Johann Paul Auer, who was born at Nuremberg in 1636, studied from 1654 to 1658 under Georg Christoph Eimmart at Ratisbon. In 1660 he went to Venice, and there received instructions from Pietro Liberi. He then went to Rome, where he stayed upwards of four years, and thence through Turin and Lyons to Paris, and so home to Nuremberg in 1670. He died in 1687. Auer painted historical, landscape, and genre pictures, besides portraits of many famous individuals, for which he was very celebrated.
Johann Pachelbel was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era.
Johann Christoph Denner was a German woodwind instrument maker of the Baroque era, to whom the invention of the clarinet is attributed.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Bryan, Michael (1886). "Auer, Johann Paul". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.  | This article about a German painter is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
