Johann Friedrich Rochlitz
1769
– 1842
Personal details
Johann Friedrich Rochlitz was a composer, dramatist and music writer from Leipzig. In 1798, he founded the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung (General Music Newspaper) and wrote numerous articles for it. Rochlitz became acquainted with many important figures of the time, including Goethe, Schiller, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Wieland, Beethoven and Schubert, who also set three of Rochlitz's poems to music.
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