A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Bellermann, Constantin

BELLERMANN, Constantin, born at Erfurt, 1696, rector of Münden, a composer of operas and oratorios, and an extraordinary performer on the lute. His most important work is 'Programma in quo Parnassus Musarum voce, fidibus, tibiisque resonans, sive musices divinae artis laudes diversae species singulares effectus atque primarii autores succincte enarrantur' (Erfurt, 1743), an analysis of which is given by Mitzler in his 'Bibliothek,' vol. iii. He died at Münden in 1763.

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