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Concerto Del Signor Meck In C Major Lv 134 Ia. Adagio by Johann Gottfried Walther

Artist Biography For Johann Gottfried Walther

Johann Gottfried Walther 18 September 1684 – 23 March 1748 Was A German Music Theorist Organist Composer And Lexicographer Of The Baroque Era. Not Only Was His Life Almost Exactly Contemporaneous To That Of Johann Sebastian Bach He Was The Famous Composer's Cousin. Walther Was Most Famous As The Compiler Of The Musicalisches Lexicon Leipzig 1732 An Enormous Dictionary Of Music And Musicians. Not Only Was It The First Dictionary Of Musical Terms Written In The German Language It Was The First To Contain Both Terms And Biographical Information About Composers And Performers Up To The Early 18th Century. In All The Musicalisches Lexicon Defines More Than 3000 Musical Terms Walther Evidently Drew On More Than 250 Separate Sources In Compiling It Including Theoretical Treatises Of The Early Baroque And Renaissance. The Single Most Important Source For The Work Was The Writings Of Johann Mattheson Who Is Referenced More Than 200 Times.

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