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Born February 22, 1749 • Germany
Died March 20, 1818 (aged 69) • Göttingen • Westphalia
Subjects Of Study music
Mattheson, detail of an engraving by J.J. Haid after a painting by J.S. Wahl
Johann Mattheson
German musician and writer
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François-Joseph Fétis
scholar and composer
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
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Friedrich Chrysander
German music historian and critic
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Curt Sachs
German musicologist
Peter Cornelius, engraving by Franz de Rohden, 1846
Peter Cornelius
German composer and author
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Moritz Hauptmann
German composer
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Alfred Einstein
German-American musicologist and critic
Praetorius, Michael
Michael Praetorius
German musician
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Robert Eitner
German musicologist
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Hugo Riemann
German musicologist
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Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
German composer
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Martin Agricola
German composer
Spitta, Philipp
Philipp Spitta
German musicologist
Ball, Hugo
Hugo Ball
German author and social critic
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Johannes Crüger
German composer and music theorist
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Sidney Colvin
English scholar
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author