A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Barthel, Johann

by Mary Catherine Hamilton

BARTHEL, Johann Christian, born at Plauen 1776, a musician from a very early age, in 1789 played at the house of Doles before Mozart, who praised him highly, and soon after entered the school of St. Thomas at Leipsic as a pupil of J. A. Hiller. At sixteen, on Hiller's recommendation, he was appointed concert-conductor to the court of Schöneburg, and some time afterwards occupied a similar post at Greitz. In 1806, on the death of J. G. Krebs, was appointed organist to the court of Altenburg, where he remained till his death in 1831.

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