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Johann Wilhelm Hertel~~~~2397~2398~~

Hertel blurb 2~Johann Wilhelm Hertel (1727-1799) was born into a musical family. Both his father and his grandfather were important musicians in their own right. Much influenced by the composers of the Berlin school (being a violinist and keyboard player, he was particularly impressed by C. P. E. Bach, Franz Benda and Johann Gottlieb Graun), Hertel became Kapellmeister to the court at Schwerin in 1754, and held the post until his death.

The Brussels Conservatory Library has one of the largest collections of Hertel's manuscripts and among them is a set of six fine keyboard sonatas. They are probably the six he listed in a catalogue of his own works as "six sonatas prepared for publication". Each is in three movements (in the fast-slow-fast pattern) and are of moderate difficulty.

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Sonatas blurb~~~~2397~2406~~

Sonata in C minor~~~~2397~4423~~

Sonata in C~~~~2397~4424~~

Sonata in F minor~~~~2397~4425~~

Sonata in F~~~~2397~4426~~

Sonata in A minor~~~~2397~4427~~

Sonata in A~~~~2397~4428~~

Serenata~~~~2397~3691~~

Sinfonia in D~~~~2397~3690~~

Violin concerto in D minor~~~~2397~4431~~