Johann Mattheson

1681 - 1764

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: Baroque music

genre: opera

country of citizenship: Germany

languages spoken, written or signed: German

occupation: composer, lexicographer, linguist, organist, diplomat, musicologist, music theorist, writer, opera singer

student of: Johann Nikolaus Hanff, Johann Theile

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". Source: Wikipedia (en)