Johann Georg Rollig

Johann Georg Röllig (1710–1790) was a German composer, organist and chapel master at Zerbst. From the age of 17, Röllig was a student at the Dresden Kreuzschule. In 1736, he matriculated at the University of Leipzig to study theology. In 1737, Prince Johann August of Anhalt-Zerbst heard Röllig perform and appointed him Court Organist and Court Musician. On the death of court Kapellmeister, Johann Friedrich Fasch, in 1758, Röllig (along with the court Konzertmeister, Carl Hoeckh) assumed some of his duties, particularly in continuing to supply the court with cantatas. Following Hoeckh's death in 1773, Röllig was finally appointed Kapellmeister in 1774.