BIOGRAPHY OF ELONS JOHANN ADAM HILLERS

In the course of the century, short biographies of composers have appeared in reference works such as
Johann Adam Hiller's biography of recently renowned music scholars and composers , the historical-
biographical lexicon of composer Ernst Ludwig Gerber and the Friedrich Manual of Karl Gottlieb's
literary-history Hirsching The descriptions in such biographical articles are almost exclusively based on
"Necrologist", often copied with errors.

Occasionally Bach also appears in other writings, for example in Johann Friedrich Köhler's
[wikisource:de] manuscript on the history of the Leipzig schools from 1776, which gives a brief account
of Bach's dispute with Johann August Ernesti, head of the "Saint Thomas" school. Bach is cited in print as
the teacher of several later generations of musicians, such as Christoph Nichelmann.