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Raphael Georg Kiesewetter (29 August 1773 - 1 January 1850) was an important and prolific scholar og Music history. His large collection of musical books and scores is still house in the Austrian national library.
Tilling the Field
Raphael Georg Kiesewetter,
Some will know as a begetter
Of modern musicology.
The many volumes that resulted
Are now no longer much consulted,
The victims of chronology.
But though his work was superseded
He did what at the time was needed,
And owes us no apology.
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