Emanuel Leberecht Gottschalck (Organ, Copyist)

Born: unknown
Died: Late August 1727 (buried: September 1, 1727) - Köthen (Anhalt), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Emanuel Leberecht Gottschalck was organist at Agnuskirche in Köthen, where the organ was built by Johann Heinrich Müller in 1708. With his employment as Prince Leopold chamber valet in 1718, Christian Ernst Rolle, who had immigrated from Halle (Saale), took over the office of organist. He became a copyist of the Köthen Court Capelle in April 1719; and thus belonged to J.S. Bach's work environment. Hans-Joachim Schulze hypothetically identified his hand in the manuscript copy of the Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin BWV 1001-1006 prepared in or around 1720 by a copyist from Köthen. This scribe is also found in the original performance parts of the seculsar Cantata BWV 184a and in parts of Cantata BWV 21. He is identified in J.S. Bach's manuscripts as Anon. 6.

Early in 1719 J.S. Bach was in Berlin to acquire a new harpsichord for the Köthen princely court that had been ordered from Michael Mietke, court instrument maker in Berlin.The harpsichord arrived in Köthen on or shortly before March 14, 1719, the chamber valet Emanuel Leberecht Gottschalck was reimburced for 8 talers cartage "for the Berlin Claveçyn". He succeeded J.S. Bach.

References: Bach Digital: 00002410

Works of Bach he copied [Manuscript No. in Bach Digital / Work / Performance date]

D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 968, Faszikel 1: BWV 1001-1006 [c1720]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 24: BWV 184a [1720/1721]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 354: BWV 21, Köthen version [1717-1722]

Sources:
1. Christoph Wolff: J.S. Bach - The Learned Musician (W.W. Nortoin& Company, 2001), pp 193, 209
2. Bach Digital Website (March 2019)
3. Bits & pieces from other sources
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (May 2020)

Links to other Sites

Gottschalck, Emanuel Leberecht (Bach Digital)

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