Johann Adolph Scheibe was a German-Danish composer and significant critic and theorist of music. Though much of his theoretical work survives, most of his compositions are lost, though the extant ones
Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof was a German physician, historian, printer, mathematician, Baroque music composer, and precursor of the Enlightenment in Poland.
The portrait of Bach commissioned for his entry into Mizler's Sozietät der Musicalischen Wissenschaften
First page of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Nekrolog" as published in Mizler's Musikalische Bibliothek, volume IV, part 1 (1754)