Georg Andreas Sorge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Mellenbach-Glasbach, Thuringia, Germany
About Georg Andreas Sorge
- Georg Andreas Sorge (21 March 1703 in Mellenbach, Thuringia – 4 April 1778) was an organist, composer, and, most notably, theorist.
- His references to Johann Sebastian Bach show that they were friends, and he composed three fugues for organ on the name BACH (BWV Anh.
- 107, 108 and 110).
- He joined Lorenz Christoph Mizler's Corresponding Society of Musical Sciences in 1747, just a month after Bach himself. Sorge's writings on thorough-bass and harmony are very competent, and his theoretical grasp of unequal temperaments excelled even that of J.
- G.
- Neidhardt (though still taking ?1/12 comma as an indivisible unit of measure.
- He cited Bach as 'witness' that regular ?1/6-comma meantone temperament was inadequate to 'modern' harmony, and he dismissed Johann Philipp Kirnberger's schemes of temperament as 'no good'.
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