Johann Friedrich Daube

Johann Friedrich Daube (1730 – 19 September 1797) was a German musician and music theorist. Daube was born in Hesse, and his early career was as a chamber musician at Stuttgart in the court orchestra of Württemberg. From about 1760 he was councillor and secretary of the Augsburg Academy of Fine Arts and Science; he later lived in Vienna, where he died in 1797.