Notable Former Teachers
- Johann Sebastian Bach - prolific German Baroque composer and organist
- Karl Ferdinand Braun - German inventor, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Sethus Calvisius - German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer and teacher of the late Renaissance
- Otto Crusius - German classical scholar
- Johann August Ernesti - German theologian and philologist
- Georg Fabricius - German poet, historian and archaeologist
- Johann Matthias Gesner - German classical scholar and schoolmaster, an ardent enthusiast of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Moritz Hauptmann - German composer and writer, 6th Cantor (church) of the Thomanerchor after Bach
- Sebastian Knüpfer - German Baroque composer, 3rd Thomaskantor before Bach
- Johann Kuhnau - German Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist, immediate predecessor as Thomaskantor before Bach
- August Leskien - German linguist
- Johann Adam Hiller - German Classical and Romantic composer, conductor and writer on music, 3rd Thomaskantor after Bach, first Kapellmeister of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig
- Rudolf Hildebrand - Germanist
- Johann Rosenmüller - German Baroque composer
- Günther Ramin - influential German organist, conductor, composer, pedagogue, and 12th Thomaskantor after Bach
- Georg Rhau - German publisher and composer, first Thomaskantor after church became Protestant, led the Thomanerchor in the opening Mass of the Leipzig Debate, published last known Lutheran Hymnbook during Martin Luther's lifetime
- Ernst Richter - German musical theorist, 8th Thomaskantor after Bach and the immediate predecessor to the post of Wilhelm Rust
- Wilhelm Rust - German musicologist, conductor, and composer, 9th Thomaskantor after Bach
- Johann Schein - German composer and hymnist of the early Baroque era
- Johann Gottfried Schicht - German composer and conductor, 5th Thomaskantor after Bach
- Karl Straube - German church musician, organist, choral conductor, and teacher, 11th Thomaskantor after Bach, a friend and champion of Max Reger, instructor at the Leipzig Conservatory, and one of the teachers of Karl Richter (conductor); succeeded to the post of Thomaskantor by Günther Ramin
- Jakob Thomasius - German academic philosopher and jurist
- Christian Theodor Weinlig - German music teacher, composer and choir conductor
- Ernst Windisch - German scholar and celticist
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