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Johann Martin Schubart (Chamber Musician, Organ, Copyist, Bach's Pupil) |
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Born: March 8, 1690 - Careberg, near Ilmenau, Thuringia, Germany
Died: April 2, 1721 - Weimar, Thuringia, Germany |
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Johann Martin Schubart was a German organist. He was born the son of Otto Schubart (miller in Careberg). He studied with J.S. Bach in Mühlhausen (1707-1708), and followed him to Weimar, living there as a member of his household until 1717. When J.S. Bach left Weimar for Köthen (Anhalt) in that year, Schubart was appointed Kammermusicus (chamber musician) and court organist in his place, at a much lower salary, but he died only four years later at the age of 31.
Johann Martin Schubart's lessons in "playing the piano" with J.S. Bach is evidenced by the statement by Johann Gottfried Walther from 1732. Because of Schubart's origins it would be conceivable that a first meeting with J.S. Bach had already taken place in Arnstadt, but Peter Wollny (2015) assumed that Schubart was initially a student of J.G. Ahle in Mühlhausen and was then taken over by J.S. Bach as his successor. As a student of J.S. Bach, Schubart was confirmed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in a letter to Forkel in 1775, without naming the places of instruction. He is known in the J.S. Bach literature as the scribe Anon. Weimar 1; Anon. M 1
References: Koska: A-2 |
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In August 2006, German researchers in Weimar said they had discovered the oldest known handwritten manuscripts of J.S. Bach. The two manuscripts contain copies that J.S. Bach made of organ music composed by Dietrich Buxtehude and Johann Adam Reincken, and date from around 1700. Researchers found the documents in the archives of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, where a previously unknown aria (BWV 1127) by Weimar was discovered in 2005. The library, housed in a 16th-century palace, was badly damaged by a fire in September 2004. While some 50,000 books were lost, the J.S. Bach scripts survived because they had been stored in the building's vault. Bach attached a note to the Reincken copy that confirmed he was studying at the time with the organist Georg Böhm in the north German town of Lüneburg. The manuscripts were found together with two previously unknown fantasias by Johann Pachelbel, copied by J.S. Bach's student Johann Martin Schubart. The newly discovered four tablatures found their way into the library as part of Schubart's estate. |
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Works of Bach he copied [Manuscript No. in Bach Digital / Work / Performance date] |
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D-B Mus.ms. 11471/1: "Kaiser": Jesus Christus ist um unser Missetat willen verwundet, Markus-Passion (Passions-Pasticcio), BNB I/K/1; BC D 5a, D 5b; BWV deest (Serie II:2), deest (Serie II:3); 500a, 1084, deest (Serie II:4) [Weimar voices: before 1713]
D-B Mus.ms. 30194, Faszikel 5: D. Buxtehude: Toccata in G-Dur (BuxWV 164)
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 59: BWV 185 [14.7.1715]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 1: BWV 162, Weimar version [5.10.1716]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 4: BWV 185 [14.7. 1715; 1715/1716?]
|D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 9: BWV 63; BNB I/An/4, Weimar [25.12.1714]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 23: BWV 172, Weimar, 1st version [1714]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 47: BWV 182, Weimar version [1714]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 109, Faszikel 1: BWV 12, Weimar version [22.4.1714]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 354: BWV 21, Weimar version [1714]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 377, Faszikel 1: BWV 71 [4.2.1708]
PL-Kj Mus.ms. Bach St 14, Faszikel 1: BWV 31, Weimar version [21.4.1715] |
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Sources:
1. Oxford Composer Companions J.S. Bach (Editor: Malcolm Boyd, OUP, 1999)
2. Article in The Associated Press (August 31, 2006)
3. Bernd Koska: Bachs Privatschüler in Bach-Jahrbuch 2019, English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2020)
4. Bach Digital Website (June 2019)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (June 2014, May 2020) |
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Links to other Sites |
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Schubart, Johann Martin (Bach Digital) |
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Bibliography |
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Sources: Walther L, S. 577 (= Dok II, Nr. 324); Dok VII, S. 56; Dok III, Nr. 803; Löffler 1929/31, Nr. 2; Löffler 1936, S. 105; Löffler 1953, Nr. 1; NBA IX/3, Nr. 1 (Anonymus M 1); BJ 2015, S. 101–108 (P. Wollny) |
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