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Adam Falkenhagen

Born: 26th April 1697, Grossdalzig, Zwenkau, Germany

Died: 6th October 1754, Bayreuth, Germany

Nationality: German

Adam Falckenhagen was a German lutenist and composer of the Baroque period.

He was born in Groß-Dölzig, near Leipzig in Saxony, but spent the later part of his life in Bayreuth. He wrote tuneful music which is still played today on lute and guitar. Much of this music survives in the Bavarian State Library, Munich.

He received his first musical instruction in the village of Knauthain, the native home of Johann Christian Weyrauch.

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