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	Johann Mattheson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johann Mattheson (September 28, 1681 – April 17, 1764) was a German composer, writer, lexicographer, and music theorist.
		He was a close friend of George Frideric Handel, although he nearly killed him in a sudden quarrel, during a performance of Mattheson's opera Cleopatra in 1704—Handel was saved only by a large button which turned aside Mattheson's sword.
		Mattheson is mainly famous as a music theorist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johann_Mattheson (239 words)

	HOASM: Johann Mattheson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1704 Mattheson became the tutor of Cyrill Wich, son of the British envoy to Hamburg, Sir John Wich.
		Sir John appointed Mattheson his personal secretary in 1706, a position of considerable status and salary that he held for most of his life, serving Cyrill when he succeeded his father in 1715.
		Mattheson was a prolific composer up to the 1730s, especially of sacred music and opera, but much of his music has been missing since World War II.
	www.hoasm.org /XID/Mattheson.html (423 words)

	Johann Mattheson
		Mattheson bemoaned the fact that music could not be studied as an independent science at the universities, and expressed a desire to establish an endowment for a professional chair in music at Leipzig.
		In Hamburg, Mattheson found himself at odds with a less progressively minded Stadtkantor, but he managed to find a refuge for his views at the cathedral, because this was an imperial institution and therefore outside the jurisdiction of the Stadtkantor.
		Here Mattheson was able to adopt all the latest developments in musical style, and also to employ singers from the opera, pioneering the use of women in church music.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Topics/Mattheson.htm (1516 words)

	2005 Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As the son of a tax collector, Mattheson benefited from family wealth and ambition: as a child he was instructed in foreign languages, fencing, riding, dancing and drawing as well as on musical instruments (organ, viol, violin, flute, oboe and lute); later he studied law and education at the Johanneum.
		That Mattheson took the leading role in Händel's "Almira" in 1705 is evidence that, having spent their passions, they were able to repair their friendship.
		Far from abandoning his career in music, Mattheson took on additional responsibilities as music director of the cathedral (1715-28) and as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Holstein (1719), all the while remaining in the service of Sir John.
	www.bemf.org /05/mattheson.htm (1045 words)

	Johann Gottfried Walther - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johann Gottfried Walther (September 18, 1684 – March 23, 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era.
		Not only was his life almost exactly contemporaneous to that of Johann Sebastian Bach, he was the famous composer's cousin.
		The single most important source for the work was the writings of Johann Mattheson, who is referenced more than 200 times.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Walther (319 words)

	NewOlde.com - Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mattheson's Cleopatra (1704), the opera that gave rise to the duel, will be performed in Hamburg in October 2006 at the Bucerius Kunst Forum.
		Mattheson turns the final two chorales into a minuet with obligato glockenspiel, interrupted by one of the most heroic arias in the passion.
		Johann Mattheson, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Ludwig Krebs.
	www.newolde.com /mattheson.htm (564 words)

	Moving Body and Soul: The Aesthetic Theory of Music of Johann Mattheson - CSB \| SJU - Friday Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mattheson lived at a time when instrumental music was becoming increasingly important.
		The theory has three bases: rhetoric, science and morality—for Mattheson and his contemporaries these were inextricably linked—and it sweepingly encompasses the purpose, perception, cognition, and effects of music.
		Examination of his aesthetic theory of music reveals Mattheson to have been a man struggling to reconcile deeply ingrained traditional ideas with progressive trends in musical practice while staying true to the philosophy of the Enlightenment.
	www.csbsju.edu /FridayForum/Past/Fall2003/Fall2003_Campbell.htm (242 words)

	Johann Mattheson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Johann Mattheson (September 28, 1681 – April 17, 1764) was a (A person of German nationality) German (Someone who composes music as a profession) composer, writer, (A compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language) lexicographer, and (Click link for more info and facts about music theorist) music theorist.
		He was born and died in (A city in northern Germany on the Elbe River) Hamburg.
		He was the most thorough writer on performance practice, theatrical style, and harmony of the German (Elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century) Baroque.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/johann_mattheson.htm (306 words)

