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  Johann Pachelbel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johann Christoph Pachelbel [paˈxɛlbəl] (baptized September 1, 1653 – March 3, 1706) was an acclaimed Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the Southern German organ tradition to its peak.
In particular, Johann Jakob Froberger served as court organist in Vienna until 1657 and was succeeded by Alessandro Poglietti.
In June 1678, Pachelbel was employed as organist of the Lutheran Preacher's Church (Predigerkirche) in Erfurt, succeeding Johann Bach, the eldest son of Hans Bach.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johann_Pachelbel   (5106 words)

  
 Johann Sebastian Bach: a detailed informative biography
Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21st l685, the son of Johann Ambrosius, court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisenach and director of the musicians of the town of Eisenach in Thuringia.
Johann Sebastian and one of his brothers, Johann Jakob, were taken into the home of their eldest brother, Johann Christoph (born l671) who had recently married and settled down at Ohrdruf, a small town thirty miles south-east of Eisenach.
Johann Christoph was an excellent teacher - all of his five sons were to reach positions of some eminence in music, and he was a keen student of the latest keyboard compositions.
www.bayarea.net /~kins/AboutMe/Bach/JSB_bio_Arton/bqxjsbach.html   (8566 words)

  
 Johann Eck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johann Eck (November 13, 1486 – February 13, 1543) was a 16th century theologian and defender of Catholicism during the Protestant Reformation.
Johann Eck was born Johann Maier at Eck (later Egg, near Memmingen, 43 miles south of Augsburg) in Swabia, and derived his additional surname from his birthplace, which he himself, after 1505, always modified into Eckius or Eccius, i.e.
After taking his master's degree in 1501, he began the study of theology under Johann Jakob Lempp, and studied the elements of Hebrew and political economy with Konrad Summenhart.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johann_Eck   (2755 words)

  
 Johann Strauß   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Absolument fabuleux (2001) (waltz "An der schönen, blauen Donau") (as Johann Strauss)
Johann Strauss - Der König ohne Krone (1987)
Zigeunerbaron, Der (1975) (operette "Der Zigeunerbaron") (as Johann Strauss)
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 Lesson Tutor: Classical Composer Biography Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss II was initially a bank clerk, but soon followed the family tradition and in 1844 set up his own orchestra.
Johann Strauss II in Vienna, and Jaques Offenbach in Paris.
Johann Strauss deserved his nickname of 'The Waltz King' because his waltzes are indeed second to none in melody and charm.
www.lessontutor.com /bf_strauss.html   (1280 words)

  
 Johann Strauss, Jr. Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Johann was madly in love with her for the first 10 years and deeply devoted, although not faithful to her for the remaining 5 years.
Johann was unable to face life alone, and only seven weeks after Jetty's death, at the age of 52 Strauss married the actress and singer Angelika "Lili" Diettrich, 30 years his junior.
It was in the process of writing a ballet (Aschenbroedel) that he was taken ill with a respiratory ailment, developed pnumonia and died on June 3, 1899 at the age of 73 in the arms of his devoted wife, Adele.
www.straussfestival.com /bio.html   (1184 words)

  
 Inventor Johannes Gutenberg Biography
In 1440, German inventor Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing press process that, with refinements and increased mechanization, remained the principal means of printing until the late 20th century.
Johannes last name was derived from the house inhabited by his father and his paternal ancestors "zu Laden, zu Gutenberg".
Of Johannes Gutenberg's father, Friele Gänsfleisch, we know only that he was married in 1386 to Else Wyrich, daughter of a burgher of Mainz, Werner Wyrich zum steinern Krame (at the sign of the pottery shop), and that he died in 1419, his wife dying in 1433.
www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/gutenberg.htm   (2985 words)

  
 Johann Bernoulli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It was with great reluctance that Johann's father agreed in 1683 to Johann entering the University of Basel to study medicine.
Johann competed with his brother in what was becoming an interesting mathematical tussle but an unfortunately bitter personal battle.
Johann's original solution was less than satisfactory, but he returned to the problem later and produced an elegant solution which was to form a foundation for the calculus of variations.
www.stetson.edu /~efriedma/periodictable/html/Be.html   (488 words)

