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    Johann Mattheson (28 September 1681 – 17 April 1764) was a German composer, critic, lexicographer and music theorist. His writings on the late Baroque...
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  • Hanff taught harpsichord and composition to the young Johann Mattheson for four years. Mattheson was to become a composer, music theorist and close friend...
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  • Gregorian calendar date is 11 September. See also Johann Mattheson's Pulpit Obituary of 1740, where Mattheson specifically addresses this claim and gives reasons...
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  • the courante commonly used in the baroque period was described by Johann Mattheson in Der vollkommene Capellmeister (Hamburg, 1739) as "chiefly characterized...
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  • Galant music (category Johann Mattheson)
    fashion, who was elegant, cultured and virtuous. The German theorist Johann Mattheson appears to have been fond of the term. It features in the title of...
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  • remembered for a dispute with Johann Mattheson. Buttstett was born in Bindersleben (now part of Erfurt) into the family of Johann Henricus Buttstett, a well-educated...
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    widespread claims about Reincken's exceptional longevity stem from Johann Mattheson, who, writing in 1722, gave his date of birth as 27 April 1623. However...
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  • Doctrine of the affections (category Johann Mattheson)
    the Doctrine of the Affections was Johann Mattheson. The following table cites instructions from Johann Mattheson on how to express affects. Harnoncourt...
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  • also defended in Johann Gottfried Walther's Musicalisches Lexicon (1732) favoring the theorist over the performer. Johann Mattheson's Der brauchbare Virtuoso...
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    the contemporary press (Johann Adolf Scheibe suggested he write less complex music) and supporters, such as Johann Mattheson and Lorenz Christoph Mizler...
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  • his contrapuntal skill, evident in the extant fugues and ricercars. Johann Mattheson was particularly impressed with Krieger's double fugues, remarking...
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    Keiser (1712), Georg Philipp Telemann (1716), Johann Mattheson (1718), Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1725), Johann Friedrich Fasch (1723) and several other composers...
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  • naturalist and professor of medicine Johann Martin Schleyer (1831–1912), German Catholic priest Johann Mattheson (1681–1764), German composer, a close...
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    orchestra of the Hamburg Oper am Gänsemarkt. There he met the composers Johann Mattheson, Christoph Graupner and Reinhard Keiser. Handel's first two operas...
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  • Cleopatra (Rossi), an 1876 opera by Lauro Rossi Cleopatra, an opera by Johann Mattheson Cleopatra, a composition by Luigi Mancinelli Cleopatra, a symphonic...
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    Johann Krieger. The Krieger brothers came from a Nuremberg family of rugmakers. According to Johann Mattheson's Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte, Johann Philipp...
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    serenade include Alessandro Stradella, Alessandro Scarlatti, Johann Joseph Fux, Johann Mattheson, and Antonio Caldara. Often these were large-scale works...
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  • The single most important source for the work was the writings of Johann Mattheson, who is referenced more than 200 times. Some further information on...
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    the major key, which did not reflect the actual proximity of keys. Johann Mattheson (1735) and others attempted to improve this—David Kellner (1737) proposed...
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    Baroque masters such as George Frideric Handel, Johann Mattheson, Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1673 he reorganized a series of...
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    church crypt, there are 2,425 people interred, including the composers Johann Mattheson and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The grave chambers were deeply excavated...
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    Griesinger and Dies, in the 1750s Haydn studied an encyclopedic treatise by Johann Mattheson, a German composer. As his skills increased, Haydn began to acquire...
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  • contrasting episodes and a free form, just like a classical fantasia. Johann Mattheson, who was a German composer and theorist in the 17th century, presented...
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  • is often required for the viola. He also wrote instrumental works. Johann Mattheson writes that Fischer's music was highly praised and frequently played...
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  • Wilhelm Marpurg – Historisch-Kritische Beyträge zur Aufnahme der Musik Johann Mattheson – Plus Ultra Jean-Philippe Rameau – Observations sur notre instinct...
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    Frideric Handel (1716), Johann Mattheson (1718), Johann Friedrich Fasch (1723), Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1725), and Johann Caspar Bachofen (1759),...
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    Thomaskantor by Johann Sebastian Bach. Much of the biographical information on Kuhnau is known from an autobiography published by Johann Mattheson in 1740 in...
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    Bach Guild BG-682) and its respective 5th track. Mattheson, Johann (April 1958). "Johann Mattheson on Affect and Rhetoric in Music (I)". Journal of Music...
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    1710 baroque opera based on the reign of Boris by German composer Johann Mattheson was rediscovered in Armenia and returned to Hamburg, Germany. This...
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  • Antonio Vivaldi – La Silvia, RV 734 Johann Adolph Hasse – Antioco Alexander Malcolm – A Treatise of Musick Johann Mattheson – Das forschende Orchestre Franz...
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