Johann Gottlieb Görner was a German composer and organist. His brother was the composer Johann Valentin Görner

Johann Valentin Görner

Johann Valentin Görner was a German composer. His brother was the organist Johann Gottlieb Görner.-External links:...

 and his son the organist Karl Friedrich Görner

Karl Friedrich Görner

Karl Friedrich Görner was a German organist. His father was Johann Gottlieb Görner. His pupils included the Leipzig cantor Friedrich Doles....

. He was a student at the Thomasschule zu Leipzig

Thomasschule zu Leipzig

St. Thomas School, Leipzig is a co-educational and public boarding school in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It was founded by the Augustinians in 1212 and is one of the oldest schools in the world.St. Thomas is known for its art, language and music education...

 and University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...

, then organist of the city's Paulinerkirche

Paulinerkirche, Leipzig

The Paulinerkirche was a church on the Augustusplatz in Leipzig, named after the "Pauliner", its original Dominican friars. It was built in 1231 as the Klosterkirche St. Pauli for the Dominican monastery in Leipzig. From the foundation of the University of Leipzig in 1409, it served as the...

 from 1716 (whose music director he became in 1723) then its Nikolaikirche from 1721. In 1723 he founded a Collegium Musicum, which sensitively competed with Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

's. He died in Leipzig.

External links

• Görner Renaissance-Musikverlag