A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Tappert, Wilhelm

by George Grove

TAPPERT, Wilhelm, German critic and writer on music, born Feb. 19, 1830, at Ober-Thomaswaldau in Silesia; began life as a school-master, but in 1856 adopted music, under Dehn for theory and Kullak for practice. Since that time he has resided in Berlin, where he is well known as a teacher and musical writer, and an able and enthusiastic partisan of Wagner. He was a teacher in Tausig's school for higher PF.-playing. His 'Wagner Lexicon' (1877) contains a collection of all the abuse that has been lavished on that composer and his friends—a useless and even mischievous labour. Much more important are his researches into ancient Tablatures, on which it is to be hoped he will soon publish something. From 1876–80 he edited the 'Allgemeine Deutsche Musikzeitung.' He is a contributor to the 'Musikalisches Wochenblatt' and has published several pamphlets, especially one on consecutive fifths, 'Das Verbot von Quintenparallelen' (1869).

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