Biography
Johann Georg Schübler (c.1720–1755) was a German engraver and organist, who belonged to the Schübler family of artisians from Zella in the Turingian forest. He studied with Bach in Leipzig during the early 1740s but is now remembered less as a composer than as a figure in the eighteenth-century world of German organ culture and music printing. His name endures above all through the title-page imprint of J. S. Bach’s “Sechs Chorale …” for organ (BWV 645–650), later nicknamed the Schübler Chorales after their publisher.
His fugue “Lass mich gehn, denn dort kommt meine Mutter her” has the same theme (and counter subject) as the fugue BWV 578 by Johann Sebastian Bach..
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