John Henry Griesbach

(1798-1875)

"Chalk Cliffs on Rugen" (1818), oil on canvas, 90.5 x 71 cm, of the painter Caspar David Friedrich, contemporary of Griesbach (Stiftung Oskar Reinhart)

The musician John Henry Griesbach was born in Windsor on the 20th June 1798, the same year of the composers Andries, Batton, Costa, Dessauer, Gassner, Gläser, Linley, Lvov, Reissiger. He died in Londra on the 9th Jenuary 1875