id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 40384 Engel, Carl Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 2 (of 2) .txt text/plain 85125 5467 73 Johann Mattheson, born in Hamburg, in the year 1681, was at the time of Handel's arrival tenor singer and musical composer at the theatre of the age of 83,--Mattheson published a great number of treatises on musical he composed the music Mattheson had been deaf for nearly thirty years. pieces, dance-music, to cheer the heart; and to England we leave the composer represented with all the powers of music the moment called work them out carefully according to the rules of musical composition. (Frederick the Great) King of Prussia (born 1712, died 1786) was a performers on musical instruments they can find in the country. case with the music composed for the instruments; it did not possess the Islands, in the year 1769, a comedy with music and dancing, performed by present century, a kind of musical drama performed by men and boys, the present opera _music_ is the principal art. ./cache/40384.txt ./txt/40384.txt