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    Johann Mattheson was a German composer, singer, writer, music theorist, and diplomat born in 1681 in Hamburg, Germany. He received a broad liberal education including musical training in keyboard, violin, composition, and singing. By age nine he was singing and playing organ in church. He had a close relationship with George Frideric Handel, although they nearly fought in a duel after a performance. Mattheson is mainly famous as a music theorist and wrote extensively on performance practice and musical style. He composed vocal works including eight operas and oratorios, as well as some keyboard music and sonatas. After his death in 1764, he was buried in Hamburg's St. Michaelis Church.

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    Johann Mattheson was a German composer, singer, writer, music theorist, and diplomat born in 1681 in Hamburg, Germany. He received a broad liberal education including musical training in keyboard, violin, composition, and singing. By age nine he was singing and playing organ in church. He had a close relationship with George Frideric Handel, although they nearly fought in a duel after a performance. Mattheson is mainly famous as a music theorist and wrote extensively on performance practice and musical style. He composed vocal works including eight operas and oratorios, as well as some keyboard music and sonatas. After his death in 1764, he was buried in Hamburg's St. Michaelis Church.

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    Johann Mattheson was a German composer, singer, writer, music theorist, and diplomat born in 1681 in Hamburg, Germany. He received a broad liberal education including musical training in keyboard, violin, composition, and singing. By age nine he was singing and playing organ in church. He had a close relationship with George Frideric Handel, although they nearly fought in a duel after a performance. Mattheson is mainly famous as a music theorist and wrote extensively on performance practice and musical style. He composed vocal works including eight operas and oratorios, as well as some keyboard music and sonatas. After his death in 1764, he was buried in Hamburg's St. Michaelis Church.

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    Johann Mattheson

    Johann Mattheson (28 September 1681 17 April cluding pieces meant for keyboard instruction. All of his
    1764) was a German composer, singer, writer, music, except for one opera, one oratorio, and a few collexicographer, diplomat and music theorist.
    lections of instrumental music, went missing after World
    Mattheson was born and died in Hamburg. He was a close War II, but was given back to Hamburg from Yerevan,
    Armenia, in 1998. This includes four operas and most
    friend of George Frideric Handel, although he nearly
    killed him in a sudden quarrel, during a performance of of the oratorios. The manuscripts are now located at the
    Staats- und Universittsbibliothek Hamburg, the former
    Matthesons opera Cleopatra in 1704. Handel was saved
    only by a large button which turned aside Matthesons Hamburg Stadtbibliothek (City Library).
    sword. The two were afterwards reconciled and remained
    in correspondence for life: shortly after his friends death,
    Mattheson translated John Mainwaring's Handel biography into German and had it published in Hamburg at his
    own expense ("auf Kosten des bersetzers") in 1761.[1]

    1 See also
    Letters and writings of George Frideric Handel

    The son of a well-to-do tax collector, Mattheson received


    a broad liberal education and, aside from general musical training, took lessons in keyboard instruments, violin, 2 References
    composition and singing. By age nine he was singing and
    playing organ in church and was a member of the cho- Notes
    rus of the Hamburg opera. He made his solo debut with
    the Hamburg opera in 1696 in female roles and, after [1] Georg Friderich Hndels Lebensbeschreibung, nebst einem
    Verzeichnisse seiner Ausbungswerke und deren Beurhis voice changed, sang tenor at the opera, conducted retheilung; bersetzet, auch mit einigen Anmerkungen, abhearsals and composed operas himself. He was cantor at
    sonderlich ber den hamburgischen Artikel, versehen vom
    St. Marys Cathedral from 1718 until increasing deafness
    Legations-Rath Mattheson, Hamburgh, auf Kosten des
    led to his retirement from that post in 1728.

    bersetzers, 1761 (accessible for free online as a Google


    ebook).

    Matthesons chief occupation from 1706 was as a professional diplomat. He had studied English in school and
    spoke it uently. He became tutor to the son of the English ambassador Sir John Wich and then secretary to the
    ambassador. He went on diplomatic missions abroad representing the ambassador. In 1709 he married an English
    woman.

    [2] Agathe Sueur, Le Frein et l'Aiguillon. Eloquence musicale


    et nombre oratoire (XVIe-XVIIIe sicle), Paris, Classiques
    Garnier, 2014. Johann Mattheson et le pdantisme: des
    usages de l'rudition dans la thorie musicale allemande au
    XVIIIe sicle, Revue de musicologie, 2014, 100/1, pp.336.

    After his death in 1764, Johann Mattheson was buried in


    the vault of Hamburgs St. Michaelis Church where his Bibliography
    grave can be visited.
    Johann Mattheson, Rhetoric and music from
    Mattheson is mainly famous as a music theorist. He was
    The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,
    the most abundant writer on performance practice, theed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Pubatrical style, and harmony of the German Baroque. He is
    lishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
    particularly important for his work on the relationship of
    the disciplines of rhetoric and music, for example in Das
    Manfred Bukofzer, Music in the Baroque Era. New
    neu-ernete Orchestre, Hamburg 1713 koelnklavier.de
    York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1947. ISBN 0-393and Der vollkommene Capellmeister. (PDF) Hamburg
    09745-5
    1739; Extracts. However his books raise more and more
    attention and suspicion because Mattheson was a brilliant polemist and his theories on music are often full of 3 External links
    pedantry and pseudo-erudition.[2]
    The bulk of his compositional output was vocal, including
    eight operas, and numerous oratorios and cantatas. He
    also wrote a few sonatas and some keyboard music, in-

    Free scores by Johann Mattheson at the International


    Music Score Library Project

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