Andreas Werckmeister occupation musicologist
Theoretical works
Werckmeister is best known today as a theorist, in particular through his writings Musicae mathematicae hodegus curiosus... (1687) and Musikalische Temperatur (1691), in which he described a system of what we would now refer to as well temperament (named after Bach's opus "The Well-Tempered Clavier") now known as Werckmeister temperament.
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