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JOHANN FRIEDRICH AGRICOLA (1720-1774)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 387 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRIEDRICH See also:AGRICOLA (1720-1774)  , See also:German musician, was See also:born at Dobitschen in See also:Saxe-See also:Altenburg, on the 4th of See also:January 1720 . While a student of See also:law at See also:Leipzig he studied See also:music under Johann See also:Sebastian See also:Bach . In 1741 he went to See also:Berlin, where he studied musical See also:composition . He was soon generally recognized as one of the most skilful organists of his See also:time; and in 1751, as the result of a comic See also:opera, Il Filosofo convinto in amore, performed at See also:Potsdam, he was made See also:court composer to See also:Frederick the See also:Great . He died in Berlin on the 1st of See also:December 1774 . In 17J9, on the See also:death of Karl Heinrich See also:Graun, he was appointed conductor of the royal See also:orchestra . Besides several operas of merit, he composed instrumental pieces and See also:church music . His reputation chiefly rests, however, on his theoretical, and See also:critical writings on musical subjects . He wrote under the See also:pseudonym of Flavio Anicio Olibrio .

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