Strattner was an innovative composer who created new musical forms by combining madrigalian texts with biblical words and chorales, influencing Johann Sebastian Bach's early cantatas.
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Strattner was expelled from Frankfurt for life in 1692 due to his involvement in an adultery scandal, a case well-documented in court files.
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Strattner was appointed Director of Music for the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt in 1682, likely on the recommendation of theologian Philipp Jacob Spener.
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After his expulsion from Frankfurt, Strattner eventually found employment at the court of the Dukes of Saxe-Weimar, where he briefly served as Johann Sebastian Bach's superior in 1703.
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At the age of 21, Strattner became Kapellmeister at the court of Margrave Friedrich VI of Baden-Durlach, a remarkably young age for such a responsible position.
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Strattner's distant relative, Samuel Capricornus, who later became Court Kapellmeister in Stuttgart, played a significant role in his early musical education.
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Georg Christoph Strattner, the composer, was born around 1645 in Gols, then part of Hungary, into a musical family.
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