Johann Kropfgans

(1708-1770)

Wikipedia: Johann Kropfgans (Kropffgans, Kropffganss (1708 – 1770) was a German lutenist and composer.

Kropfgans was born in Breslau into the family of Johann Kropfgans Sr. He and his siblings Johanna Eleonora (b. 1710) and Johann Gottfried (b. 1714) all played the lute from a young age. He was a pupil of Silvius Leopold Weiss, with whom he has visited Johann Sebastian Bach in 1739.

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