Johann Gottfried Walther

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Johann Gottfried Walther (18 September 1684 – 23 March 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. Not only was his life almost exactly contemporaneous to that of Johann Sebastian Bach, he was the famous composer's cousin. Walther was most famous as the compiler of the Musicalisches Lexicon (Leipzig, 1732), an enormous dictionary of music and musicians. Not only was it the first dictionary of musical terms written in the German language, it was the first to contain both terms and biographical information about composers and performers up to the early 18th century. In all, the Musicalisches Lexicon defines more than 3000 musical terms; Walther evidently drew on more than 250 separate sources in compiling it, including theoretical treatises of the early Baroque and Renaissance. The single most important source for the work was the writings of Johann Mattheson, who is referenced more than 200 times. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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WALTHER: Organ Works, Vol. 1

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Cantate Domino

WALTHER: Organ Works, Vol. 2

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WALTHER: Organ Works, Vol. 1

Walther: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 1

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Walther: Organ Works

Walther: Organ Works & Transcriptions, Vols. 1-10

Walther: Complete Organ Music Vol. 2

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Ton Koopman at the Zacharias Hildebrandt Organ (1726) In Lengefeld in the Erzgebirge

Chamber Music (Baroque Italian) - Vivaldi, A. / Jacchini, G. / Manfredini, F. / Aldrovandini, G. / Scarlatti, A. / Gabrielli, D.

Johann Gottfried Walther: Concertos & Chorals

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Walther: Organ Works, Vol. 2

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