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Johann Friedrich Agricola (
January 4,
1720 –
December 2,
1774) was a
German composer,
organist,
singer,
pedagogue and
writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym
Flavio Anicio Olibrio.
Biography
Johann Friedrich Agricola was born in
Dobitschen,
Thuringia. While a student of law at
Leipzig he studied music under
Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1741 he went to
Berlin, where he studied musical composition under
Johann Joachim Quantz.
He was soon generally recognized as one of the most skillful organists of his time. The success of his comic opera,
Il Filosofo convinto in amore, performed at
Potsdam in 1750, led to an appointment as court composer to
Frederick the Great. In 1759, on the death of
Karl Heinrich Graun, he was appointed conductor of the royal orchestra. He married the noted operatic soprano Benedetta Emilia Molteni, a marriage of which the king apparently disapproved. Agricola died in
Berlin at 54.
During his lifetime, Agricola wrote a number of Italian operas, as well as
Lieder,
chorale preludes, various other keyboard pieces and church music, especially
oratorios and
cantatas. His reputation chiefly rests, however, on his theoretical and critical writings on musical subjects. In 1754 he co-wrote with
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach an obituary for Bach-the-elder,
Johann Sebastian Bach. His 1757
Anleitung zur Singekunst (
Introduction to the Art of Singing) is
Pier Francesco Tosi's 1723 treatise
Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni with Agricola's own extensive comments.
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