of his consort, | | instruments, etc. and is proclaimed | | King of Prussia, | | by the title of | | Frederick | | I. (1701). | | | | During the eighteenth German poets and | | century, most of the German authors:-- | | Opera composers of distinction Elias Schlegel, | | wrote chiefly to Italian words. Gellert, Hagedorn, | | Every German town in which Rabener, | | a Sovereign resided had an Rammler, Kleist, | | Italian Opera. The German art of Weisse, Buerger, | | singing began to flourish Hoelty, Stollberg, | | only about the year 1760. Even Voss, | | Mozart wrote but two Operas to German Gleim, Jacoby, | | words. The German composers Uz, Gerstenberg, | | (Handel, Gluck, Hasse, Mozart, etc.) Gotter, | | studied dramatic music in Italy. Claudius, Gessner. | | | | BACH (JOHANN SEBASTIAN), born Frederick William I, | | 1685 at Eisenach, in Germany, died King of Prussia, | | 1750 at Leipzig. Composed several son of | | Oratorios, many Masses, a great many Frederick I. | | motetts, cantatas, chorales, etc.; (1713). | | many compositions for the organ, | | clavichord, clavicembalo First attempt of | | (harpsichord), and for the orchestra. Steam Navigation, | | The first book of his Preludes by Jonathan | | and Fugues for the clavichord, Hulls | | entitled 'Das Wohltemperirte Clavier,' (1736). | | dates from the year 1722, and the | | second book from the year 1740. He John Wesley, | | composed the Passion according to founder of the | | St. Matthew, about the year 1728; the sect of Methodists | | great Mass in B minor, about 1734; (1730). | | the Art of Fugue, in the year 1748. | | | | Stoelzel (Gottfried Heinrich), born George Whitfield, | | 1690 in Bohemia, died 1749. Several founder of the | | Operas, Oratorios, Masses, and sect of Calvinistic | | Treatises on the Theory and History of Methodists, | | Music. preaches in | | London in the | | open air (1738). | | | | The Methodist | | Society is fully | |