Arrey von Dommer (9 February 1828 – 18 February 1905) was a German music critic, librarian and music historian. His articles about musicians appear in the ''

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''.

Life

Dommer was born in Danzig (now

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

in Poland) in 1828. He studied composition with

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and

Ernst Richter Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter (24 October 18089 April 1879), was a German musical theorist and composer, born at Großschönau, Saxony. He first studied music at Zittau, and afterwards at Leipzig, where he attained so high a reputation that in ...

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, and afterwards was a music teacher. In 1863 he moved to

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, where he was a music critic and from 1873 librarian in the city library. Dadelsen, Georg von
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''

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'', 1959. He published in 1865 an enlarged edition of

Heinrich Christoph Koch Heinrich Christoph Koch (10 October 1749 – 19 March 1816) was a German music theorist, musical lexicographer and composer. In his lifetime, his music dictionary was widely distributed in Germany and Denmark; today his theory of form and syntax ...

's 1802 reference work on music, the ''Musikalische Lexikon''. Articles from Dommer's edition are included in the ''

''. In 1868 he published the ''Handbuch der Musikgeschichte, von den ersten Anfängen bis zum Tode Beethovens'' ("Handbook of the history of music, from the first beginnings up to the death of Beethoven"). An edition by

Arnold Schering Arnold Schering (2 April 1877 in Breslau, German Empire – 7 March 1941 in Berlin) was a German musicologist. He grew up in Dresden as the son of an art publisher. He learned violin at the from which he graduated in 1896. Thereafter he studied v ...

was published in 1914. After retirement in 1889 Dommer moved to

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximate ...

; he died in

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in 1905.

References

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