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Daniel Magnus Gronau (born c. 1685, probably in Insterburg; died February 2, 1747 in Danzig) was a German church musician and composer.
Gronau's origins and training are in the dark. From 1717 he is documented as organist in Danzig. Here he was on the small organ in the St. Anne's Chapel from 1717 to 1719 , from 1719 to 1724 on the small organ of the Katharinenkirche , from 1724 to 1730 on the choir organ of the Marienkirche and from 1730 until his death on the large organ of the Johanniskirche active.
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Gronau composed songs, preludes and more than 500 fugues in the style of the north German organ school . Because of their extensive registration instructions, his chorale variations are an important source for organ playing in the 18th century. The manuscript, two volumes with chorale variations of around 100 chorales, had been lost since 1945 until a microfilm made in 1981 was discovered in the Newberry Library in 2012 , which made a complete edition possible for the first time.
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