Birth Anniversary: Johann Mattheson — September 28, 1681
Born in Hamburg on 28 September 1681, the son of a tax official. A brilliant polymath and prodigy who mastered keyboard instruments, violin and vocal performance, he made his debut at the Hamburg Opera at nine and formed an intense, lifelong friendship and rivalry with George Frideric Handel during their early years together at the Gänsemarkt.
Dates verified on Beekman C. Cannon, Johann Mattheson: Spectator in Music, Yale University Press, 1947, ISBN 978-0208006844, pp. 1-35; Deutsche Biographie / NDB, vol. 16 (1990), pp. 402-404 (https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118578995.html).
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