Johann Nikolaus Forkel
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Johann Nikolaus Forkel was a German musicologist and music theorist, generally regarded as among the founders of modern musicology. His publications include the two-volume Allgemeine Geschichte der Mu
Forkel in a 1813 engraving by Carl Traugott Riedel
Georg Joseph Vogler
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Georg Joseph Vogler, also known as Abbé Vogler, was a German composer, organist, teacher and theorist. In a long and colorful career extending over many more nations and decades than was usual at the
Johann Nikolaus Forkel
…compositions, which are numerous, little interest is to be attached today. However, he wrote variations on "God Save the King" for the clavichord, and that Georg Joseph Vogler wrote a sharp criticism on them, which appeared at Frankfurt in 1793 together with a set of variations as he conceived they ought to be written. This…
Abbe Vogler
Orchestrion built by M. Welte (1895)
Georg Joseph Vogler