Christoph Bernhard (1628 - 1692)

Allemagne

Christoph Bernhard was born on 1 January 1628, in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died on 14 November 1692, in Dresden. He studied in Gdañsk and Warsaw, and by the age of 20 was singing at the electoral court in Dresden under Heinrich Schütz. He then spent a year in Copenhagen to study singing with Agostino Fontana. After his appointment as assistant kapellmeister in Dresden in 1655, Bernhard made two sojourns to Italy to further his musical education. When he was 35, he moved to Hamburg to work as th ... (Read all)
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