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FORKEL, JOHANN NIKOLAUS (1749-1818)

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FORKEL, JOHANN NIKOLAUS (1749-1818) , See also:German musician, was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:February 1949 at Meeder in See also:Coburg. He was the son of a cobbler, and as a See also:practical musician, especially as a See also:pianoforte player, achieved some See also:eminence; but his claims to a more abiding name See also:rest chiefly upon his See also:literary skill and deep See also:research as an historian of musical See also:science and literature. He was an enthusiastic admirer of J. S. See also:Bach, whose See also:music he did much to popularize. His library, which was accumulated with care and discrimination at a timewhen rare books were cheap, forms a valuable portion of the royal library in See also:Berlin and also of the library of the Koniglicher Institut See also:fur Kirchenmusik. He was organist to the university See also:church of See also:Gottingen, obtained the degree of See also:doctor of See also:philosophy, and in 1778 became musical director of the university. He died at Gottingen on the 20th of See also:March 1818. The following is a See also:list of his See also:principal See also:works: Uber See also:die Theorie der Musik (Gottingen, 1777); Musikalisch kritische Bibliothek (See also:Gotha, 1778); Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik (See also:Leipzig, 1788). The last is his most important See also:work. He also wrote a See also:Dictionary of Musical Literature, which is full of valuable material. To his musical compositions, which are numerous, little See also:interest is to-See also:day to be attached.

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