Frédéric-Adolphe-Maximilien-Gustave Salvemini de Castillon (; 22 September 1747 in

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– 27 January 1814 in

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), anglicized as Frederick Salvemini de Castillon, was a Swiss-born

music theorist Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. '' The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the " rudiments", that ...

. He was born to Italian professor Giovanni Francesco Salvemini di Castiglione, a teacher of

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and

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

at the

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and the Berlin Academy. Frederick kept the name ''di Castiglione'', referring to his father's natal town of Castiglione in Tuscany, which had been gallicized to ''de Castillon''. Also a member of the Berlin Academy, Castillon published a large volume of ''Research of the Beauty of Applied Music to Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm''. Like his father, Castillon contributed to the creation of the by

Diderot Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during t ...

and

D'Alembert Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert ( ; ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanics, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the ''E ...

; the accurate creation of articles in the domain of applied arts of music theory, musical instruments and its history paved the way to his place in the world of music historians.

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