Carl August Thielo

Carl August Thielo (February 7, 1707 – December 3, 1763) was a Danish composer.

theatre entrepreneur, music teacher, organist from Saxony.

He spent most of his life in Copenhagen from the 1720s onwards and founded the first opera house there in 1746.

[1][2][3] A student of Johann Gottfried Walther,[4] he was the author of a Danish treatise, Tanker og Regler fra Grunden af om Musiken, published in 1746.

[5][6] Thielo was also the German court organist under Christian VI.