Johann Gottlieb Görner (16 April 1697 – 15 February 1778[1]) was a German composer and organist.
Görner was born in Penig, Saxony. His brother was the composer Johann Valentin Görner and his son the organist Karl Friedrich Görner. He was a student at the Thomasschule zu Leipzig and University of Leipzig, then organist of the city's Paulinerkirche from 1716 (whose music director he became in 1723) then its Nikolaikirche from 1721.[2] [3] In 1723 he founded a Collegium Musicum, which competed with Johann Sebastian Bach's. He died in Leipzig.