Gottlob Heinrich Neicke (Kantor, Bach's Pupil)

Born: November 11, 1709² or May 23, 1709³ - Grimma, Saxony, Germany
Died: 1764?

Gottlob Heinrich Neicke [Neucke] was born to Gottfried Neicke (cooper in Grimma). He enrolled at the Thomasschule in Leipzig on June 5, 1724; studied there from from 1724 to 1733, and Universität Leipzig from 1729. J.S. Bach wrote in a report from August 23, 1730: "not yet ready to be used in the 1^st choir (figural music)”. In 1741 he was appointed Kantor in Borna

Sources:
1. fine-print footnotes in the Bach-Dokumente
2. 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 (March 2020)
3. Bach Digital Website (June 28, 2019)
Contributed by Thomas Braatz (January 2011), Aryeh Oron (March 2020)

Links to other Sites

Neicke, Gottlob Heinrich (Bach-Digital)

Bibliography

Sources: StaatsA Leipzig, Konsistorium Leipzig, Nr. 145 (Subscriptio derer Visitations-Articul), 1741
Literature: Richter 1907, Nr. 73; Dok I, Nr. 22 (S. 64 und 66); Vollhardt 1978, S. 28; Koska 2015

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