Baumbach, Friedrich August

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Baumbach, Friedrich August

Baumbach, Friedrich August, German composer and writer on music; b. Gotha (baptized), Sept. 12, 1753; d. Leipzig, Nov. 30, 1813. He was active as a singer, and then as a violinist and music director in Hamburg (1777–89). After serving as music director of the new Riga theater (1782–83), he settled in Leipzig in 1790 and wrote the articles on music for J. Grohmann’s Kurzege-fasstes Handwörterbuch über die schönen Künste (1794). He composed various chamber and vocal works.

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