Wilhelm Tappert

Wilhelm Tappert (19 February 1830 – 27 October 1907) was a German composer and music writer.

Born in Ober-Thomaswaldau in the Province of Silesia, Tappert trained as a school teacher and made musical studies under Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn and Adolph Kullak in Berlin from 1856-1858.

He settled there in 1866 and worked as a music critic and teacher.

From 1876 until 1880, Tappert edited the Allgemeine deutsche Musikzeitung.

[1] Tappert published music theoretical writings as well as piano pieces, songs, arrangements of old German songs with piano accompaniment and a selection of old lute pieces.