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Johann Baptist Anton Vallade
german18th century
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Johann Baptist Anton Vallade was an 18th-century Bavarian organist and composer best known for practical, didactic organ music. Little is securely documented about his early life, though he is associated with the Ingolstadt region; a major 19th-century reference work places him as organist in Mendorf/Mandorf near Ingolstadt, and modern scholarship notes that he served as organist of the small church in Mendorf beginning around 1747, apparently remaining there until his death in or after 1780. Vallade’s reputation rests above all on instructional keyboard/organ publications issued in Augsburg, including Dreyfaches Musicalisches Exercitium auf die Orgel (1755) and Der praeludierende Organist (1757), collections designed to train essential skills such as preluding and cadence formation and to support learners working without direct supervision. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.