As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ reform movement ( Orgelbewegung ).

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

He envisaged instruments in which the French late-romantic full-organ sound should work integrally with the English and German romantic reed pipes, and with the classical Alsace Silbermann organ resources and baroque flue pipes, all in registers regulated ( by stops ) to access distinct voices in fugue or counterpoint capable of combination without loss of distinctness: different voices singing together in the same music.

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This rumour has been attributed by some to a rivalry between the German and the Italian schools of music.

While Italian by birth, Salieri had lived in imperial Vienna for almost 60 years and was regarded by such people as the music critic Friedrich Rochlitz as a German composer.

The song was first copyrighted in 1835 by the Boston-based music publisher Charles Bradlee, and given the title " The A. B. C., a German air with variations for the flute with an easy accompaniment for the piano forte ".

* 1567 – Christoph Demantius, German composer, music theorist, writer and poet ( d. 1643 )

* 1760 – Joseph Graetz, German composer, organist, and music educator ( d. 1826 )

* 1758 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer, conductor and teacher of music ( d. 1832 )

In 1974, German electronic music band Kraftwerk released the 22-minute song " Autobahn ," which takes up the entire first side of that LP.

Before the end of 1976, Bowie's interest in the burgeoning German music scene, as well as his drug addiction, prompted him to move to West Berlin to clean up and revitalise his career.

Other notational traditions do exist ; Italian solo music is typically written at the sounding pitch, and the " old " German method sounded an octave below where notation except in the treble clef, where the music was written at pitch.

The German composer Gerhard Stäbler wrote Co-wie Kobalt ( 1989 – 90 ), "... a music for double bass solo and grand orchestra.

Vertov studied music at Białystok Conservatory until his family fled from the invading German army to Moscow in 1915.

" The term is further derived from the German expression Volk, in the sense of " the people as a whole " as applied to popular and national music by Johann Gottfried Herder and the German Romantics over half a century earlier.

* 1932 – Heinz-Klaus Metzger, German music critic and theorist ( d. 2009 )

* 1637 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, German composer and music director in Hamburg ( d. 1718 )

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* Deutsche Grammophon, a German classical music record company, founded in 1898 by Emile Berliner

He took private lessons in counterpoint while attending operatic performances, as well as concerts of, specifically, German music.

Thus began one of the most productive periods in Telemann's life: during his tenure at Eisenach he composed a wealth of instrumental music ( sonatas and concertos ), and numerous sacred works, which included four or five complete annual cycles of church cantatas, 50 German and Italian cantatas, and some 20 serenatas.

More politically consolidated nations sponsored historical research projects which produced results of permanent value-such as the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (" Monuments of German History ") project.

The first Christian mission was founded on August 25, 1846, by Dr. Johann Ludwig Krapf, a German sponsored by the Church Missionary Society of England.

Also in 1919 Germany raised the issue of the Allied blockade to counter charges against the German use of submarine warfare. In 1928 a German academic study sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace provided a thorough analysis of the German civilian deaths during the war.

The study also estimated an additional 209, 000 Spanish flu deaths in 1918 A study sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1940 estimated the German civilian death toll at over 600, 000.

The Society is notable chiefly as the organization that sponsored the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( DAP ), which was later reorganized by Adolf Hitler into the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( NSDAP or Nazi Party ).

Flag of SR Slovenia, 1945-1991During World War II The Slovene national colours were used both by the Partisan Resistance Movement ( usually with a red star in the middle ) and by the Slovenian Home Guard, the voluntary anti-Communist militia sponsored and supporting by the Nazi German occupation forces.

The museum is sponsored and maintained by the Historical Society of North German Settlements in Western New York.

The project was sponsored by the German Hermes loans with DM 200 million.

The German site was first at the University of Heidelberg, operated by Rainer ; in 1999 it moved to the University of Mainz, also operated by Rainer ; 2002 to the University of Hamburg, operated by Reinhard Zierke ; finally in 2005 it moved to a commercial hosting company since the amount of traffic got too high to get sponsored by a university.

Some basic funding for the Fraunhofer Society is provided by the state ( the German public, through federal government together with the German Länder, “ owns ” the Fraunhofer Society ), but more than 70 % of the funding is earned through contract work, either for government sponsored projects or from industry.

* Immigration, often sponsored by local authorities, also brought foreign family names into the German speaking regions.

The Damenwahl tour was sponsored by the northern German condom manufacturer Fromms, who arranged for free samples to be scattered amongst the crowd.

In 2000 and 2001 there were several multi-day workshops sponsored by the German Ministry of Science and Education that preceded the conference.

The commercial reform efforts sponsored by Bavaria in 1856 led to the General German Commercial Code in 1861 that was quickly approved by a majority of the confederation.

During the first half of the 19th century, the German population grew due to state sponsored colonisation.

The Munich lodge of the Germanenorden Walvater when it was formally dedicated on August 18, 1918 was given the cover name, the Thule Society, which is notable chiefly as the organization that sponsored the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( DAP ), which was later transformed by Adolf Hitler into the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nazi Party ).

After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Berman escaped to Moscow and later became an instructor at the Comintern school in the city of Ufa ( south-east of Kuibyshev ), training displaced Polish communists who formed the new Soviet sponsored Polish Workers ' Party.

LinuxTag is sponsored by various IT-related companies and, at least in some of its iterations, by the German government.

At the end of 1988, former World Champion Hennie Kuiper set up a German cycling team that was sponsored by the city of Stuttgart and rode on Eddy Merckx cycles.

* 1873, Thorn, German translation sponsored by the local Coppernicus Society, with all Copernicus ' textual corrections given as footnotes.

In the aftermath of the November Revolution of 1918 that marked the end of the German Empire and the beginning of the Weimar Republic, there was strong animosity amongst many Germans towards the Weimar Republic and the social democrats who sponsored its creation.