Friedrich Hartmann Graf by Heinrich Eduard von Wintter

Friedrich Hartmann Graf (23 August 1727 – 19 August 1795) was a German flautist and

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Biography

Graf was born 23 August 1727 in Rudolstadt. He was trained by his father Johann Graf and then served as a drummer in a Dutch army regiment where he was taken as a prisoner of war by the English. After he returned in 1759 he became a flautist and conductor in Hamburg for five years. During that time he toured England, the Dutch Republic, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. He was then made first flautist by his brother

Christian Ernst Graf Christian Ernst Friedrich Graf ( Rudolstadt, 30 June 1723 – The Hague, 17 July 1804) was a Dutch Kapellmeister (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the ...

who led the chapel of the

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's court in The Hague. Later he became the music director of all Protestant churches, and cantor of the school of St. Anna in Augsburg where he founded a civil society concert in 1779. Here he also met Mozart. Graf died 19 August 1795 in Augsburg. {{DEFAULTSORT:Graf, Friedrich Hartmann 1727 births 1795 deaths German Classical-period composers German classical flautists 18th-century classical composers German male classical composers 18th-century German composers 18th-century German male musicians