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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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JOHANN

FRIEDRICH AGRICOLA (1720-1774)  , German musician, was born at Dobitschen in Saxe-
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Altenburg, on the 4th of
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January 1720 . While a student of law at
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Leipzig he studied
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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 time; and in 1751, as the result of a comic opera, Il Filosofo convinto in amore, performed at
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Potsdam, he was made court composer to Frederick the
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Great . He died in Berlin on the 1st of December 1774 . In 17J9, on the
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death of Karl Heinrich Graun, he was appointed conductor of the royal orchestra . Besides several operas of merit, he composed instrumental pieces and church 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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