1691–1758

Introduction

Baptized: Jan­ua­ry 28, 1691, Waltershausen, Ger­ma­ny.

Died: Ap­ril 2, 1758, Frank­furt am Main, Ger­ma­ny.

Buried: St. Ka­tha­ri­nen­kirche, Frank­furt am Main, Ger­ma­ny.

Biography

König stu­died un­der Ge­org Phi­lipp Te­le­mann at the St. Ka­tha­rin­en­kir­che (St. Ca­ther­ine’s Church) in Frank­furt am Main, and lat­er suc­ceed­ed him.

He al­so served as mu­sic di­rect­or at the Barfüsser-Kir­che (Bare­foot Friars’ Church), and taught sing­ing at the lo­cal Gym­na­si­um.

Works

Sources

Music

Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pic­ture of Kö­nig (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),