Schroeter

(shr4-ter), Chris toph Gott- lieb, orgt. theorist b. Hohenstem, Saxony, Aug. 19, 1699; d. Nordhausen, Nov., 1782. Pupil at Kreuzschule, Dresden, student of theology at Leipzig; copyist for Lotti 1717; after travel in Germany and England, lectured at Jena Univ.; orgt. at Mmden, after 1732 at Nordhausen; composed seven sets of cantatas for church year, other church music; wrote on general ba (“ first to represent major and minor triads as sole fundamental chords ”) and description of hammer action for keyed instruments, on which invention of pf. is based; claims this invention m work published 1763, ten years after death of Silbermann, who is usually supposed to have established invention of Cris to for i.