Joseph Friedrich Bernhard Caspar Majer

Museum Musicum Theoretico-Practicum, by Joseph Friedrich Bernhard Caspar Majer. Title page.

Joseph Friedrich Bernhard Caspar Majer (16 October 1689, Schwäbisch Hall – 22 May 1768, Schwäbisch Hall), was a German musician from the beginning of the 18th century, a "significant writer" on music in the late Baroque era.

He was a singer at Schwäbisch Hall, an organist and cantor at St. Katharina, and author of two books, music methods:

1718, Hodegus musicus. Teaches singing. A later edition published Schwäbisch Hall by Georg M. Majer, 1741.

1732, Museum musicum theoretico-practicum. The author advertised on the title page that readers would learn how to thoroughly learn both vocal and instrumental music) (1732). A second edition came out in 1741.

What made him to be considered a significant writer was the annotations that he made in his personal copy of Museum musicum theoreticalo-practicum. That city reside in the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart.