Johann Gottfried Walther
Birth Year: | 1684 |
Death Year: | 1748 |
Notes: | 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 well known as the compiler of the Musicalisches Lexicon (Leipzig, 1732), an enormous dictionary of music and musicians. |
Compositions:
Title | Alternate Title(s) |
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Joseph Lieben, Joseph Mein |