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Johan Daniel Berlin
7+ albums
Classical18th centuryrococonorwegianGalante
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Johan Daniel Berlin (12 May 1714 – 4 November 1787) was a Norwegian composer and organist, remembered as one of the founders of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.[1] He was born in Memel (now Klaipėda, Lithuania). At the age of nineteen, he came to Copenhagen, starting out as an apprentice to the privileged town musician there, Andreas Berg. In 1737, he became the privileged town musician in Trondheim. In 1741, he became organist of the cathedral. In addition, he held the positions as captain of the fire brigade and inspector of the water-works, practiced as an architect, land-surveyor, artisan, constructor and maker of instruments, made series of meteorological, geomagnetic, and astronomical observations, and was for 38 years an active member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. Only a few of the compositions of Berlin have been preserved. His book, Musicaliske Elementer, printed in Trondheim in 1744, was the first Norwegian textbook on the theory of music and instruments User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Sinfonía a 5: III. Allegro
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283Sinfonía a 5: II. Largo
284Violin Concerto in A Major: I. Allegro
215Sinfonia a 5 for Cornetto and Strings in D Major: I Allegro
216Concerto for Violin and Strings in A Major: I Allegro
197Sinfonia a 5 for Cornetto and Strings in D Major: II Largo
188Sinfonia a 5 for Cornetto and Strings in D Major: III Allegro
179Sinfonia a 6 in D Major: III Allegro
1610Concerto for Violin and Strings in A Major: II Adagio
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