Jan Josef Ignác Brentner

Jan Josef Ignác Brentner (, surname also spelled Brenntner, Brendtner; 3 November 1689 – 28 June 1742) was a Czech composer of the Baroque era. Biography Jan Josef Ignác Brentner was born into the family of the mayor of the town of Dobřany in the Kingdom of Bohemia. He seems to have preferred his middle name Josef/Joseph. Known information about his life comes mostly from time he spent in Prague, from 1717 to about 1720, where he published four collections of music. Brentner’s opuses 1 and 3 are collections of sacred arias for voice, strings, and continuo, Harmonica duodecatomeria ecclesiastica (1716) and Hymnodia divina (1718 or 1719). In addition, Brentner published a collection of six offertories for chorus, strings, and continuo entitled Offertoria solenniora (1717) as his opus 2 and a collection of six chamber concertos, Horae pomeridianae seu Concertus cammerales (1720) as his opus 4. Brentner’s patron was Raymond Wilfert, abbot of the Premonstratensian (Norbertine) monastery in Teplá, to whom the Op. 2 was dedicated. Brentner’s funeral motets were written specifically for the Brotherhood of St. Nicholas Church in Prague. Brentner died in his birth town Dobřany under unclear