Hurlebusch, Conrad Friedrich 12/30/1691 - 12/17/1765

Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch (1691-1765) was born in Braunschweig, Germany. He received his first education from his father Heinrich Lorenz Hurlebusch, an organist and composer. As a keyboard virtuoso he devoted much of his life to tours through Europe, visiting Vienna, Munich and Italy. From 1723 to 1725, he was a Kapellmeister in Stockholm. He held the same position in Bayreuth, Hamburg (from 1727) and Braunschweig. He is supposed to have visited he visited Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig in 1735. In 1743, he became organist at the Oude Kerk (Old Church) in Amsterdam, a post he retained until his death.



His output consists of cantatas, operas (L’Innocenza Difesa, Flavio Cuniberto), psalms, odes, concertos and keyboard sonatas, much of which have been lost. His 150 psalms were published in Amsterdam in 1766. The "Sammlung verschiedener und auserlesener Oden" (1737-1743) by Johann Friedrich Gräfe contains 72 of his odes.