3. He preferred a lucid, uncomplicated contrapuntal style that emphasized melodic and harmonic clarity
was influenced by southern German composers, such as Johann Jakob Froberger and Johann Caspar Kerll, Italians such as Girolamo Frescobaldi and Alessandro Poglietti, French composers, and the composers of the Nuremberg tradition
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