A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Flemming, Friedrich

by J. A. Fuller-Maitland

FLEMMING, Friedrich Ferdinand, born Feb. 28, 1778, at Neuhausen in Saxony, studied medicine at Wittenberg from 1796 to 1800, and subsequently at Jena, Vienna and Triest. He practised in Berlin, where he took a keen interest in all musical matters, composing many part-songs, especially for male voices, for the society founded by Zelter. His claim to notice in this Dictionary is based upon his excellent setting of Horace's ode beginning 'Integer vitae,' which is still universally popular in English schools and universities, as well as in Germany. The curious resemblance in style and structure between this and Webbe's 'Glorious Apollo' is certainly fortuitous, since the latter was written in 1787, and Flemming can hardly have become acquainted with the Englishman's work.

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