Carl Friedrich Zelter

During his career, he composed about two hundred lieder, as well as cantatas, a viola concerto (performed as early as 1779)[2] and piano music.

This epochal event sparked a general re-evaluation and revival of Bach's works, which were then largely forgotten and regarded as old-fashioned and beyond resuscitation.

Mendelssohn had hoped to succeed Zelter on the latter's death as leader of the Singakademie, but the post went instead to Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen.

Zelter was married to Julie Pappritz in 1796, one year after his first wife, Sophie Eleonora Flöricke, née Kappel, had died.

[citation needed] The novelist Elizabeth Sara Sheppard portrayed Zelter as the character Aronach in her 1853 novel Charles Auchester.