Michael Praetorius: Quick Facts


Facts

Also Known As Michael Schultheiss
Born February 15, 1571? • Poland
Died February 15, 1621 • Germany
Notable Works “Musae Sioniae” • “Syntagma musicum”
Subjects Of Study music theory • musical instrument

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Johannes CrĂźger
German composer and music theorist
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
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Johann Hermann Schein
German composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
BĂŠla BartĂłk
BĂŠla BartĂłk
Hungarian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
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Constant Lambert
British composer
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Egon Wellesz
Austrian composer and musicologist
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Heinrich SchĂźtz
Heinrich SchĂźtz
German composer
Hans Werner Henze.
Hans Werner Henze
German composer
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Curt Sachs
German musicologist
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Johann Gottfried Walther
German composer
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Theobald Boehm
German musician and composer
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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Samuel Scheidt
German composer
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Boris Blacher
German composer
Mattheson, detail of an engraving by J.J. Haid after a painting by J.S. Wahl
Johann Mattheson
German musician and writer