Composer
Johann Mattheson
German composer and theorist (1681-1764)
1681–1764
33 works and musical collections
- Born
- 1681
- Died
- 1764
- Birthplace
- Hamburg
- Place of death
- Hamburg
- Citizenship / historical state
- Germany
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Baroque
Biography
Johann Mattheson (28 September 1681 – 17 April 1764) was a German composer, critic, lexicographer and music theorist. His writings on the late Baroque and early Classical period were highly influential, specifically, "his biographical and theoretical works were widely disseminated and served as the source for all subsequent lexicographers and historians".
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Life and musical career
- Selected occupations
- composer; lexicographer; linguist; organist; diplomat; musicologist; music theorist; writer; opera singer; independent publisher; music director; conductor
- Teachers
- Johann Nikolaus Hanff; Johann Theile
- Instruments played
- pipe organ
- Genres
- opera
- Movements
- Baroque music
- Pseudonym
- Aristoxenus
- Languages used
- German
- VIAF ID
- 24790492
- ISNI
- 0000000108802321
- GND ID
- 118578995
- Library of Congress ID
- n50006539
- MusicBrainz ID
- 895a9155-5b85-43aa-b4e7-67d9b0989c39
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- harpsichord, Flute, Piano, Organ, Clarinet
- Genres represented
- Classical
- Source entries with composition dates
- 12
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Sheet music catalogue
Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.
| Title | Work details | Listed instruments | Sheet music |
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| Menuett | See work details |
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| Gigue |
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| Minuet | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| 18. Sonata | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Suite No.1 in D minor |
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| Sarabande | See work details |
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| Suite No.5 for Harpsichord |
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| Menuetto for cello and piano | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| suite 2 A-Dur | See work details |
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| Suite quatrième pour le clavecin |
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| Der brauchbare Virtuoso | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| suite 6 Es-Dur |
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| suite 7 B-Dur |
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| suite 11 C-Dur |
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| Harpsichord Pieces in Two Volumes, vol. 1, suite 5: Air | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Harpsichord Pieces in Two Volumes, vol. 2, suite 10: Gigue | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Suite No. 4 | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Saraband mit drei Variationen, Suite 12 | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Harpsichord Pieces in Two Volumes, vol. 1, suite 1: Gigue | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Allemand, Courante et Gigue, Suite 2 | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Exemplarische Organisten-Probe | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| suite 3 D-Dur |
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| suite 8 d-moll |
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| suite 9 g-moll |
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| suite 10 e-moll |
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| suite 12 f-moll |
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| Menuett - Score | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Work & excerpts Sonata Iii | See work details | Check individual editions | View sheet music |
| Fantasie And Menuett | See work details |
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| 1. Courante | See work details |
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| Air Adagio | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Gavotte | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Fanfare | See work details |
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Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 24790492. Portrait: Johann Jakob Haid / After Johann Salomon Wahl, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.