Previous posts for November 30th are here: Carl Loewe (2019), Allan Sherman (2020), Charles-Valentin Alkan (2021), Weston Noble (2022), and Clay Aiken (2023)
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Andreas Werckmeister (30 November 1645 – 26 October 1706) was a German organist, music theorist, and composer , He was responsible for a temperament (tuning system) that resulted in all tonalities sounding acceptable on the keyboard.
Pleading the Fifths
This tuning uses mostly pure (perfect) fifths, as in Pythagorean tuning, but each of the fifths C-G, G-D, D-A and B-F♯ is made smaller, i.e. tempered by 1/4 comma. – s.v. “Werckmeister temperament“, in Microtonal Encyclopedia (microtonal.miraheze.org)
There were those who maligned and impugned
The way that Herr Werckmeister tuned;
His fifths were adjusted
Leaving purists disgusted
By intervals painfully pruned.
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