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Johann Andreas Herbst
1666Jan, 24

Johann Andreas Herbst

Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and theorist (b. 1588)
Johann Andreas Herbst (baptized June 9, 1588 – January 24, 1666) was a German composer and music theorist of the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz, and like them, assisted in importing the grand Venetian style and the other features of the early Baroque into Protestant Germany.

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