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

In 1893 he played for the French organist Charles-Marie Widor ( at Saint-Sulpice, Paris ), for whom Johann Sebastian Bach's organ-music contained a mystic sense of the eternal.

* Very possibly described as a lituus in Bb: Cantata BWV 118-O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht ( Johann Sebastian Bach )

* 1613 – Christoph Bach, court musician, grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach ( d. 1661 )

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

* 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

* 1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

* Johann Sebastian Bach, the German composer

* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, a classical composer and son of Johann Sebastian Bach

* Johann Christian Bach, a classical composer and 11th youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach

At the time, before the pre-eminence of Mozart or Beethoven, and with Johann Sebastian Bach known primarily to connoisseurs of keyboard music, Haydn reached a place in music that set him above all other composers except perhaps George Frideric Handel.

The city is the birthplace of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's cousins, Johann Bernhard Bach, as well as Johann Sebastian Bach's father Johann Ambrosius Bach.

Although William was a distant parent, he shared his love of music, especially the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, with his children.

The six-part fugue from The Musical Offering, in the hand of Johann Sebastian Bach.

The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.

* 1648 – Johann Michael Bach, German composer ( d. 1694 )

The best known composers from this period are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven ; other notable names include Luigi Boccherini, Muzio Clementi, Antonio Soler, Antonio Salieri, François Joseph Gossec, Johann Stamitz, Carl Friedrich Abel, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Christoph Willibald Gluck.

* 1642 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer ( d. 1703 )

The term was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria.

Therefore it was a major landmark when in 1865 Johann Josef Loschmidt measured the size of the molecules that make up air.

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

This close approximation to the modern value of − 273. 15 ° C for the zero of the air-thermometer was further improved upon in 1779 by Johann Heinrich Lambert, who observed that − 270 ° C might be regarded as absolute cold.

From 1847 he was engaged in editing the Handwörterbuch der reinen und angewandten Chemie ( Dictionary of Pure and Applied Chemistry ) edited by Justus von Liebig, Wöhler, and Johann Christian Poggendorff, and he also wrote an important textbook.

After its introduction on Plancius's globe, the first known depiction of the constellation in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603, where it was called " Apis Indica ".

His musical theory training in harmony and counterpoint was rooted in Johann Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, which Salieri translated during each Latin lesson.

), Moritz Count von Dietrichstein, Heinrich Eduard Josef Baron von Lannoy, Ignaz Franz Baron von Mosel, Carl Czerny, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, and the eight-year-old Franz Liszt ( although it seems Liszt was not invited personally, but his teacher Czerny arranged for him to be involved ).

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

Antares B can be observed with a small telescope for a few seconds during lunar occultations while Antares itself is hidden by the Moon ; it was discovered by Johann Tobias Bürg during one such occultation on April 13, 1819.

Anthony ( Dresden, 27 December 1755 – Dresden, 6 June 1836 ), also known by his German name Anton ( full name: Anton Clemens Theodor Maria Joseph Johann Evangelista Johann Nepomuk Franz Xavier Aloys Januar ), was a King of Saxony ( 1827 – 1836 ) from the House of Wettin.

Eventually it was discovered that metallic zinc could be alloyed with copper to make brass ; a process known as speltering and by 1657 the German chemist Johann Glauber had recognised that calamine was " nothing else but unmeltable zinc " and that zinc was a " half ripe metal.

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

At the same time the new craft of printing was introduced to Basel by apprentices of Johann Gutenberg.

Johann Froben also operated his printing house in Basel and was notable for publishing works by Erasmus.

In 1544, Johann von Brugge a rich Dutch Protestant refugee was given citizenship and lived respectfully until his death in 1556 then buried with honors.

Somewhat younger than the others, though equally accomplished because of his youthful study under Mozart and his native virtuosity, was Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

The planet Neptune was discovered in Capricornus by German astronomer Johann Galle, near Deneb Algedi ( δ Capricorni ) on September 23, 1846, which is appropriate as Capricornus can be seen best from Europe at 4: 00am in September.

He was soon appointed chief of staff of Johann von Thielmann's III Corps.

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (;, ) ( 30 April 177723 February 1855 ) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.

The phlogiston theory was proposed in 1667 by Johann Joachim Becher.

* 1660 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1722 )

* 1697 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, German composer and organist ( d. 1778 )

* 1736 – Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer ( d. 1803 )

* 1666 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German organist and composer ( d. 1727 )

* 1774 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist ( b. 1720 )

* 1625 – Johann Rudolph Ahle, German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician ( d. 1673 )

Johann Pachelbel served as organist at the Prediger church in Erfurt.

* 1732 – Johann Christian Kittel, German organist, composer, and teacher ( d. 1809 )

Handel and his father travelled to Weissenfels to visit either Handel's half-brother, Carl, or nephew, Georg Christian, who was serving as valet to Duke Johann Adolf I. Handel and the duke convinced his father to allow him to take lessons in musical composition and keyboard technique from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, the organist of Halle's Marienkirche.

* 1750 – Johann Gottfried Vierling, German organist and composer ( d. 1813 )

* 1642 – Johann Friedrich Alberti, German composer and organist ( d. 1710 )

Johann Friedrich Agricola ( 4 January 1720 – 2 December 1774 ) was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music.

Johann Tobias Krebs ( 7 July 1690 – 11 February 1762 ) was a German organist and composer.

* 1696 – Johann Caspar Vogler, German organist and composer ( d. 1763 )

* 1664 – Johann Speth, German organist and composer ( d. 1719 )

* 1726 – Johann Becker, German organist, teacher, and composer ( d. 1803 )

* April 27 – Johann Adam Reinken, German organist ( d. 1722 )

* March 23 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer ( b. 1684 )

* November 20 – Johann Adam Reinken, German organist ( b. 1623 )

* Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed as chamber musician and organist at the court in Weimar, Germany.

* September 18 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer ( d. 1748 )

The schoolmaster, Johann Baptist Weiß, was a music enthusiast and respected organist.

Later that year, Weber traveled to Munich to study with the singer Johann Evangelist Wallishauser and organist Johann Nepomuk Kalcher.