Kuhnau, Johann

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Kuhnau's portrait, from a hand-colored 1689 edition of his Neue Clavier-Übung, erster Theil (Source: Wikimedia)

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Basic data

  1. Kunstlieb, Julius Pen Names
  2. Cuno, Johann Alternative Names
  3. April 6, 1660 in Geising
  4. †
    June 5, 1722 in Leipzig
  5. Komponist, Thomaskantor, Jurist, Schriftsteller
  6. Dresden, Leipzig

Iconography

Kuhnau's portrait, from a hand-colored 1689 edition of his Neue Clavier-Übung, erster Theil (Source: Wikimedia)
Engraving of frontispiece of Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien, the "Six Biblical Sconatas" published by Kuhnau and printed by Immanuel Tietze in 1710. In an idealised music room, the lady can be seen on the right playing a house organ with the motto Dum ludo alludo, a bible by the wall behind. On the left is a clavichord, concealing the tail of a harpsichord. (Source: Wikimedia)
Title page of Kuhnau's satirical novel Der musicalische Quack-Salber (Source: Wikimedia)

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