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{{Short description|German organist and composer (bapt. 1697–1775)}}
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'''Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel''' (18 September 1697 (bapt.) – 7 May 1775) was a German organist and composer. He was born in [[Nuremberg]], where he appears to have spent his whole life in various organists' posts, including:
* [[St. Egidien, Nuremberg]] 1719–1743
* [[St. Lorenz, Nuremberg]] 1743–1764
* [[St. Sebaldus Church, Nuremberg]] 1764–1775
He may have studied with [[J.S. Bach]] in [[Weimar]] (1716–1717), and his compositions reveal points of contact with Bach. They include a concerto for [[harpsichord]] solo, perhaps modelled on the ''[[Italian Concerto]]''. A variant of the slow movement of {{ill|Divertimento armonico||Divertimento armonico (Dretzel, Cornelius Heinrich)|lt=this solo concerto}} was once thought to be by Bach: it was published as a Prelude by Bach in the 19th-century [[Bach-Gesellschaft]] edition, and listed in the first edition of the ''[[Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis]]'' (BWV) as the first movement of BWV 897 (BWV 897/1).{{sfn|Ahlgrimm|1969}}
==References==
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==Sources==
* {{cite book |last1=Ahlgrimm |first1=Isolde |author-link1=Isolde Ahlgrimm |date=1969 |chapter=Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel, der Autor des J. S. Bach zugeschriebenen Klavierwerkes BWV 897 |trans-chapter=Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel, the composer of the keyboard piece BWV&nbsp;897, ascribed to J.&nbsp;S. Bach |chapter-url=https://journals.qucosa.de/ejournals/bjb/article/view/1932 |editor1-last=Dürr |editor1-first=Alfred |editor1-link=Alfred Dürr |editor2-last=Neumann |editor2-first=Werner |editor2-link=Werner Neumann |title=Bach-Jahrbuch 1969 |trans-title=Bach Yearbook 1969 |url=https://journals.qucosa.de/ejournals/bjb/issue/view/131 |series=[[Bach-Jahrbuch]] |language=de |volume=55 |others=[[Neue Bachgesellschaft]] |location=Berlin |publisher=[[Evangelische Verlagsanstalt]] |pages=67–77 |doi=10.13141/bjb.v1969 }}
* ''Oxford Composer Companions, J.S. Bach,'' 1999, p.&nbsp;142
==Further reading==
* {{Skeptoid|id=4799|number=799|title=On the Authorship of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor: The most famous organ work in history has a surprising mystery – we're not really sure who composed it! |date=September 28, 2021}} – reviews speculation that J.S. Bach did not compose the work.
==External links==
* {{IMSLP|id=Dretzel, Cornelius Heinrich}}
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