Christian Gottlob Höpner

From the wages he received after his apprenticeship as a journeyman weaver, Höpner bought musical textbooks, practised independently on a small organ and attempted compositions.

The verdict was so encouraging that in 1827 Höpner applied to the court conductor Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) in Weimar, who advised him to devote himself entirely to music.

Höpner moved to Dresden, where from 1827 he was professionally taught by Johann Gottlob Schneider junior (1789–1864) for four years,[2] when he was organist at the Dresdner Hofkirche.

[4] After Höpner's work Zehn Adagio im freien Stil für die Orgel komponiert[5] was published by the Dresden publishing house Arnold and reviewed in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik by Oswald Lorenz (1806–1889) under his pseudonym Hans Grobgedakt, a public dispute developed between the two composers.

[14] The music historian Gotthold Frotscher (1897–1968) paid tribute to the chorale works of the "Dresden Kreuzkirche organist Christian Gottlob Hoepner" and highlighted the latter's "sense of sustained melodicism" in his "free pieces".