A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Beutler, Benjamin

BEUTLER, Benjamin, born at Mühlhausen near Erfurt 1793; died there 1837; a friend of Forkel, organist of the Marienkirche, and founder of a choral society for men's voices at Mühlhausen (1830). He organised musical festivals in his native town, and established choral practice in the schools, publishing for their use a collection of 'Choral-melodieen für das Mühlhausen Gesangbuch' (Mühlhausen, 1834).