points: After this German died in 1722, he was succeeded as director of the Thomasschule in Leipzig by Johann Sebastian Bach.
points: After this German died in 1722, he was succeeded as director of the Thomasschule in Leipzig by Johann Sebastian Bach. He may be considered the father of the piano sonata, and his best known work, to be found in Musical Representations of Some Bible Stories, is The Combat Between David and Goliath, which may be the first programmatic piano sonata.
points: After this German died in 1722, he was succeeded as director of the Thomasschule in Leipzig by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Johann {Kuhnau}