Previous posts for January 13th are here: Richard Addinsell; Gwen Verdon (2020), Sophie Tucker (2021), Christoph Graupner (2022), Gwen Verdon (2023), and Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (2024)
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Christoph Graupner (13 January 1683 – 10 May 1760) was an important German composer and keyboard player.
I Coulda Been a Contender
Graupner spent the rest of his career at the court in Hesse-Darmstadt, where his primary responsibilities were to provide music for the court chapel. He composed 1356 cantatas for Sundays and feast days of the liturgical calendar. – adapted from Wikipedia
As critic David Vernier has summed up, Graupner is "one of those unfortunate victims of fate and circumstance – a contemporary of Bach, Handel, Telemann, etc., who has remained largely – and unfairly – neglected." – Wikipedia
In Hesse-Darmstadt Graupner cranked them out,
(I’m speaking of cantatas for the church),
And so today he gets a birthday shout,
(If you don’t know him, do a Google search).
By scholarly consensus, there’s no doubt
That Graupner should have had a higher perch,
But Fortune pre-ordained a different route,
And Fate the Fickle left him in the lurch.
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