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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    his detractors, such as Johann Adolf Scheibe, suggesting he write less complex music, and his supporters, such as Johann Mattheson and Lorenz Christoph Mizler...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Samuel Scheidt, Heinrich Schütz, Johann Pachelbel, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Gottfried Walther and Johann Mattheson. Lundberg 2012 p. 7-17 Lundberg 2012...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    serenade include Alessandro Stradella, Alessandro Scarlatti, Johann Joseph Fux, Johann Mattheson, and Antonio Caldara. Often these were large-scale works...
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  • a St John Passion were set by composers Christian Ritter, Johann Mattheson and Johann Sebastian Bach in their respective St John Passion. Postel was born...
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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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    Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (born 1962) Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861) Johann Mattheson (1681–1764) Emilie Mayer (1812–1883) Simon Mayr (1763–1845) Rupert...
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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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    and which turns out to be identical with the system described by Johann Mattheson. Euler later envisaged the possibility of describing genres including...
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    of the Winepress and the Son of Man exalted by the Earth, 1721) of Johann Mattheson and the "Keltertreter" St Luke Passion of Homilius. The first verse...
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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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  • Johann Tobias Krebs Johann Krieger Johann Kuhnau Georg Dietrich Leyding Vincent Lübeck Johann Mattheson Franz Xaver Murschhauser Johann Pachelbel Jacob Praetorius...
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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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    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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