Johann Gottlob Breitkopf Improves Movable Type for Music

1754 to 1755
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portrait of Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf
Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf
Between 1754 and 1755 music publisher Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf of Leipzig improved the printing of sheet music with the invention of movable musical types that were superior to preceding musical typography in the form of the notes and the accessary symbols, as well as their accurate adjustment with the lines.

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