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Also Known As Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann
Born July 18, 1849 • Germany
Died July 10, 1919 (aged 69) • Leipzig • Germany
Subjects Of Study harmony • music
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German composer
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Curt Sachs
German musicologist
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Robert Eitner
German musicologist
Mattheson, detail of an engraving by J.J. Haid after a painting by J.S. Wahl
Johann Mattheson
German musician and writer
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer
Zarlino, Gioseffo
Gioseffo Zarlino
Italian composer
Giuseppe Tartini
Giuseppe Tartini
Italian musician
Sir George Grove
Sir George Grove
British writer
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Johannes Tinctoris
Belgian composer
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
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Johann Gottfried Walther
German composer
Peter Cornelius, engraving by Franz de Rohden, 1846
Peter Cornelius
German composer and author
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Alfred Einstein
German-American musicologist and critic
Praetorius, Michael
Michael Praetorius
German musician
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Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
German composer
Agricola, Martin: Musica instrumentalis deudsch
Martin Agricola
German composer
Spitta, Philipp
Philipp Spitta
German musicologist
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Johannes Crüger
German composer and music theorist
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Johann Nikolaus Forkel
German musicologist and writer