Türk, Daniel Gottlob
(1756–1813)
DANIEL GOTTLOB TÜRKTÜRK, DANIEL GOTTLOBDANIEL GOTTLOB TÜRK [* 1756-† 1813] Daniel Gottlob Türk's Klavierschule (1789) was, for late eighteenth-century readers, an unsurpassed source of practical wisdom concerning the art of playing the clavichord and a repository of useful information of general interest—including discussions of technical terms used in music, summaries of the characteristics which define various categories of composition (overture, serenade, individual dance movements, etc.)…