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German music theorist and musician (–)

Johann Gottfried Walther (18 September &#; 23 March ) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era.

Life and work

Walther was born at Erfurt.

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Not only was his life almost exactly contemporaneous to that of Johann Sebastian Bach, he was the famous composer's cousin.

Walther was most well known as the compiler of the Musicalisches Lexicon (Leipzig, ), an enormous dictionary of music and musicians.

Not only was it the first dictionary of musical terms written in the German language, it was the first to contain both terms and biographical information about composers and performers up to the early 18th century. In all, the Musicalisches Lexicon defines more than 3, musical terms; Walther evidently drew on more than separate sources in compiling it, including theoretical treatises of the early Baroque and Renaissance.

The single most important source for the work was t