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Born October 22, 1832 • Prussia
Died February 2, 1905 (aged 72) • Germany
Notable Works “Quellen-Lexikon”
Oscar Sonneck
American musicologist, librarian, and editor
Sir George Grove
Sir George Grove
British writer
Curt Sachs
German musicologist
Hugo Riemann
German musicologist
Mattheson, detail of an engraving by J.J. Haid after a painting by J.S. Wahl
Johann Mattheson
German musician and writer
Spitta, Philipp
Philipp Spitta
German musicologist
Peter Warlock
British composer
Johannes Tinctoris
Belgian composer
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Felix Klein
German mathematician
Johann Gottfried Walther
German composer
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Moritz Hauptmann
German composer
Alfred Einstein
German-American musicologist and critic
Freiherr von Grimm, engraving after a drawing by Carmontelle, 1769
Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm
German literary critic
Praetorius, Michael
Michael Praetorius
German musician
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
German composer
Agricola, Martin: Musica instrumentalis deudsch
Martin Agricola
German composer