Carl August Thielo

Carl August Thielo (February 7, 1707 – December 3, 1763) was a Danish composer. theatre entrepreneur, music teacher, organist from Saxony. He spent most of his life in Copenhagen from the 1720s onwards and founded the first opera house there in 1746.
A student of Johann Gottfried Walther, he was the author of a Danish treatise, "Tanker og Regler fra Grunden af om Musiken", published in 1746. Thielo was also the German court organist under Christian VI. He was the father of Caroline Thielo.