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Johann Jakob Walther
Person · male · Germany · Witterda · born 1650 · died 1717 · recording since 2005
German violinist and composer
Also known as Johann Jacob Walther · ヨハン・ヤーコプ・ヴァルター
Timeline
6 events▣ Album 3◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1650s
1710s
2000s
· Debut release
Debut release: Hortulus Chelicus Mainz, 1688
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
2020s
Biography
English biography155 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373956785
Biography
Johann Jakob Walther (1650 – 2 November 1717) was a German violinist and composer.
Life
All the known facts of his life and activity are from the Musikalischen Lexikon by Johann Gottfried Walther (Johann Sebastian Bach's cousin), a dictionary which first appeared in 1732. J. J. Walther was born in Witterda bei Erfurt. Between 1670 and 1674 he is said to have remained a violinist in the orchestra of Cosimo III of the Medicis in Florence. From 1674 he was concertmaster at the court of Dresden. After the death of his patron in 1680 he became the Italian secretary at the elector's court in Mainz and was ordained a canon. He died in Mainz.
Alongside Biber and Westhoff, J. J. Walther is one of the most significant German violinists of the 17th century. Besides a virtuoso technique including doublestops and arpeggios, his works display a wealth of formal devices, especially in the treatment of ostinato variations.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 3 | 77.1th |
| Studio albums | 3 | 80.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 6 | 80.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -288 | 1.8th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (3 release groups · 3 studio albums)
Albums · 3
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 29 tracks · 1:13:31
1Suite n°9 en do mineur: I. Preludio3:312Suite n°9 en do mineur: II. Allemanda2:133Suite n°9 en do mineur: III. Corrente1:294Suite n°9 en do mineur: IV. Sarabanda1:275Suite n°9 en do mineur: V. Giga2:036Suite n°8 en Mi Majeur: I. Preludio2:347Suite n°8 en Mi Majeur: II. Aria – Variatio0:538Suite n°8 en Mi Majeur: III. Sarabanda – Variatio3:259Suite n°8 en Mi Majeur: IV. Giga1:0710Aria n°14 en sol mineur6:4911Suite n°6 si mineur: I. Preludio4:1412Suite n°6 si mineur: II. Allemanda2:3913Suite n°6 si mineur: III. Corrente – Variatio1:4914Suite n°6 si mineur: IV. Sarabanda – Variatio2:3815Suite n°6 si mineur: V. Giga1:2916Suite n°6 si mineur: VI. Finale1:3817Suite n°20 en mi mineur: I. Preludio2:2818Suite n°20 en mi mineur: II. Allemanda1:3119Suite n°20 en mi mineur: III. Corrente – Variatio1:4920Suite n°20 en mi mineur: IV. Sarabanda – Variatio3:1321Suite n°20 en mi mineur: V. Giga1:0522Serenata n°28 en Ré Majeur: I. Coro di Violini0:5523Serenata n°28 en Ré Majeur: II. Organo Tremolante1:1224Serenata n°28 en Ré Majeur: III. Aria a violino solo – Chitarrino – Piva2:2625Serenata n°28 en Ré Majeur: IV. Timpani – Tromba – Bicinio di due Trombe2:2726Serenata n°28 en Ré Majeur: V. Violini e Violino solo – Lira Todesca – Adagio. Violino solo e coro3:2927Serenata n°28 en Ré Majeur: VI. Harpa smorzata2:3628Serenata n°28 en Ré Majeur: VII. Finale con archi0:4229Passagagli n°7 en ré mineur9:40Johann Jakob Walter & Johann Paul Westhoff
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 1:09:02
1Sonata VIII in C8:132Suite I in A minor2:433Suite I in A minor2:184Suite I in A minor2:035Suite I in A minor1:516Sonata IX in D7:397Sonata VI in B flat6:068Suite VI in D2:419Suite VI in D1:3210Suite VI in D1:5911Suite VI in D1:5512Aria in E minor5:4413Sonata VII in A8:1014Suite IV in C2:1215Suite IV in C1:4816Suite IV in C1:2017Suite IV in C2:4618Imitatione del Cuccu in G8:02Johann Jakob Walther: Scherzi da violino solo
2022 · studio album
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Johann Jakob Walther head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 3 | 77.1th |
| Studio albums | 3 | 80.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 6 | 80.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -288 | 1.8th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9086f685-07a8-4428-8f3d-845c916bc08acore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q546086seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Walther_%28composer%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Walther_%28composer%29
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Wikidata: Q546086 · MusicBrainz: 9086f685-07a8-4428-8f3d-845c916bc08a
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