Johann Nicolaus Mempel
Appearance
Johann Nicolaus Mempel (variants: Nikolaus, Mempell, Mämpel) (10 December 1713 – 26 February 1747) was a German musician.
He was born in Heyda (now part of Ilmenau, Thuringia). From 1740 to his death, he was cantor in Apolda. Along with Johann Gottlieb Preller, he copied one of the most important manuscript collections of the organ and keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach, known as the Mempell-Preller-Handschrift.
He may have come into contact with Bach's music when he was a student of Johann Peter Kellner or through Johann Gottfried Walther, though it is not known for certain.[citation needed]
Further reading
- Hans Löffler: Bachs Schüler in Thüringen, in J. S. Bach in Thüringen (Weimar 1950)
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- 1713 births
- 1747 deaths
- People from Ilmenau
- People from Saxe-Weimar
- German classical organists
- Male organists
- German classical pianists
- German Baroque composers
- 18th-century classical composers
- 18th-century keyboardists
- German classical composers
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