Biography
Christian Umblaufft (1673–1757) was a Saxon church musician associated with Schneeberg in the Erzgebirge, where he is described as cantor and organist at St Wolfgang’s church. He appears in the documentary orbit of Johann Mattheson’s Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte (1740), and he is named in a first-person contemporary source as a teacher: in his 1740 autobiography, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel recalls studying music at the Lyceum in Schneeberg with the cantor Christian Umblaufft, whom he describes as a scholar in Johann Kuhnau’s line, and credits him with grounding him in thoroughbass and composition. Umblaufft’s surviving musical footprint is closely tied to the “Schneeberger Orgel- und Clavierbuch,” a manuscript source that preserves a group of preludes attributed to him (including preludes in C major, C minor, E minor, G minor, F minor, and D major) alongside works by other contemporaries.
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