Buttstett, Johann Heinrich
(1666–1727)
JOHANN HEINRICH BUTTSTETTBUTTSTETT, JOHANN HEINRICHJOHANN HEINRICH BUTTSTETT [* 1666-† 1727] When the young Johann MATTHESON completed Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre (1713), his first published work on theory, he must have realized that within the German lands there resided numerous musicians who would not appreciate his cosmopolitan, modern, and secular attitude towards music. Johann Heinrich Buttstett, fifteen years MATTHESON's senior and an adherent of WERCKMEISTER's theological-theoretical…