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Birth Anniversary: Johann Friedrich Fasch — April 15, 1688
15 April 2027
Buttelstedt
Born in Buttelstedt near Weimar on 15 April 1688, the son of a schoolmaster. Educated at the Thomasschule in Leipzig under Johann Kuhnau, he established a rival student collegium musicum before serving courts in Zeitz, Gera and Prague under Count Morzin.
Dates verified on Gottfried Küntzel, Die Instrumentalkonzerte von Johann Friedrich Fasch, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1928, pp. 10-35; Internationale Fasch-Gesellschaft documentation (https://www.fasch.net/biografie.html).
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