Andreas Werckmeister

Andreas Werckmeister was a German organist, music theorist, and composer of the Baroque era. He was amongst the earliest advocates of equal temperament, and through this advocacy was highly influential to the harmonic basis underlying almost all of subsequent Western music. ^{Andreas Werckmeister, German organist, composer, and theorist (d. 1706)}

30 November 1645

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