Johann Caspar Horn or Kaspar (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1640s) was a German

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

, physician and musician. At

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

he was connected with

Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He ...

Works, editions and recordings

* Geistliche Harmonien, Wintertheil (Dresden, 1680) * Geistliche Harmonien, Sommertheil (Dresden, 1681) * Parergon musicum, oder Musicalisches Neben-Werck (Leipzig. 1663-76) Essentials in Music History p188

Thomas Tapper Thomas Tapper (28 January 1864 – 24 February 1958) was a musician, composer, lecturer, writer, teacher, and editor, who was born in Canton, Massachusetts, and studied music at the American College of Musicians. He wrote many books on music, mo ...

, Percy Goetschius - 2001 - "In the same year Johann Caspar Horn's famous Parergon musicum was published, consisting of dances for two choruses, with violins, flutes, cornets, shawms, and the basso continuo (probably played, as was quite universal, ..."

References

17th-century German musicians German Baroque composers German male classical composers Physicians from Leipzig Pupils of Heinrich Schütz 17th-century male musicians {{Germany-composer-stub