	Page 4 - Program Notes for Handel's Muse - The Forces of Virtue
		Mattheson also recounted teaching Handel, who knew nothing of opera before his arrival, 'how to compose in the dramatic style.' If this is true, then Johann Mattheson might well be considered the greatest music teacher in history.
		While Mattheson's story told in his later years might be heavily embellished, we leave you with the opera that gave birth to the tale.
		Johann Mattheson was one of Handel's many muses but perhaps he was also the young composer's guardian angel.
	www.probonomusic.net /HandelsMuse4.htm (500 words)

	A Poet's Description of the Lute Playing of Silvius Leopold Weiss, and a Possible Link Between Weiss and David Kellner
		By 1704, she was acclaimed as both a singer and composer, and in 1708, Johann Valentin Meder reported to Mattheson that Regina participated in performances in Riga of cantatas by Keiser and Bromer.
		Mattheson was obviously impressed by the singer; in his Exemplarische Organisten-Probe of 1719, Regina is cited as exemplary in the art of singing to one's own accompaniment.
		Mattheson refers to her in the form of a pun, "Ob die Person blond oder Schwarz sey, mag einer erraten" ("Whether the person were white or Schwarz, one can guess"), which suggests that she was quite well known.
	www.tabulatura.com /WEISS2.htm (1485 words)

	Rovisoft - Arts Music Composition Composers M Mattheson, Johann - Free Directory Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Johann Mattheson - Biography tracing his musical and political careers with information on related people and his historical period from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
		Johann Mattheson - Article detailing his life, especially his rationalist theories and resistance to them by the north German musical establishment.
		Mattheson, Johann - Biography noting political and musical careers, showing youthful virtuosity, sustained excellence, and works both sacred and secular from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
	www.rovisoft.com /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/M/Mattheson,_Johann (505 words)

	Johann Mattheson -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Mattheson befriended George Frideric Handel while serving as a singer and conductor at the Hamburg Opera.
		The dreaded critic Johann Mattheson wrote of him that “Corelli and Lully may be justly honoured but Telemann is above all praise.” Through his public concerts Telemann introduced to the general public music previously reserved for the court, the aristocracy, or a...
		One of the great organ masters of the generation before Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Pachelbel strongly influenced the development of the chorale, or traditional Protestant hymn tune, and popularized performances of music composed solely for the organ.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051444 (671 words)

	Mattheson, Johann: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A composer at nine and soprano in the Hamburg opera at fifteen, Mattheson was known as a person of great talent and intellect.
		Unable to perform he wrote 88 books before his death, among them Das Beschützte Orchestra (Hamburg, 1717) where, in the earliest printed reference to Bach, Mattheson wrote: "I have seen things by the famous organist of Weimar, Herr Joh.
		Sebastian Bach, both for the church and for the hand that are certainly such as must make one esteem the man highly." Mattheson's most important book was Der vollkommene Capellmeister (1739).
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/mattheson.html (133 words)

	Johann Mattheson: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		At an early age Mattheson was performing various roles, even female roles until his voice changed, in the Hamburg Opera.
		When playing the organ Mattheson was a virtuoso performer and was well traveled.
		Mattheson was also a musicographer writing on every aspect of music including his own experiences, areas of proficiency, encyclopedic information for directors, and progressive approches to musical instruction.
	music.com /person/johann_mattheson/1 (271 words)

	Johann Mattheson
		According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Johann Mattheson was a German organist, harpsichordist, singer, and composer of operas, church cantatas, keyboard music, etc.; also noted writer on music.
		Mattheson also has a Largo published in Spielstücke für Blockflöte und Gittarre.
		Johann Mattheson 1681-1764, brief biography by Timothy A. Smith
	www.grainger.de /music/composers/matthjo.html (91 words)

	Johann Mattheson: The Harmonious Language of the Fingers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Johann Mattheson: The Harmonious Language of the Fingers
		Die wol klingende Fingersprache is Johann Mattheson’s contribution to keyboard music and theory and consists primarily of fugues interspersed with contrasting pieces.
		Mattheson, a friend of Handel and a singer of leading roles in Handel’s operas presented in Hamburg, seems to have shared much with Handel; in fact, Handel copied parts of operas composed by Mattheson's into his own.
	www.ohscatalog.com /johmatharlan.html (90 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.
		J G Buelow plausibly suggests that whilst no documentation survives to suggest that Heinichen and Mattheson were personal friends, the familiar tone of Heinichen's references to Mattheson suggests more than a professional contact.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/acc/heinichen.html (6234 words)

