JOHANN NIKOLAUS See also:

• JOHANN NIKOLAUS FORKEL (1749-1818)

FORKEL (1749-1818)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German musician, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 22nd of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1949 at Meeder in See also:

• COBURG

Coburg . He was the son of a cobbler, and as a See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical musician, especially as a See also:

• PIANOFORTE (Ital. piano, soft, and forte, loud)

pianoforte player, achieved some See also:

• EMINENCE (Lat. eminentia)

eminence; but his claims to a more abiding name See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest chiefly upon his See also:

• LITERARY

literary skill and deep See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research as an historian of musical See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science and literature . He was an enthusiastic admirer of J . S . See also:

• BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN (1685–1750)
• BACH, KARL PHILIPP EMANUEL (1714-1788)

Bach, whose See also:

• MUSIC

music he did much to popularize . His library, which was accumulated with care and discrimination at a timewhen rare books were cheap, forms a valuable portion of the royal library in See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin and also of the library of the Koniglicher Institut See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur Kirchenmusik . He was organist to the university 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)

church of See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, obtained the degree of See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, and in 1778 became musical director of the university . He died at Gottingen on the 20th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1818 . The following is a See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of his See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• WORKS

works: Uber See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Theorie der Musik (Gottingen, 1777); Musikalisch kritische Bibliothek (See also:

• GOTHA

Gotha, 1778); Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1788) . The last is his most important See also:

• WORK

work . He also wrote a See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary of Musical Literature, which is full of valuable material . To his musical compositions, which are numerous, little See also:

• INTEREST

interest is to-See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day to be attached .

But it is See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth noting that he wrote See also:

• VARIATIONS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS OF

variations on the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• ANTHEM

anthem " See also:

• GOD

God See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king " for the See also:

• CLAVICHORD, or CLARICHORD (Fr. manicorde; Ger. Clavichord; Ital. manicordo; Span. manicordio1)

clavichord, and that See also:

• ABT, FRANZ (1819-1885)

Abt See also:

• VOGLER, GEORG JOSEPH (1749-1814)

Vogler wrote a See also:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

sharp See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism on them, which appeared at See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort in 1793 together with a set of variations as he conceived they ought to be written .