Johann Christian Hauptmann (Kantor, Organ, Bach's Pupil)

Born: c1711 - Weltewitz, Saxony, Germany
Died: July 13, 1758 - Mutzschen, , Saxony, Germany

Johann Christian Hauptmann was born to Johann Christoph Hauptmann (schoolmaster in Weltewitz). He enrolled at the Thomasschule in Leipzig on December 11, 1727; studied there from 1727 to 1733, and at Universität Leipzig from 1733. Although he attended the Thomasschule during J.S. Bach's tenure, it is not known if he actually studied with him. J.S. Bach wrote in a report from August 23, 1730: “not yet ready to be used in the 1^st choir (figural music)”. After his studies, he became Kantor and organist in Brena (1737); and later Kantor in Mutzschen (1755).

Source: fine-print footnotes in the Bach-Dokumente; Bernd Koska: Dissertation "Bachs Thomaner als Kantoren in Mitteldeutschland" (Beeskow 2018), Anhang VII.1 Die Alumnen der Thomasschule 1710-1760, English translation by Aryeh Oron (April 2020)
Contributed by Thomas Braatz (January 2011), Aryeh Oron (April 2020)

Links to other Sites

Hauptmann, Johann Christian (Bach Digital)

Bibliography

Literature: Dok I, Nr. 22 (S. 64 und 66); Vollhardt 1978, S. 228; Koska 2015; Ka pitel III dieser Arbeit

Bach's Pupils: List of Bach's Pupils | Actual and Potential Non-Thomaner Singers and Players who participated in Bach’s Figural Music in Leipzig | Alumni of the Thomasschule in Leipzig during Bach's Tenure | List of Bach's Private Pupils | List of Bach's Copyists
Thomanerchor Leipzig: Short History | Members: 1729 | 1730 | 1731 | 1740-1741 | 1744-1745 | Modern Times
Bach’s Pupils Discussions: Part 1 | Part 2
Articles: Organizional Structure of the Thomasschule in Leipzig | The Rules Established for the Thomasschule by a Noble and Very Wise Leipzig City Council - Printed by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf Leipzig, 1733 | Homage Works for Thomas School Rectors