Music Director, composer
Also known as Philipp Baumgarten
Born: 30 November 1768, London, Middlesex, England
Died: 17 December 1800, Augsburg, Bavaria
Died: 17 December 1800, Augsburg, Bavaria
Father: Samuel Christian Frederick Baumgarten, 1724-1798
Mother: Mary Joynes, about 1729-1770
Spouse: Maria Magdalena Euphrosyna Striegel, c1775-1841
Married on 1 February 1796 in Augsburg.
Biographical information
Joynes Philip Baumgarten was baptised on 7 December 1768 at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster.
He next appeared in records in 1791 in Augsburg, training with the Music Director at St Anna’s Protestant Church, Friedrich Hartmann Graf. He clearly retained the family love of church music, and was appointed as the Music Director at St Anna’s after the death of Graf, in 1795.
He married a local woman, Maria Magdalena Euphrosyna Striegel, in a home wedding in 1796. It is unknown if they had any children.
Baumgarten died in Augsburg on 17 September 1800, at the age of 31.
According to records of Ernst Haussler, the Music Director who took over from Baumgarten, there were 34 cantatas attributed to Philipp Baumgarten, though it is thought that most of them are lost. The only known composition is a reworking of Auf das große Frieden - Fest Anno 1780 und 1781 by both Baumgarten and Graf, entitled Er ist, er war von Ewigkeit.
There is a undigitised publication in Google Books which is attributed to Joynes Philipp Baumgarten, entitled Die in Stürmen, und Ungewittern um Rettung seufzende Gemeine, published by Späth in 1795.
