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Heinrich Christoph Koch (10 October 1749 – 19 March 1816) was a German music theorist, musical lexicographer and composer. In his lifetime, his music dictionary was widely distributed in Germany and Denmark; today his theory of form and syntax is used to analyse music of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Sturm und Drang movement did not last long; according to Betty Waterhouse it began in 1771 and ended in 1778 (Waterhouse v). The rise of the middle class in the 18th century led to a change in the way society and social standings were looked at. Dramatists and writers saw the stage as a venue for critique and discussion of societal issues.
Before 1750, the German upper classes often looked to France (or, previously, Italy) for intellectual, cultural and architectural leadership; French was the language of high society. By the mid-18th century the "Aufklärung" (The Enlightenment) had transformed German high culture in music, philosophy, science and literature.
Franz Anton Mesmer (/ ˈ m ɛ z m ər / MEZ-mər; [1] German:; 23 May 1734 – 5 March 1815) was a German physician with an interest in astronomy.He theorized the existence of a process of natural energy transference occurring between all animate and inanimate objects; this he called "animal magnetism", later referred to as mesmerism.
Gertrud Orff was committed to the development of the emerging professional profile of music therapy in the forerunner form of the German Music Therapy Society. [4] From 1980 onwards she passed on her knowledge to students attending courses, which from 1986 gave rise to further training, which is continued by the German Academy for Development ...
Although the movement traced its roots back to the 15th-century Congregazioni Ceciliani, which in turn inspired the formation during the 18th century in Munich, Passau, Vienna, and other places of Caecilien-Bündnisse (Cecilian Leagues) with the goal of promoting the a cappella singing of sacred music (in keeping with the edicts of the Council of Trent), the Cecilian movement proper is ...
The first decades of the 19th century saw an increasing number of first publications of Bach's music: Breitkopf started publishing chorale preludes, [65] Hoffmeister harpsichord music, [66] and the Well-Tempered Clavier was printed concurrently by Simrock (Germany), Nägeli (Switzerland) and Hoffmeister (Germany and Austria) in 1801. [67]
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century German male musicians and Category:18th-century German women musicians The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.