Carl Ferdinand Becker

Karl Ferdinand Becker (17 July 1804 Leipzig – 26 October 1877 Plagwitz section of Leipzig), was a German writer on music, composer and an organist.

He attended the Thomasschule in Leipzig in his early years, where his teachers Johann Gottfried Schicht and Friedrich Schneider trained him in music.

His works on the history of music place him in the same rank with Raphael Georg Kiesewetter and Carl von Winterfeld.

Among his works are: He was among the most active contributors to Robert Schumann's Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.

Other journals he contributed to were Caecilia (edited by Gottfried Weber), Eufonia, Tageblatt, and Zeitgenossen.