Jakob Adlung

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Jakob Adlung, or Adelung, (14 January 1699 – 5 July 1762)[1] was a German organist, teacher, instrument maker, music historian, composer and music theorist.

Biography

He was born in

Johann Heinrich Buttstedt as organist of the Prediger church after the former's death, a post he retained for the rest of his life. He was also professor of languages at the Erfurt Gymnasium and taught, by his own estimate, 218 organ students and 284 language students between 1728 and 1762. He was also a maker of keyboard instruments, and completed sixteen of the same. He married Elisabeth Ritter in 1732, who was the daughter of the mayor of Gross-Wanzleben, near Magdeburg
.

Work

He is one of a group of excellent scholar-musicians of the mid-18th century, along with

performance practice
.

Anleitung zu der musikalischen Gelahrtheit records and collates all knowledge he could find about music history, mathematics in relation to music,

Equal Temperament in Germany at the end of the 17th century.[2][3]

Organ works

- Ermuntre dich, mein schwacher Geist - Christus, der ist mein Lebe - Herr Christ, der einig Gottessohn - Trio in a-minor

Writings

His

Musica mechanica organoedi
.

References

  1. ISBN 0-674-37299-9
    .
  2. ^ Anleitung zu der musikalischen Gelahrtheit (1758) p. 284
  3. ^ Kroesbergen, Willem; Cruickshank, Andrew J. "18th Century Quotes on J.S. Bach's Temperament". Retrieved 9 November 2014.

Sources

External links

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