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Johann Christian Fischer

Born: 1733, Germany

Died: 29th April 1800, London

Nationality: German

Johann Christian Fischer was a German composer and oboist, one of the best-known oboe soloists in Europe during the 1770s.

Employed as a music copyist and theatre director for the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Ludwigslust, Fischer is now credited with the unique Symphony with Eight Obbligato Timpani, formerly attributed to Johann Wilhelm Hertel, court composer at Schwerin. He spent some time in Dresden, but left after the Prussian occupation in the Seven Years' War for extensive concertizing tours, ending in London, where he was active as a performer, composer, and a teacher, and introduced the Continental narrow-bore model of oboe that replaced the bright and penetrating straight-topped English type. In London Fischer joined the largely German "Queen's Band" of George III's German Queen, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Fischer

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