!!!Muffat, Gottlieb

Muffat, Gottlieb, baptized Passau (Germany), April 25, 1690, 
d. Vienna, Dec. 9, 1770, organist and composer. Son of Georg  
Muffat. From approx. 1711 at the imperial court as "imperial student", 
from 1717 "imperial organ player", taught the children of the royal 
family (among them Maria Theresia); retired in 1764. composed music 
for keyboard instruments only, following the baroque tradition of 
organ playing. regarded as one of the last exponents of the baroque 
Viennese school of organists.<< /P>

!Works
72 verselets, 1726; Componimenti musicali, around 1739. - 
Toccatas, capricci, ricercari, canzone, partitas.

!Literature
S. Wollenberg, Viennese Keyboard Tradition in the Reign of 
Karl&nbsp;VI., doctoral thesis, Oxford, 1975.



%%language
[Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Muffat,_Gottlieb|class='wikipage austrian']
%%

[{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}]
[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]