Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (18 September 1697 (bapt.) â 7 May 1775) was a German organist and composer. He was born in Nuremberg, where he appears to have spent his whole life in various organists' posts, including:
He may have studied with J. S. Bach in Weimar (1716âÂÂ1717), and his compositions reveal points of contact with Bach. They include a concerto for harpsichord solo, perhaps modelled on the Italian Concerto. A variant of the slow movement of his solo concerto Divertimento armonico was once thought to be by Bach: it was published as a prelude by Bach in the 19th-century Bach-Gesellschaft edition, and listed in the first edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV) as the first movement of BWV 897 (BWV 897/1).