  
 HOASM: Bach's Pupils and his Legacy
Mention must also be made of Johann Christoph Friedrich, the "Bach of Bückburg," Johann Christian, the "London Bach," and two daughters, Johanna Caroline (1737-1781) and Regine Susanne (1742-1809).
Johann Martin Schubert (1690-1721), Bach's successor in Weimar in 1717, was also one of his first pupils, as was Johann Kaspar Vogler.
Also Johann Tobias Krebs, born in 1690 near Weimar; Johann Gottfried Ziegler, born at Dresden in 1688 and Bernhard Bach (1700-1743), the son of Johann Sebastian's eldest brother.
www.hoasm.org /XIE/XIEBachPupils.html   (408 words)

  
 December 27: Birth of Johann Arndt, Pietist precursor
While Johann was in school, studying medicine and the sciences, he became quite sick with a painful disease.
After Johann completed his education in the Lutheran universities of Germany (including Wittenberg) and the Reform universities of Switzerland, he accepted a pastorate at Badeborn, Anhalt in 1583.
Johann was concerned that theologians taught Christians to put too much emphasis on the legal achievement of Christ on the cross while neglecting the necessary heart change which alone could make a true Christian.
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2002/12/daily-12-27-2002.shtml   (621 words)

  
 Johann Pachelbel - Works   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Johann Kaspar Kerll also moved to Vienna in 1673, and though Pachelbel's music reflects various aspects of Kerll's technique, no evidence exists that Pachelbel was ever trained directly by Kerll.
In 1680, Johann Ambrosius Bach asked Pachelbel to be the godfather of his daughter, Johanna Juditha.
This left the family shattered, and Johann Sebastian was sent to live with a cousin; however, this cousin had financial difficulties and sent Johann Sebastian to live with his brother Johann Christoph in Ohrdruf who trained him using techniques taught to him by Pachelbel.
www.usd.edu /eric/music/pachelbel/biography.shtml   (1198 words)

  
 Johann A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Johann A. Krause, Inc. material number must be written on the wrapper, box or package and must be clearly visible.
Johann A. Krause, Inc expects 100% on-time and defect free delivery from its subcontractors and is continuously monitoring your performance.
Johann A. Krause, Inc. pattern and casting numbers must be identified on all pattern equipment.
www.jakrauseinc.com /supsite-A.htm   (7112 words)

  
 Johann Sebastian Bach: a detailed informative biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In the Spring of 1700 Johann Sebastian set out with his schoolfriend, Georg Erdmann, who was also joining the choir, on the journey of a hundred and eighty miles north to Lüneburg.
Böhm introduced Johann Sebastian to the great organ traditions of Hamburg, to which city he made several pilgrimages on foot.
When he was nearly eighteen, Johann Sebastian, considerably enriched by these musical experiences, decided he would try to find employment as an organist in his native Thuringia.
www.baroquemusic.org /bqxjsbach.html   (8769 words)

  
 Johann Sebastian Bach
Heinrich, of Arnstadt, had two sons, Johann Michael and Johann Christoph, who are among the greatest of J. Bach's forerunners, Johann Christoph being now supposed (although this is still disputed) to be the author of the splendid motet, Ich lasse dich nicht (" I wrestle and pray "), formerly ascribed to Sebastian Bach.
Another descendant of Veit Bach, Johann Ludwig, was admired more than any other ancestor by Sebastian, who copied twelve of his church cantatas and sometimes added work of his own to them.
Johann Sebastian Bach was baptized at Eisenach on the 23rd of March 1685.
www.mckeeth.org /wikilinks/bach1911.html   (3854 words)

