Georg Gebel (the younger)

Georg Gebel (October 25, 1709 – September 24, 1753) was a German musician and composer.

Gebel was born in Brieg, Silesia, to Georg Gebel the Elder, also a musician and composer. He studied music under his father, and in 1729 became second organist at the church of St. Mary Magdalene in Breslau, as well as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Oels. He joined Heinrich von Brühl's orchestra in Dresden in 1735, where he met Pantaleon Hebenstreit, the inventor of the pantalon, and learned to play that instrument. In 1747 he was appointed Kapellmeister to John Frederick, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. He died in Rudolstadt in 1753.

Gebel was a prolific composer. While in Breslau, he wrote a variety of instrumental and vocal music, and while in Rudolstadt, wrote 12 operas, two Passions, two Christmas cantatas, sets of cantatas for several years, more than 100 orchestra symphonies, partitas, concertos, and so on.

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*cite encyclopedia | title = Gebel, Georg (Jr.) | encyclopedia = Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians | editor = Theodore Baker and Alfred Remy | edition = 3rd edition | year = 1919 | pages = p. 301 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=H2kNAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA301#PPA301,M1