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Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783) was the musician, composer (primarily of fugues), and music idealogue. The pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach, he became a fiddler at a court of Frederick II of Prussia in 1751. Numerous of Bach's manuscripts keep close at hand been preserved within his library (a 'Kirnberger collection'). He is known in todays world primarily for his theoretical act "Die Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik" (a art of uncontaminating composition within music, 1774, 1779). A well-tempered tuning known as 'Kirnberger III' is associated by using his title, when occurs as rational version of equal temperament (see schisma).
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Kirnberger, Johann Philipp Biography. Johann Philipp Kirnberger Biography from Here Of A Sunday Morning the radio program with links to background material and related composers. Johann Philipp Kirnberger Biography, sheet music, websites, and books. Kirnberger, Johann Philipp Biography of J. S. Bach's pupil, noting his own compositions and his treatises on others' works. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio. |
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