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HILLER, JOHANN ADAM (1728–1804)

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HILLER, JOHANN See also:ADAM (1728–1804) , See also:German musical composer, was See also:born at Wendisch-Ossig near See also:Gorlitz in See also:Silesia on the 25th of See also:December 1728. By the See also:death of his See also:father in 1734 he was See also:left dependent to a large extent on the charity of See also:friends. Entering in 1747 the Kreuzschule in See also:Dresden, the school attended many years afterwards by See also:Richard See also:Wagner, he subsequently went to the university of See also:Leipzig, where he studied See also:jurisprudence, supporting himself by giving See also:music lessons, and also by per-forming at concerts both on the See also:flute and as a vocalist. Gradually he adopted music as his See also:sole profession, and devoted himself more especially to the permanent See also:establishment of a See also:concert See also:institute at Leipzig. It was he who in 1781 originated the celebrated Gewandhaus concerts which still flourish at Leipzig. In 1789 he became ".cantor " of the See also:Thomas school there, a position previously held by See also:John See also:Sebastian See also:Bach. He died in Leipzig on the 16th of See also:June 1804. Two of his pupils placed a See also:monument to his memory in front of the Thomas school. Hiller's compositions comprise almost every See also:kind of See also:church music, from the See also:cantata to the See also:simple See also:chorale. But much more important are his operettas; 14 in number, which for a See also:long See also:time retained their See also:place on the boards, and had considerable See also:influence on the development of See also:light dramatic music in See also:Germany. The See also:Jolly Cobbler, Love in the See also:Country and the See also:Village See also:Barber were amongst the most popular of his See also:works. Hiller also excelled in sentimental songs and See also:ballads.

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great simplicity of structure his music combines a consider-able amount,of genuine melodic invention. Although an admirer and imitator of the See also:Italian school, Hiller fully appreciated the greatness of See also:Handel, and did much for the appreciation of his music in Germany. It was under his direction that the See also:Messiah was for the first time given at See also:Berlin, more than See also:forty years after the See also:composition of that great See also:work. Hiller, was also a writer on music, and for some years (1766–177o) edited a musical weekly periodical named Wochentliche Nachrichten and Anmerkungen See also:die Alusik betreftend.

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