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German composer and theorist (1681-1764)

Also known as: Aristoxenos, Aristoxenus, Aristoxenus der jüngere, Иоганн Маттезон, 요한 마테손, ヨハン・マッテゾン

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Johann Joachim Quantz1697–1773
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Comprehensive 18th-century German treatise on performance practice and musical taste, comparable to Mattheson's encyclopedic pedagogical works. (AI reason)
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach1714–1788
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His Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen continues the German tradition of systematic musical instruction and aesthetics. (AI reason)
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Johann David Heinichen1683–1729
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Wrote a major thoroughbass treatise engaging the same questions of style, affect and composition as Mattheson. (AI reason)
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Johann Joseph Fux1660–1741
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Gradus ad Parnassum is a foundational baroque composition treatise read alongside Mattheson's theory. (AI reason)
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Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg1718–1795
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Mid-18th-century Berlin critic and theorist who wrote polemical periodicals and treatises in a similar vein. (AI reason)
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Johann Adolph Scheibe1708–1776
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His periodical Der critische Musikus follows Mattheson's model of combative music criticism and aesthetics. (AI reason)
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Johann Gottfried Walther1684–1748
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Compiled the Musicalisches Lexicon, an encyclopedic German music reference of the same era. (AI reason)
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Jean-Philippe Rameau1683–1764
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His Traité de l'harmonie offers a contemporaneous systematic theory of harmony debated in Mattheson's circle. (AI reason)
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Johann Philipp Kirnberger1721–1783
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Die Kunst des reinen Satzes extends German baroque compositional pedagogy into the later 18th century. (AI reason)
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Leopold Mozart1719–1787
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His violin treatise belongs to the same genre of 18th-century German practical music instruction. (AI reason)
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