Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712) - Das ist das ewige Leben

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Composer: Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712)
Work: Das ist das ewige Leben
Performers: Veronika Wintеr (soprano); Franz Vіtzthum (alto); Immo Schrödеr (tenor); Markus Flаіg (bass);
Rheinische Kаntorеi; Das Klеinе Konzert; Hermann Mаx (conductor)

Painting: Johann Georg Platzer (1704-1761) - The Queen of Sheba before Solomon
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Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow [Zachau]
(Leipzig, bap. 14 November 1663 - Halle, 7 August 1712)

German composer and organist. His maternal grandfather and father were Stadtpfeifer, and he received training in organ and as a Stadtpfeifer. In 1676 he went with his family to Eilenburg, where he most likely studied with Johann Hildebrand. From 1684 until his death he was organist at the Marienkirche in Halle, where he also led the noted musical performances every third Sunday. Zachow was one of the leading composers of church cantatas and keyboard works of his day. He is remembered chiefly as Handel's teacher but is important in his own right as a composer of church cantatas and keyboard music. Zachow became an eminent teacher and besides Handel his pupils included Gottfried Kirchhoff, J.G. Krieger and J.G. Ziegler. Surviving from an apparently large output, are about 30 cantatas in various forms from sacred concerto to operatic, a chorale mass, 3 Latin motets, about 50 keyboard chorales, and about 20 assorted keyboard works.