (23 April 1715 – 8 February 1797) was a German composer and pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Doles was born in Steinbach-Hallenberg in Thuringia. In 1739 he moved to Leipzig to study theology at the University of Leipzig. He also took lessons from Bach. After working in Freiberg, he returned to Leipzig as Kantor at the Thomasschule in 1756.
Doles and the tradition of Bach performance Doles wrote a manuscript treatise on singing which may preserve some elements of Bach's own methods. In 1789, the last year he conducted the Thomanerchor, he directed the performance of Bach's motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied that reportedly made a deep impression on Mozart.
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German composer
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Johann Friedrich Doles was born on 23 April 1715 in Steinbach-Hallenberg.
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Johann Friedrich Doles died on 8 February 1797 in Leipzig.
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Johann Friedrich Doles was a composer, choir director, conductor and organist.
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Johann Friedrich Doles was German.
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