TÜRK, Daniel Gottlieb
(1756–1813)> COMP. · WRITER
TÜRK (Daniel Gottlieb). German comp. and writer, Claussnitz, near Chemnitz, Aug. 10, 1756. S. under Homilius. Music-director of Halle University, 1779; and org. of ch. of Notre Dame, Halle, 1787. Halle, Aug. 26, 1813. Author of a Clavierschule... 1789, 4to, of which an English translation exists as “A Treatise on the Pianoforte, from the German of D. G. Türk, by C. G. Vaunberger, Lond., 1804, 8vo. Comp. cantatas, sonatas for Pf., and a large number of songs.