!!!Röllig, Karl Leopold

Roellig, Karl Leopold, b. Hamburg (Germany), around 1745, 
d. Vienna, March 4, 1804, glass harmonica player and composer. Lived 
in Vienna from 1791 (librarian at the court library); also became 
known for his inventions ("keyed harmonica" = glass harmonica with 
keyboard, 1795 "Orphika" = portable piano from which he developed the 
"Xenorphika" 1801).



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