Thomaskantor

The Thomaskantor is the cantor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig. The choir was founded in 1212.

List of cantors

Name (biographical details)	Incumbency	Comments
Georg Rhau * um 1488 in Eisfeld † 6. August 1548 in Wittenberg	1518–1520	Rhau was also a publisher but no works of his own seem to have survived.
Johannes Galliculus * um 1490 in Dresden † um 1550 in Leipzig	1520–1525
Valerian Hüffeler	1526–1530
Johannes Hermann * 1515 in Zittau † 22. April 1593 in Freiberg	1531–1536
Wolfgang Jünger * um 1517 in Sayda † 4. March 1564 in Großschirma	1536–1539
Johannes Bruckner	1539–1540
Ulrich Lange † 1549 in Leipzig	1540–1549
Wolfgang Figulus * um 1525 in Naumburg (Saale) † 1589 in Meißen	1549–1551
Melchior Heger * in Brüx (today: Most)	1553–1564
Valentin Otto * 1529 in Markkleeberg † April 1594	1564–1594
Sethus Calvisius * 21. February 1556 in Gorsleben † 24. November 1615 in Leipzig	1594–1615
Johann Hermann Schein * 20. January 1586 in Grünhain † 19. November 1630 in Leipzig	1615–1630
Tobias Michael * 13. Juni 1592 in Dresden † 26. Juni 1657 in Leipzig	1631–1657
Sebastian Knüpfer * 6. September 1633 in Asch † 10. October 1676 in Leipzig	1657–1676
Johann Schelle * 6. September 1648 in Geising † 10. March 1701 in Leipzig	1677–1701
Johann Kuhnau * 6. April 1660 in Geising † 5. Juni 1722 in Leipzig	1701–1722
Johann Sebastian Bach * 21. March 1685 in Eisenach † 28. Juli 1750 in Leipzig	1723–1750
Johann Gottlob Harrer * 1703 in Görlitz † 9. Juli 1755 in Karlsbad	1750–1755
Johann Friedrich Doles * 23. April 1715 in Steinbach-Hallenberg † 8. February 1797 in Leipzig	1756–1789
Johann Adam Hiller * 25. December 1728 in Wendisch-Ossig (today Osiek Łużycki) bei Görlitz † 16. Juni 1804 in Leipzig	1789–1801	Hiller was conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra from 1781 till 1785.
August Eberhard Müller * 13. December 1767 in Northeim † 3. December 1817 in Weimar	1801–1810	Müller was conductor of the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar from 1810 till 1817
Johann Gottfried Schicht * 29. September 1753 in Reichenau (Sachsen) † 16. February 1823 in Leipzig	1810–1823
Christian Theodor Weinlig * 25. Juli 1780 in Dresden † 7. March 1842 in Leipzig	1823–1842	Weinlig was also Kreuzkantor (conductor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor) from 1814 till 1817
Moritz Hauptmann * 13. October 1792 in Dresden † 3. January 1868 in Leipzig	1842–1868
Ernst Friedrich Richter * 24. October 1808 in Großschönau (Lausitz) † 9. April 1879 in Leipzig	1868–1879
Wilhelm Rust * 15. August 1822 in Dessau † 2. May 1892 in Leipzig	1880–1892
Gustav Schreck * 8. September 1849 in Zeulenroda † 22. January 1918 in Leipzig	1893–1918
Karl Straube * 6. January 1873 in Berlin † 27. April 1950 in Leipzig	1918–1939
Günther Ramin * 15. October 1898 in Karlsruhe † 27. February 1956 in Leipzig	1939–1956	Works still protected by copyright
Kurt Thomas * 25. May 1904 in Tönning † 31. March 1973 in Bad Oeynhausen	1957–1960	Works still protected by copyright
Erhard Mauersberger * 29. December 1903 in Mauersberg bei Marienberg † 11. December 1982 in Leipzig	1961–1972	Works still protected by copyright
Hans-Joachim Rotzsch * 25. April 1929 in Leipzig	1972–1991	Works still protected by copyright
Georg Christoph Biller * 20. September 1955 in Nebra (Unstrut)	since 1992	Works still protected by copyright