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the German wikipedia calls him Carl, he never used any other spelling but Carl throughout his life. So why Karl in English?
Dunnhaupt 22:38, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Good question (the answer surely isn't modern use as reflected in Google hits and modern references, say, which I think are less important for such a question anyway and which give the answer that "Karl Friedrich Abel" receives half as many hits - 14,500 - as "Carl Friedrich Abel" anyway, so even if that were a good answer it would be the wrong one.) Schissel | Sound the Note! 17:12, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Walter Knape, who devoted practically his entire life to Abel (complete edition of the scores, catalogue raisonné, many other publications on Abel, e.g. "Walter Knape: Karl (sic!) Friedrich Abel, Leben und Werk eines frühklassischen Komponisten, Bremen 1973") always wrote Abel's name with K. This spelling has therefore survived in many places to this day. Guentersberg (talk) 17:46, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Recently the file File:Karl Friedrich Abel by Thomas Gainsborough.jpg (right) was uploaded and it appears to be relevant to this article and not currently used by it. If you're interested and think it would be a useful addition, please feel free to include it. Dcoetzee 08:50, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
More than 10 years later, I have reached the same conclusion. The image of Abel with his viola da gamba should be first, and the other Gainsborough portrait later in the article. could someone with the experience to do so please add this image? Humphrey Tribble (talk) 23:35, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
And again more than a year later I took the image to the article, however in the second position, because the image traditionally identifying him show both instrument and composing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:16, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
at least one inaccuracy, probably more. WK 42 is for oboe, violin and cello and orchestra, not oboe quartet (oboe, violin, viola, cello) and orchestra, to judge from the parts as described at RISM and uploaded to IMSLP. Schissel | Sound the Note! 21:14, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
