Unlike the Romantic trends of continuous legato, he considered any "metrical first" (i.e. downbeat – implied or actual) to be automatically accented. Hauptmann's pupils Notes References Moritz Hauptmann: The Letters of a Leipzig Cantor (2 vols.). London: Novello, Ewer and Co., 1892. Moritz Hauptmann: The nature of harmony and metre. New York: Da Capo Press, 1991, Reprint of the ed. London, Sonnenschein, 1893. . Dale A. Jorgenson: Moritz Hauptmann of Leipzig. Studies in History and Interpretation of Music, Vol. 2. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1986. William Mason: Memories of a Musical Life. New York: The Century Company, 1902. Attribution External links 1792 births 1868 deaths German composers German music theorists Bach musicians Bach scholars Honorary Members of the Royal Philharmonic Society Musicians from Dresden Musicians from Leipzig Thomaskantors Academic staff of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig 19th-century German musicologists