Daniel Eberlin

Who was Daniel Eberlin?

Daniel Eberlin was a German Baroque composer and Kapellmeister.

Eberlin had a vagrant lifestyle. After a brief military career, he worked as a librarian in his hometown, Nuremberg. Later he became Kapellmeister at the Eisenach court. From 1713 he lived at Kassel, where he died.

Eberlin wrote cantatas for church services and a set of trio sonatas. However, only few of his works are preserved. One of his pupils was Georg von Bertouch, a German-born composer and officer who dwelt during most of his adult life in Norway. Eberlin is primarily remembered as Georg Philipp Telemann's father-in-law. Allegedly, he proposed two thousand different scordaturas for the violin.