Johann Gotthilf Ziegler [SEP] place of death
Johann Gotthilf Ziegler
Johann Gotthilf Ziegler (25 March 1688 in Leubnitz – 15 September 1747 in Halle an der Saale) was a German baroque composer and organist. He is a descendant of a musical family, not unlike that of J.S. Bach, though on a somewhat smaller scale, and belongs, together with Gottfried Kirchhoff and Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow to the group of composers of the so-called "Hallischen Spätbarock". His father was the schoolhead and organist Daniel Ziegler (born 1630), son of the Saxon schoolteacher Johann
Ziegler.
Life.
Ziegler had already caused a stir as a child prodigy at the Dresdener court of August the Strong, as his contemporary Johann Gottfried Walther, a distant cousin of Bach, wrote in his "Musicalischem Lexicon" that he could sing at the age four, play the keyboard a couple of years later, and as a 10-year-old play the organ at religious services. 
Gotthilf became a pupil of Christian Petzold, organist of the Sophienkirche. He also studied three years in the "Collegium musicum