Bernhard, Christoph
(1628–1692)
CHRISTOPH BERNHARDBERNHARD, CHRISTOPHCHRISTOPH BERNHARD [* 1628-† 1692] Christoph Bernhard, one of the more illuminating authors of the seventeenth century, wrote several treatises which remained unpublished during his lifetime. Fortunately his manuscripts were copied and circulated, though certainly not as widely as published volumes would have been. As a subordinate of Schütz at Dresden and visitor to Italy, Bernhard was exposed to the best of contemporary composition. Though scholars today…