Son of a cler­gy­man, Näge­li has been called the man who taught Switz­er­land to sing. He was vir­tu­al­ly a na­tion­al he­ro of pop­u­lar mu­sic and folk sing­ing; his most pop­u­lar song, still sung in beer tents the world over, is Freut euch des Leb­ens (1791). Nägeli helped found sev­er­al chor­al so­ci­e­ties, and fre­quent­ly cor­res­pond­ed with Fried­rich Sil­cher, who great­ly ad­mired him. Nägeli’s works in­clude:

• Gesangsbildung­lehre nach Pes­ta­lozzi­schen Grund­sätz­en, 1810

• Hustad, p. 292
• Nutter, p. 462
• Randel, p. 627

1. Dennis
2. Leni
3. Naomi
4. Zürich