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Birth Anniversary: Adam Falckenhagen — April 26, 1697
26 April 2027
Born at Großdalzig near Leipzig on 26 April 1697, the son of a teacher. He studied the lute with Sylvius Leopold Weiss in Dresden and became one of the foremost German lute virtuosos of the late baroque, serving the court of Duke Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar.
Dates verified on Joachim Domning, Der Lautenist Adam Falckenhagen (1697–1754), Hamburg, 1983; Grove Music Online, entry "Falckenhagen, Adam" (https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.09257).
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