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Johann Nicolaus Mempel (Kantor, Copyist, Bach's Pupil?) |
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Born: December 10, 1713 - Heyda, near Ilmenau, Thuringia, Germany
Died: February 1747 (buried: February 26, 1747) - Apolda, Thuringia, Germany |
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Johann Nicolaus Mempel [variants: Nikolaus, Mempell, Mämpel] was a German musician. He was born the son of Johann Veit Mempel (schoolmaster in Heyda). From 1740 to his death, he seved as Kantor in Apolda. Along with Johann Gottlieb Preller, he copied one of the most important manuscript collections of the organ and keyboard music of J.S. Bach, known as the Mempell-Preller-Handschrift. He may have come into contact with J.S. Bach's music when he was a student of Johann Peter Kellner or through Johann Gottfried Walther, though it is not known for certain.
Since Johann Nicolaus Mempel is known as an important J.S. Bach collector (Sammlung Mempel-Preller), Löffler assumed that he took his lessons from J.S. Bach. According to J.N. Mempel's biographical data, this should have taken place in Leipzig in the 1730's, but is unlikely. On the one hand, a stay of J.N. Mempel in J.S. Bach, for example through the university matrices, cannot be proven; on the other hand, after Hans-Joachim Schulze and Peter Wollny, training appears with other members of the Bach family in Ohrdruf or Arnstadt, or with Bachians such as Johann Peter Kellner (C-14) in Gräfenroda or Johann Caspar Vogler (A-1) in Weimar.
References: Koska: C-19; GND: 1076406793; Bach Digital: |
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Works of Bach he copied [Manuscript No. in Bach Digital / Work / Performance/Copying date] |
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D-B Mus.ms. 11544, Faszikel 9: Johann Peter Kellner: Fuge in d (Fechner 6.3); BWV Anh. 180
D-B Mus.ms. 11544, Faszikel 10: Johann Peter Kellner: Fuge in a (Fechner 6.4), Menuett in a (Fechner 3.2)
D-B Mus.ms. 11544, Faszikel 11: Johann Peter Kellner: Fuge in D (Fechner 6.5)
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 804, Faszikel 10: BWV 963; BWV 579
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 1084: BWV 894
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 1095: BWV 532
D-LEb Peters Ms. 7, Faszikel 5 (Depositum im Bach-Archiv): BWV 754; Emans 128
D-LEb Peters Ms. 7, Faszikel 8 (Depositum im Bach-Archiv): BWV 743; Emans 17
D-LEb Peters Ms. 7, Faszikel 11 (Depositum im Bach-Archiv): BWV 532/1, BWV 921, 551 (ab T. 12, 2. Note)
D-LEb Peters Ms. 7, Faszikel 13 (Depositum im Bach-Archiv): BWV 597 / Anh. II 46->
D-LEb Peters Ms. 7, Faszikel 18 (Depositum im Bach-Archiv): BWV 550
D-LEb Peters Ms. 7, Faszikel 21 (Depositum im Bach-Archiv): BWV 635
D-LEb Peters Ms. 8, Faszikel 7 (Depositum im Bach-Archiv): BWV 816 (Sequence: 1,2,3,4,6,7)
D-LEb Peters Ms. 8, Faszikel 24 (Depositum im Bach-Archiv): BWV 912 (T. 1-127 = bis T. 1 der Fuge) |
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Sources:
1. Wikipedia Website (December 2018)
2. Bernd Koska: Bachs Privatschüler in Bach-Jahrbuch 2019, English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2020)
3. Bach Digital Website (February 2019)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (August 2019, May 2020) |
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Links to other Sites |
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Johann Nicolaus Mempel (Wikipedia)
Mempel, Johann Nicolaus (Bach Digital) |
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Bibliography |
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Hans Löffler : Bachs Schüler in Thüringen, in J. S. Bach in Thüringen (Weimar, 1950)
Sources 2: Löffler 1929/31, Nr. 10; Löffler 1936, S. 107f.; Löffler 1953, Nr. 13; Schulze Bach-Überlieferung, S. 71, 83f.; BJ 2015, S. 116 (P. Wollny)
References 3: NBA IV/1–8, 10, 11; V/1–3, 5–11 |
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