Hientzsch, Johann Gottfried

1787-1856

German composer; born at Mokrehna, near Torgan. He studied at the Thomas School and the University of Leipzic. He lived for some years in Switzerland as a teacher in order to learn Pestalozzi's method. He held successive positions as teacher at the Neuzelle Seminary, Breslau Seminary, at Potsdam, and in the Berlin Institute for the Blind. He published church melodies for school use, also treatises on singing. From 1828 to 1837 he edited an educational musical journal, the Eutonia.