  
 Johann George Stoltz - Branch IV
Johann George Stoltz - Branch IV Johann George Stoltz was born 17 February 1817 at Niederkutzenhausen, (Bas-Rhin) Alsace, France.
Johann George was the son of Johann Adam Stoltz and Maria Eva Jordi.
HENRY STOLTZ was born 16 December 1841 at Stoltz Prairie, Wabash County, Illinois, the son of George Johann and Margaret (Hinkle) Stoltz.
www.yournamehere.org /stoltz/branchiv505-739.htm   (16831 words)

  
 Johann Liss Online
Johann Liss at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. The Satyr and the Peasant
Johann Liss at the National Gallery, London, UK Judith in the Tent of Holofernes
All images and text on this Johann Liss page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/liss_johann.html   (247 words)

  
 Johann Peter Engels Jr
Susanna Hutzel (20 Nov 1742 - 9 Nov 1797) was the daughter of Johann Georg Hutzel and Magdalena Schweinhardt of Pfaffenhofen/wur, Germany.
The Male child is recorded simply as the son of Johann Peter and Susanna.
Because there is no Peter Engle in the 1820 census in Libertytown District and no further records of Mary it is believed that Mary and Johann Peter Jr died sometime after 1816 and before 1820 since Johann would have been 70 years of age by then.
www.engle-family.org /ancestors/johpeterjr.htm   (1577 words)

  
 Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788) lived and worked in Prussia, in the context of the late German Enlightenment.
Although he remained outside ‘professional’ philosophical circles, in that he never held a University post, he was respected in his time for his scholarship and breadth of learning.
Johann Georg Hamann was born in Königsberg in 1730, the son of a midwife and a barber-surgeon.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/hamann   (6741 words)

  
 Classical Net - Composers - Heinichen
Johann Kuhnau was in the words of Schering one of the last great cantors " in whom an element of medieval universality was evident, who mastered music, law, theology, oratory, poetry, mathematics and foreign languages." Heinichen and Graupner were the first students with musical talent to come to Kuhnau.
The court at Weissenfels was an active musical centre whose Kapellmeister Johann Phillip Kreiger (1649-1725) had studied in Italy and was regarded as one of the great composers of the period, particularly of opera and cantatas.
The solo violinist in the Sonata was presumably Johann Georg Pisendel as it is written in a most modern Italian style and in consequence unlikely to have been played by the concertmaster Volumier who was more inclined to the French style.
www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/acc/heinichen.html   (6234 words)

  
 Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte was an influential post-Kantian German philosopher whose teachings on philosophy and theology were discussed and admired by the New England Transcendentalist circle.
His Wissenschaftslehre (1795) presents the basis of his philosophy, which extends that of Immanuel Kant by emphasizing the role of the ich, or ego, where Kant spoke of the "thing-in-itself" and that of the nicht-ich, or non-ego, as the existential basis of the objective world.
This master was Johann Gottlieb Fichte, born at Rammenau, in Upper Lusatia, on the 19th of May, 1762.
www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Fichte.html   (3005 words)

  
 Biography of Johann Bernoulli
Also of importance were Johann's brother Nicolaus I, Nicolaus I's son Nicolaus II, Johann's sons Nicolaus III and Johann II, and his grandsons Johann III, Jacob II, and Daniel II.
However, Johann made the biggest name for himself, so we will focus on his life, and methods that resulted in his contributions to modern mathematics.
Well, Johann, never being one to admit he was wrong, set out in earnest to prove his brother wrong.
www.andrews.edu /~calkins/math/biograph/bioberno.htm   (629 words)

  
 Johann Gutenberg: The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center
Little is known about the life of Johann (or Johannes) Gutenberg, including his actual year of birth.
Even the most familiar engraved portraits of Gutenberg were made long after his death and are based on speculations about his appearance.
These are the basic facts about his life, based on a handful of legal and financial papers: he was born Johann Gensfleisch zum Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany and moved to Strasbourg sometime before 1434.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/html/3.html   (292 words)

