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Composer information for 'Janitsch, Johann Gottlieb'
| Name: | Janitsch |
| First name: | Johann Gottlieb |
| Dates: | (1708 - 1762) |
| Misc. info: | Gambist and lawyer, contrabassist in Friedrich II's orch. and organizer of the famous 'Friday Academies' in his house in Berlin. J's quartets, which J.W.Hertel called '...still today[1784] the best models of this form [noch zur Zeit die besten Muster dieser Art]', represent an estimable and beautiful part of the Ob repertoire. They survive in numerous versions, sometimes in different instrumentations and keys; all have been compared here.J. worked with the oboists Johann Christian Jacobi (b.1719) and possibly Peter Glösch (...1706-by1754). |
| Oboist: | No |