Spazier, Johann Gottlieb Karl
Spazier, Johann Gottlieb Karl
Spazier, Johann Gottlieb Karl, German pedagogue, writer on music, and composer; b. Berlin, April 20, 1761; d. Leipzig, Jan. 19, 1805. He was a student of philosophy at the Univ. of Halle, then a prof. of philosophy at the Univ. of Giessen; settled in Leipzig in 1800. He composed many songs, some of which became great favorites. Among his writings are Freymüthige Gedanken über die Gottesverehrung der Protestanten (Gotha, 1788), Carl Pilger’s Roman seines Lebens von ihm selbst geschrieben: Ein Beitrag zur Erziehung und Kultur des Menschen (Berlin, 1792–96), and Etwas über Gluckische Musik und die Oper Iphigenia in Tauris auf dem Berlinischen Nationaltheater (Berlin, 1795).
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