Joseph Friedrich Bernhard Caspar Majer

Joseph Friedrich Bernhard Caspar Majer (16 October 1689 in Schwäbisch Hall – 22 May 1768 in Schwäbisch Hall), was a German musician from the beginning of the 18th century, a "significant writer" on music in the late Baroque era.

[1] He was a singer at Schwäbisch Hall, an organist and cantor at St. Katharina, and author of two books, music methods: His second book was written to acquaint would-be musicians with information to help them learn to play instruments.

The instruments included: recorder, chalumeau, transverse flute, 3-keyed bassoon, cornett, flageolet, and 2-keyed clarinet, clarion trumpet, tenor and bass trombone, alto and quint trombone, horn, lute, "harp" or psaltery, guitar, timpani, violin, viola, cello, viola de gamba and viola d'amore.

[3][4] What made him to be considered a significant writer was the annotations that he made in his personal copy of Museum musicum theoreticalo-practicum.

[1] That city reside in the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart.