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Born February 22, 1749 • Germany
Died March 20, 1818 (aged 69) • Göttingen • Westphalia • (Anniversary in 6 days)
Subjects Of Study music
Mattheson, detail of an engraving by J.J. Haid after a painting by J.S. Wahl
Johann Mattheson
German musician and writer
François-Joseph Fétis
Belgian music scholar
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Friedrich Chrysander
German music historian and critic
Curt Sachs
German musicologist
Moritz Hauptmann
German composer
Alfred Einstein
German-American musicologist and critic
Praetorius, Michael
Michael Praetorius
German musician
Robert Eitner
German musicologist
Hugo Riemann
German musicologist
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
German composer
Agricola, Martin: Musica instrumentalis deudsch
Martin Agricola
German composer
Spitta, Philipp
Philipp Spitta
German musicologist
Ball, Hugo
Hugo Ball
German author and social critic
Johannes Crüger
German composer and music theorist
Sidney Colvin
English scholar
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer