Johann Mattheson (Composer)
Born: 28th September 1681, Hamburg, Germany
Died: 17th April 1764, Hamburg, Germany
Nationality: German
Johann Mattheson was a German composer, singer, writer, lexicographer, diplomat and music theorist.
Mattheson was born and died in Hamburg. He was a close friend of George Frideric Handel, although he nearly killed him in a sudden quarrel, during a performance of Mattheson's opera Cleopatra in 1704. Handel was saved only by a large button which turned aside Mattheson's sword. The two were afterwards reconciled and remained in correspondence for life: shortly after his friend's death, Mattheson translated John Mainwaring's Handel biography into German and had it published in Hamburg at his own expense ("auf Kosten des Übersetzers") in 1761.
The son of a well-to-do tax collector, Mattheson received a broad liberal education and, aside from general musical training, took lessons in keyboard instruments, violin, composition and singing.
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- 'Air' from Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in C minor (4)
- 12 Sonatas for flute, violin & continuo (1)
- Ach Absalom (1)
- Boris Goudenow (1)
- Das größte Kind (Christmas Oratorio) (1)
- Der liebreiche und geduldige David (1)
- Der Ober-Classe Dreizehntes Prob-Stück (1)
- Der Ober-Classe Siebendes Prob-Stück (1)
- Die heilsame Geburt und Menschwerdung unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi (Christmas Oratorio) (1)
- Die unglücksselige Cleopatra (1)
- Ein hoher Geist (1)
- Endlich muss man doch entdecken (1)
- Fughetta in C minor (1)
- Fugue in G major (1)
- Gia tutto valore (from Nero) (1)
- In deinem schönen Mund (1)
- Joseph (1)
- Magnificat a due cori (1)
- Mein Leben ist hin (from Die unglückselige Cleopatra) (1)
- Overture in F 'Die geheimen Begebeneiten Henrico IV' (1)
- Pièces de Clavecin (London, 1714) - extracts (1)
- Prelude in B flat (1)
- Ruhe sanft, geliebter Geist (from Die unglückselige Cleopatra) (1)
- Sonata and Suite in G major / G minor for two harpsichords (1)
- Sonata per Clavicembalo (1)
- Suite in G minor (2)
- Suites (12) for harpsichord (2)
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