	Arts - Music - Composition - Composers - M - Mattheson, Johann - Newsletter - News - Reviews - Education - Ratings
		Mattheson, Johann: Biography A composer at nine and soprano in the Hamburg opera at fifteen, Mattheson was known as a person of great talent and intellect.
		HOASM: Johann Mattheson He received a broad liberal arts education at the Johanneum, studying English, French, and Italian and receiving general music instruction from the cantor Joachim Gerstenbttel.
		Johann Mattheson Mattheson and the new rationalism Jack Botelho wrote (December 7, 2003 By the beginning of the 18th century, German opinion was becoming subject to the spirit of rationalism.
	banner-net.com /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/M/Mattheson,_Johann (528 words)

	Premiere of Boris Goudenow at the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College, Boston, MA
		Mattheson, one of Northern Europe’s leading composers -directors -theorists of the 18th-century and Handel’s most influential mentor in the composition of dramatic works, was never able to get his greatest operatic masterpiece, Boris Goudenow performed.
		Financial problems at the Hamburg Opera, political wrangling over the kinds of works presented there and questions about the musicians’ ability to convincingly perform his difficult score prevented the opera from being premiered in 1710.
		Soon after this, Mattheson was appointed Kapellmeister at the Hamburger Dom where he turned his attention to oratorios and passions.
	www.maj.org /P2005/bemf_premiere.html (658 words)

	Amazon.com: New Mattheson Studies: Books: George J. Buelow,Hans Joachim Marx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This collection of essays brings together the current research on Johann Mattheson (1681-1764).
		It is a great honor as well as a pleasure to speak tonight on the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Johann Mattheson.
		Johann Mattheson, Das Lied des Lammes, Melodische Wissenschaft, Vollkommenen Capellmeister, Musicalischer Patriot, Cyril Wich, State Papers, Matthesons Nachlaß, Reinhard Keiser, Zeitalter Matthesons, Patriotischen Gesellschaft, Collegium Hudemanno, Stadtbibliothek Hamburg, Matthesons Sicht, Neu-eröffneten Orchestre, Deutschen Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Unbekannte Kompositionen, Musicalisches Lexicon, John Passion, Johann Sebastian Bach, Critischer Musikus, John Wich, Der General-Baß, Teutsch-übenden Gesellschaft, Autograph Matthesons
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	www.miatrade.net Arts Music Composition Composers M Mattheson, Johann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		» Johann Mattheson - Biography tracing his musical and political careers with information on related people and his historical period from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
		» Johann Mattheson - Article detailing his life, especially his rationalist theories and resistance to them by the north German musical establishment.
		» Mattheson, Johann - Biography noting political and musical careers, showing youthful virtuosity, sustained excellence, and works both sacred and secular from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
	www.miatrade.net /Top/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/M/Mattheson,_Johann (225 words)

	2005 Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		of Russian Czar Boris Goudenow is now told through the masterful pen of Johann Mattheson (1681–1764), one of Northern Europe’s leading and most influential composers and mentor to the young George Frideric Handel.
		The reason it was not staged can now only be conjectured, but the score is clearly one of the crowning achievements of Mattheson’s compositional career and of the entire Hamburg opera.
		Don’t miss the BEMF Symposia on Johann Mattheson and the BEMF fully-staged world premiere of Boris Goudenow.
	www.bemf.org /05/opera.htm (426 words)

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		He played a number of different instruments for certain performances as well.
		Between 1715 and 1728 he was the musical director for the Cathedral in Hamburg where he wrote the majority of his twenty six oratorios.
	www.mp3.com /johann-mattheson/artists/146226/biography.html (224 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 83005157 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Publisher description for New Mattheson studies / edited by George J. Buelow and Hans Joachim Marx.
		This collection of essays brings together the current research on Johann Mattheson (1681-1764), an influential musician and chronicler of musical thought in eighteenth-century Germany.
		The essays explore the cultural climate of Hamburg during Mattheson's lifetime; Mattheson as a composer; Mattheson's relationship to his contemporaries; and Mattheson's influence on developing musical theories and aesthetics.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam032/83005157.html (117 words)

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