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Johann Gottlob Hertel

An 18th-century German composer and keyboard player, he spent much of his career in the courts of Mecklenburg and wrote music that bridges the late Baroque and early Classical styles.

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Dissertationem de hominibvs post mortem sangvisvgis, vvlgo sic dictis Vampyren

Dissertationem de hominibvs post mortem sangvisvgis, vvlgo sic dictis Vampyren

by Johann Gottlob Hertel, Johann Christoph Pohl

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Johann Gottlob Hertel was a German composer, harpsichordist, and violinist born in Eisenach in 1717. Sources describe him as a musician shaped by strong family and court traditions, and his work is often placed at the meeting point of the late Baroque and the emerging Classical style.

After early musical training, he built his career in northern Germany, especially in the service of the ducal courts at Schwerin and Ludwigslust. He became known for instrumental and vocal music written for court life, including symphonies, concertos, keyboard works, and sacred pieces.

Although he is not as widely known today as some of his contemporaries, Hertel is remembered as a skilled and versatile court composer whose music reflects a period of change in German musical taste.