Christoph Stoltzenberg (* February 21, 1690 in Wertheim; † June 11, 1764 in Regensburg) was a German composer.
Christoph Stoltzenberg (also spelled Stolzenberg) attended the ''Schule zum Heiligen Geist'' in Nuremberg in 1701. He moved to Worms to live with his sisters in 1703 and continued his education there. From 1706, he attended the Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main, where he received piano and violin lessons and was employed as a chorister. Stoltzenberg returned to Nuremberg in 1708. This was followed by a one-year stay with his brother in Hamburg. The return journey in 1709 went via Lüneburg, Dresden, Bohemia and Moravia to Salzburg, then to Nuremberg via Regensburg and Altdorf.
In Nuremberg, Stoltzenberg began music studies under Nikolaus Deinl in 1710. He successfully applied for the position of cantor in Sulzbach in 1711. He married the mayor's daughter Kunigunda Wuttig. With her he had two daughters and a son. In 1714, the Regensburg city council appointed him cantor at the Gymnasium poeticum and church music director of the Neupfarr, Oswald, and Dreieinigkeit churches.[1]
After the death of his wife in 1717, Stoltzenberg married the pastor's daughter Christiana Anna Thillens, with whom he had eight daughters and three sons. He acquired Regensburg citizenship in 1719.
He died unexpectedly on June 11, 1764, his second wife surviving him by 14 years. His son Ehrenreich Carl succeeded him in the cantor's office.
Honors
In his places of work Sulzbach-Rosenberg and Regensburg there is a Stolzenbergstraße.
The naturalist, inventor and pastor Jacob Christian Schäffer dedicated his book "Erläuterte Vorschläge zur Ausbesserung und Förderung der Naturwissenschaft" (Regensburg, 2nd edition 1764, published by Johann Leopold Montag) to Christoph Stolzenberg, "the best-deserving generally beloved and honored teacher of fifty years. Source: Wikipedia
Note: Translated from the German version of Wikipedia into English.
