Hans Georg Nägeli

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Hans Georg Nägeli (born Wetzikon, Switzerland, May 26, 1773 - Zurich, December 26, 1836) was a composer and music publisher.

Nägeli studied under his father as a child, and then opened a private music shop and publishing firm in the 1790s. In 1803 he began publishing the Repertoire des Clavecinistes, which included the first editions of keyboard pieces by composer such as Muzio Clementi, Johann Baptist Cramer, and Ludwig van Beethoven. He founded two singing societies (Sängervereinen) in Zurich, in addition to writing profusely on music theory and aesthetics, as well as introductory treatises for students.

Much of Nägeli's compositional output consists of keyboard works and songs.

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• Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard, 1996, p. 627.