Johann Theodor Roemhildt


Johann Theodor Roemhildt was a German Baroque composer born in Salzungen. As a child, he studied in Ruhla with Johann Jacob Bach; and from age thirteen on at St. Thomas' School, Leipzig under Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau. His fellow students included Christoph Graupner, Johann Friedrich Fasch and Johann David Heinichen.
Roemhildt was court kapellmeister to Heinrich Duke of Saxony at Merseburg, where he later died.

Works, editions and recordings

236 of Roemhildt's cantatas survive, 50 of which are solo cantatas, along with a St. Matthew Passion.