Melchior Hoffmann (composer)
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Georg Melchior Hoffmann was a Baroque composer who was influential as the leader at the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig. Some of his compositions have been mistaken for those of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Early 18th-century manuscript copy, likely written by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, of the "Traversa" part of Hoffmann's c. 1707 Magnificat in A minor (BWV Anh. 21, formerly attributed to Bach)
St. Matthew, Leipzig
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St. Matthew was a church in the old town of Leipzig. During its history it had several names and functions. As a church of the Franciscan order, built in 1488, it was known as Barfüßerkirche and Heili
Melchior Hoffmann (composer)
…Stölzel. He was noted for expanding the orchestra at the Collegium to more than 40 musicians. Other responsibilities included being the organist at the Neukirche, and director of the Leipzig civic opera, for which he composed several works. He is known to have journeyed to England sometime around the years…
Neukirche in 1749
Matthäikirche c. 1912
Ruins after the bombing