Gottfried Finger
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Gottfried Finger (ca. 1660 – buried 31 August 1730), also Godfrey Finger, was a Moravian Baroque composer. Many of his compositions were for the viol; he also wrote operas. He was born in Olomouc, modern-day Czech Republic, and worked for the court of James II of England before becoming a freelance composer.
After a contest in London to set William Congreve's The Judgement of Paris as an opera, in which Finger came fourth, he left England and moved to Germany. He died in Mannheim.
[edit] External links
- Free scores by Gottfried Finger in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
- Free scores by Gottfried Finger at the International Music Score Library Project
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