Ebner, Wolfgang
(1612–1665)
WOLFGANG EBNEREBNER, WOLFGANGWOLFGANG EBNER [* 1612-† 1665] By the middle of the seventeenth century, figured bass had become a standard component of musical scores, though the extent to which the appropriate figures were actually written in was quite variable. Wolfgang Ebner created a brief listing of fifteen rules, with examples, to assist performers in this art, while Johann Andreas HERBST ensured a wider circulation for them by translating Ebner's Latin into German and printing the result…