Life and Works of Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770)

Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770) has been heralded as one of the first composers of keyboard music to display ''distinctly Austrian traits''. In light of both the extent and quality of his œuvre, he was undoubtedly the single most important composer of keyboard music in Vienna in the first half of the eighteenth century. A prodigious child, he performed for the Emperor when he was around ten years old ...