Photo: Johannes (Jan) Voorhout (1647-1723) · Public domain · credits
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Johann Philipp Förtsch
Person · male · Germany · Wertheim · born 1652 · died 1732 · recording since 2016
German opera composer
Timeline
5 events▣ Album 2◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1650s
1730s
2010s
· Debut release
Debut release: Funeral Music from Gottorf
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
2020s
Biography
English biography113 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1341919881
Biography
Johann Philipp Förtsch (14 May 1652 – 14 December 1732) was a German baroque composer, statesman and medical doctor.
Life
Förtsch was born in Wertheim and possibly received his musical education from Johann Philipp Krieger. Moving to Hamburg in 1674 to write librettos, he then became in the 1680s one of the main composers in the heyday of the Oper am Gänsemarkt. In later life he returned to medicine.
Selected discography
Dialogs, Psalms & Sacred Concertos. La Capella Ducale; Musica Fiata dir. Roland Wilson (conductor) rec. live, 26 October 2007 CPO 777369-2 [79:09]
Sacred works, "Ich freue mich im Herrn" Monika Mauch, Barbara Bübl, Alex Potter, Hans Jörg Mammel, Markus Flaig, L'arpa festante, Rien Voskuilen. Carus-Verlag
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 | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -284 | 1.9th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (2 release groups · 2 studio albums)
Albums · 2
2016 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:09:06
1Unser Leben währet siebenzig Jahr16:362Ich habe einen guten Kampf gekämpft"8:373Ich vergesse, was dahinten ist6:044Unser keiner lebet ihm selber18:425Plötzlich müssen die Leute sterben19:072022 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 1:08:22
1Nun ist des Satans Macht gefället10:252Ach, ich elender Mensch8:383Herr, wer wird wohnen in deiner Hütten?6:374Meine Augen rinnen mit Wasserbächen8:085Der Herr hat seinen Engeln befohlen über dir7:336Jesu, du hast weggenommen12:017Weh denen, die auf Erden wohnen7:398Nun dancket alle Gott, der große Dinge tut7:21
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Johann Philipp Förtsch head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -284 | 1.9th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Philipp_F%C3%B6rtsch.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bb764571-bf0d-4678-8698-e4ff9efd1ebadiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bb764571-bf0d-4678-8698-e4ff9efd1ebacore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q878238genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q878238seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Philipp_F%C3%B6rtschbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Philipp_F%C3%B6rtsch
Why this artist is in the database
- List of composers by name
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Johannes (Jan) Voorhout (1647-1723) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q878238 · MusicBrainz: bb764571-bf0d-4678-8698-e4ff9efd1eba
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