A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Dommer, Arrey von

DOMMER, Arrey von, born Feb. 9, 1828, at Dantzig, was brought up to theology, but in 1851 went to Leipzig and learnt composition from Richter and Lobe. After some time passed as a teacher of music, he forsook Leipzig for Hamburg, where he spent seven years as a musical critic and correspondent, and in 1873 was made secretary to the Hamburg city library, a post which he still holds (1887). In 1865 he published an enlarged edition of H. C. Koch's Musikalisches Lexicon of 1802, which is a sterling work, perhaps a little too sternly condensed. Besides this his Handbook of Musical History (1867, 2nd ed. 1878) is highly spoken of by Riemann, from whom the above is chiefly obtained.

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