Karl Friedrich Abel was born in 1725 in Germany at a place called Cothen, who studied at first under his father a Christian Ferdinand Abel who played the Violin and viola da gamba, Abel preferred the viola da gamba and was a great player of the instrument and composed many pieces for it. When his father died in 1737, Able then went and studied under the great J.S.Bach at the Leipzig Thomasschule for around 10 years until 1758.

He then followed in the footsteps of other great German composers like handel, but I found that does not seem the case as the Seven Years War was tearing germany apart at the time and Abel fled first to France and then went onto England in around 1758, in 1759 Abel held his first concert, which lead to him becoming in the same year the chamber musician of Queen Charlotte.