Johann Mattheson (28 September 1681 – 17 April 1764) was a German composer, critic, lexicographer and music theorist. His writings on the late Baroque...

Gregorian calendar date is 11 September. See also Johann Mattheson's Pulpit Obituary of 1740, where Mattheson specifically addresses this claim and gives reasons...

Hanff taught harpsichord and composition to the young Johann Mattheson for four years. Mattheson was to become a composer, music theorist and close friend...

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...

the courante commonly used in the baroque period was described by Johann Mattheson in Der vollkommene Capellmeister (Hamburg, 1739) as "chiefly characterized...

the Doctrine of the Affections was Johann Mattheson. The following table cites instructions from Johann Mattheson on how to express affects. Harnoncourt...

his detractors, such as Johann Adolf Scheibe, suggesting he write less complex music, and his supporters, such as Johann Mattheson and Lorenz Christoph Mizler...

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...

orchestra of the Hamburg Oper am Gänsemarkt. There he met the composers Johann Mattheson, Christoph Graupner and Reinhard Keiser. Handel's first two operas...

also defended in Johann Gottfried Walther's Musicalisches Lexicon (1732) favoring the theorist over the performer. Johann Mattheson's Der brauchbare Virtuoso...

his contrapuntal skill, evident in the extant fugues and ricercars. Johann Mattheson was particularly impressed with Krieger's double fugues, remarking...

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...

Cleopatra (Rossi), an 1876 opera by Lauro Rossi Cleopatra, an opera by Johann Mattheson Cleopatra, a composition by Luigi Mancinelli Cleopatra, a symphonic...

naturalist and professor of medicine Johann Martin Schleyer (1831–1912), German Catholic priest Johann Mattheson (1681–1764), German composer, a close...

Baroque masters such as George Frideric Handel, Johann Mattheson, Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1673 he reorganized a series of...

Johann Krieger. The Krieger brothers came from a Nuremberg family of rugmakers. According to Johann Mattheson's Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte, Johann Philipp...

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...

serenade include Alessandro Stradella, Alessandro Scarlatti, Johann Joseph Fux, Johann Mattheson, and Antonio Caldara. Often these were large-scale works...

the influences of Reinhard Keiser, the theatre's music director, and Johann Mattheson, its leading vocalist. The Gänsemarkt was largely dedicated to Keiser's...

church crypt, there are 2,425 people interred, including the composers Johann Mattheson and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The grave chambers were deeply excavated...

and which turns out to be identical with the system described by Johann Mattheson. Euler later envisaged the possibility of describing genres including...

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...

influenced the following generation of composers, such as Reinhard Keiser, Johann Mattheson, Georg Philipp Telemann, Christoph Graupner, Georg Caspar Schürmann...

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...

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...

Thomaskantor by Johann Sebastian Bach. Much of the biographical information on Kuhnau is known from an autobiography published by Johann Mattheson in 1740 in...

Emanuel Bach called the vibrato "Bebung", however other composers like Johann Mattheson had described the term earlier on. C.P.E Bach often used Bebung in...

kettledrum-beating angels, eagles, stars of orders, suns and others. Johann Mattheson commented positively on Röder's organ in Breslau: "All emperors, kings...

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...

Frideric Handel (1716), Johann Mattheson (1718), Johann Friedrich Fasch (1723), Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1725), and Johann Caspar Bachofen (1759),...