JOHANN FRIEDRICH AGRICOLA (1720-1774)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V01,
Page 387
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
JOHANN FRIEDRICH AGRICOLA (1720-1774)
, German
musician, was born at Dobitschen in Saxe- Altenburg, on the 4th of January 1720
.
While a student of law at Leipzig he studied music under Johann Sebastian Bach
.
In 1741 he went to Berlin, where he studied musical composition
.
He was soon generally recognized as one of the most skilful organists of his See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
; and in 1751, as the result of a comic opera, Il Filosofo convinto in amore, performed at Potsdam, he was made court composer to Frederick the Great
.
He died in Berlin on the 1st of December 1774
.
In 17J9, on the death of Karl Heinrich Graun, he was appointed conductor of the royal orchestra
.
Besides several operas of merit, he composed instrumental pieces and See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
music
.
His reputation chiefly rests, however, on his theoretical, and critical writings on musical subjects
.
He wrote under the pseudonym of Flavio Anicio Olibrio
.
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