Kellner, David
(1670–1748)
DAVID KELLNERKELLNER, DAVIDDAVID KELLNER [* ca. 1670-† 1748] A brief, popular, and largely derivative manual on figured bass came into being when David Kellner published, in 1732, Treulicher Unterricht im General-Baß. Swedish, Dutch, and, eventually, Russian translations followed, making Kellner's work especially appealing to various segments of the European populace. Unlike HEINICHEN's massive General-Bass in der Composition, published just four years earlier, Kellner's book, at about a tenth…