Christian Friedrich Witt (1660 - 1717)

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Christian Friedrich Witt, or Witte (ca. 1660? 3 April 1717) was a German composer, music editor and teacher.
He was born in Altenburg, where his father, Johann Ernst Witt, was court organist; he had come from Denmark around 1650 when a Danish princess married into the house of Saxe-Altenburg. Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg probably gave Witt a scholarship in 1676 to study in Vienna and Salzburg, and then from 1685?1686 to study composition and counterpoint in Nuremberg with Georg Cas ... (lire la suite)
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