Johann Friedrich Doles

Johann Friedrich Doles.

Johann Friedrich Doles (23 April 1715 – 8 February 1797) was a German composer and pupil of J.S. Bach.

Doles was born in Steinbach-Hallenberg. He attended the University of Leipzig. He was Kantor at the Leipzig Thomasschule, conducting the Thomanerchor from 1756 to 1789; in that year (1789) he directed the performance of Bach's motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied that reportedly made a deep impression on Mozart. Doles wrote a manuscript treatise on singing which may preserve some elements of Bach's own methods.

References

• Oxford Composer Companions, J.S. Bach (1999), p. 140

External links

• Free scores by Johann Friedrich Doles in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)