Death Anniversary: Johann Mattheson — April 17, 1764
He died in Hamburg on 17 April 1764 and was buried in Saint Michael’s Church, to which he bequeathed forty-four thousand marks. Beyond his operas and oratorios, his monumental treatises Der vollkommene Capellmeister and Critica musica served as the primary musical and aesthetic encyclopedias of the German Enlightenment.
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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