Koch, Heinrich Christoph
(1749–1816)
HEINRICH CHRISTOPH KOCHKOCH, HEINRICH CHRISTOPHHEINRICH CHRISTOPH KOCH [* 1749-† 1816] One of the eighteenth century's most vivid and penetrating explorations of the compositional art was undertaken by Heinrich Christoph Koch. Writing in relative obscurity and drawing upon the work of RIEPEL and SULZER, Koch established, in his Versuch einer Anleitung zur Composition (1782-93), a precise and convincing mechanism for describing the various interactions among phrase segments, phrases, periods…