[36] This is the date given by Mattheson. In some dictionaries we find 1667; this, however, seems to be an error, for that would only make Kuhnau fifteen years of age when he became candidate for the post of organist of St. Thomas'. Fetis, who gives the later date (1667), states that in 1684 Kuhnau became organist of St. Thomas', but adds: "Quoiqu'il ne fut age que de dix-sept ans." [37] This Kittel must surely have been father or uncle of Johann Christian Kittel, Bach's last pupil. [38] Mattheson, in his _Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte_, published at Hamburg in 1740, complains that the names of Salomon Kruegner, Christian Kittel, A. Kuhnau, and Hering are not to be found in the musical dictionaries. The first and third have not, even now, a place. [39] In a letter written by Graupner to Mattheson, the former, after mentioning that he studied the clavier and also composition under Kuhnau, says:--"Weil ich mich auch bei Kuhnau, als Notist, von selbsten ambot, u. eine gute Zeit fuer ihn schrieb, gab nur solches gewuenschte Gelegenheit, viel gutes zu sehen, u. wo etwa ein Zweifel enstund, um muendlichen Bericht zu bitten, wie dieses oder jenes zu verstehen?" ("As I offered myself as copyist to Kuhnau, and wrote some long time for him, such a wished-for opportunity enabled me to study much good (music), and, whenever a doubt arose to learn by word of mouth how this or that was to be understood.") [40] In the _Dictionnaire de Musique_ by Bossard (2nd ed. 1705) no mention is made under the article "Sonata" of one for the clavier, and yet the above had been published ten years previously. [41] See also next chapter. [42] Nearly the whole of this composer's works are said to have been destroyed at the bombardment of Dresden in 1760. [43] The sonata is given in _Le Tresor des Pianistes_ with the ornaments, yet even there more than a dozen have been omitted. [44] The clavier by its very nature tended towards polyphony; the violin towards monody. And, besides, Kuhnau prided himself on the fugal character of his sonatas. [45] Even in the later "Bible" Sonatas, figures from these sonatas recur. [46] Cf. _The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book_, edited by J.A. Fuller-Maitland and W. Barclay Squire (Breitkopf & Haertel). [47] Johann Jakob Froberger died in 1667. [48] Meyer thinks he was probably the son of Ercole Pasquini, born about 1580, and predecessor of Frescobaldi at St. Peter's. [49] Weitzmann and other writers, in referring to the work published at Amsterdam, spell the name Paglietti; it should, however, be Polietti or Poglietti. [50] This piece was printed from a manuscript in the British Museum, which bears no such title. Judging, however, from the title of the _libro prezioso_ mentioned on p. 71 [Transcriber's Note: p. 73], that name may originally have been given to it. [51] The suite is printed in the _Pasquini-Grieco Album_ by Messrs. Novello.