Riepel, Joseph
(1709–1782)
JOSEPH RIEPELRIEPEL, JOSEPHJOSEPH RIEPEL [* 1709-† 1782] In Joseph Riepel we find a true trailblazer of the mid-eighteenth century. The startling changes in music's fabric—the organization by phrases, the techniques for expansion, the patternings of key areas—were a focus of his explorations, from which resulted embryonic formulations for concepts such as antecedent and consequent phrases, periodic structure, and motivic development. As might be expected, such novel ideas were not easily…