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Friedrich Erhard Niedt
18th centurygerman17th century
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Friedrich Erhard Niedt (baptized 31 May 1674, Jena) was a German jurist and notary who also became known as a music theorist and composer in the early eighteenth century. He is associated with Jena in his student years and with later activity connected to Hamburg and Copenhagen. Niedt’s reputation rests chiefly on his practical, keyboard-centred teaching in thoroughbass and composition, issued in print as the multi-part Musicalische Handleitung, oder gründlicher Unterricht, which survives in early editions and is now available in digitised form from major research libraries. The third part circulated as a posthumous publication edited by Johann Mattheson. Reference sources disagree on his death year in Copenhagen (1708 versus 1717), so the end-date of his life must be treated with caution; Copenhagen itself is consistent across the reference surfaces consulted here. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.