  
 Johann Gutenberg
Evidence indicates that Gutenberg was born in Mainz, trained as a goldsmith, and entered a partnership in which he taught his friends his secret profession of printing in the 1430s.
Gutenberg's goal was to mechanically reproduce medieval liturgical manuscripts without losing their color or beauty of design.
Johann Fust - Fust or Faust, Johann, d.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0822203.html   (458 words)

  
 Johann Gottlieb Fichte
This situation, however, has fundamentally altered, and some of the most insightful and original current work on Fichte is being done in English.
Johann Gottlieb Fichtes nachgelassene Werke, 3 vols., ed.
Johann Gottlieb Fichtes sämmtliche Werke, 8 vols., ed.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/johann-fichte   (7398 words)

  
 JOHANN LUDWIG TIECK - LoveToKnow Article on JOHANN LUDWIG TIECK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
JOHANN LUDWIG TIECK - LoveToKnow Article on JOHANN LUDWIG TIECK
He spent most of his life as professor of anatomy and physiology at Heidelberg, a position to which he was appointed in 1816, after having filled the chair of anatomy and zoology for ten years at Laudshut, and died at Munich on the 22nd of January 1861.
To properly cite this JOHANN LUDWIG TIECK article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
77.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TI/TIECK_JOHANN_LUDWIG.htm   (829 words)

  
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rudolf Steiner was originally known as an interpreter of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
At the age of twenty-one, Steiner was asked to be the editor of Goethe's scientific writings for a new collection of Goethe's complete works.
The Goethe Society of North America was founded in December 1979 in San Francisco as a non-profit organization dedicated to the encouragement of research on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) and his age.
www.erraticimpact.com /~19thcentury/html/goethe.htm   (638 words)

  
 Johann Strauss Jr.
JOHANN STRAUSS II Johann Strauss Sr., the most popular and successful conductor and composer of dance music of his time, discouraged his son's musical ambitions.
The Marco Polo Record people have, in cooperation with Professor Franz Mailer of the Strauss Society of Vienna, recorded practically all of the Strauss compositions, and for most of Strauss' compositions, the Marco Polo's are the only recordings which are available.
In this painting of a musical evening at the Strauss house, Johannes Brahms is second from the left.
www.bobjanuary.com /johann2.htm   (3816 words)

  
 Johann Zoffany Online
Johann Zoffany at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. The Lavie Children, ca.1770
Johann Zoffany at the National Gallery, London, UK Mrs Oswald
All images and text on this Johann Zoffany page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/zoffany_johann.html   (289 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Johann Eck
His family name was Maier, and his father, Michael Maier, was for many years magistrate in the town, the latinized name of which, Eckius or Eccius, was adopted after 1505 by Johann.
His uncle, Martin Maier, pastor at Rothenburg on the Neckar, received Johann in his house (1495) and educated him.
In 1498, when twelve years old, he was admitted to the Heidelberg University; thence he went in 1499 to Tübingen where he received the degree of Master of Arts in 1501; then to Cologne and in 1502 to Freiburg in the Breisgau.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05271b.htm   (1612 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Johann Tetzel
It was simply a permit to select a proper confessor, who only after a contrite confession would absolve from sin and reserved cases, and who possessed at the same time facilities to impart the plenary indulgence (Paulus, "Johann Tetzel", 103).
As much cannot be said about his teaching regarding indulgences for the dead.
des deutchen Volkes, II (Freiburg, 1897), 81-83; GRISAR, Luther, I (Freiburg, 1911), 276-88; PUALUS, Johann Tetzel der Ablassprediger (Mainz, 1899); the last-named for thoroughness of research and objective character supercedes all that has ever been written on Tetzel, on both the Catholic and Protestant sides.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14539a.htm   (1618 words)

  
 Johann Gottlieb Fichte [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Johann Gottlieb Fichte is one of the major figures in German philosophy in the period between Kant and Hegel.
In The Popular Works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 2 vols., trans.
"Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Foundations of the Entire Science of Knowledge." In Central Works of Philosophy (Volume 3: The Nineteenth Century), ed.
www.utm.edu /research/iep/f/fichtejg.htm   (4348 words)

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