Portmann, Johann Gottlieb
(1739–1798)
JOHANN GOTTLIEB PORTMANNPORTMANN, JOHANN GOTTLIEBJOHANN GOTTLIEB PORTMANN [* 1739-† 1798] Though little remembered today, Johann Gottlieb Portmann published several informative treatises near the end of the eighteenth century. Among them, his Leichtes Lehrbuch der Harmonie, Composition und des Generalbaßes (1789) stands out for its account of contemporary perceptions concerning musical form. Portmann relied upon harmonic, rather than thematic, guideposts in determining how a movement was…