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Daniel Gottlob Türk

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12 Leichte Klaviersonaten120 Handstücke für angehende Klavierspieler120 Tonstücke für 4 Hände150 Zwey- und vierhändige Clavierstücke18 Kleine Klaviersonaten6 Keyboard Sonatas, Sammlung 1Allegro non troppo in C majorAnweisung zum GeneralbaßspielenDie Hirten bey der Krippe zu BethlehemKlavierschuleKlaviersonaten, größtenteils für KennerLieder und Gedichte aus dem SiegwartPiano Sonata in A major, HedT 98.2.3Prelude in A minorPrelude in C majorSpinnerliedSymphony in B-flat major, TüWV II/1Übungsstück in E minorVon den wichtigsten Pflichten eines Organisten
Wikipedia
Daniel Gottlob Türk (10 August 1750 – 26 August 1813) was a German composer, organist, and music professor of the Classical period.
Born in Claußnitz, Saxony, Türk studied organ under his father and later under Johann Adam Hiller. It was Hiller who recommended Türk for his first professional position at Halle University, in Halle, Germany. On 18 April 1779 Halle University granted Türk's request to begin lecturing on music theory, making him the University's "Director of Music." This appointment made Türk the second university music director in Germany. While at Halle, Türk published his treatise On the Role of the Organist in Worship which is still occasionally reprinted.
Several of Türk's dances and minuets for the piano are still popular today. He wrote 18 sonatas. His most notable contribution to the classical music canon is the Klavierschule, a teaching guide for the keyboard. He also wrote a cantata, Die Hirten bey der Krippe zu Bethlehem (The Shepherds of Bethlehem) (1782), and some organ pieces and other choral works still in manuscript.
In 1783 he married Johanna Dorothea Raisin Schimmelpfennig, by whom he had two children. He was a member of the Halle Masonic Lodge, "Zu den drei Degen" ("one of the three swords"), along with Carl Loewe. In 1813, he fell ill and died of liver disease.
Türk was first taught how to play by his father, and later studied with J.S. Bach pupil Gottfried August Homilius in Dresden. Türk was a gifted teacher in his own right, with students such as Hermann Uber, Karl Traugott Zeuner, Johann Friedrich Nauer and Carl Loewe.
Türk's theoretical and didactic works include;