Türk, Daniel Gottlob (1750–1813)

German theorist and composer. He settled at Halle in 1776 and became a central figure in the musical life of the town. He was famous as a teacher, and wrote treatises on organ and clavier playing, thorough-bass, and temperament.

He studied under his father and under Gottfried Homilius at Dresden. Later he went to Leipzig University, where he became a pupil and friend of Johann Hiller, who procured him appointments as violinist at the Opera and the orchestral concerts. In 1776 he became organist at St Ulrich's Church at Halle, in 1779 music director of the university, and in 1787 organist at the Church of Our Lady.

Works Opera Pyramus und Thisbe (1784).

Choral cantata Die Hirten bei der Krippe zu Bethlehem (1782).

Works for piano piano sonatas and pieces.