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German violinist
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2019-01-22 14:25:42
German Violinist August Wilhelmj Died On This Day in 1908 [ON-THIS-DAY]
German violin virtuoso August Wilhelmj died on this day in 1908, 111 years ago – aged 62. Wilhelmj was regarded as one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of the 19th Century – often billed as the ‘German Paganini’. He is remembered in history for his popular violin arrangement of the 2nd movement of J.S. Bach’s […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2018-09-21 15:07:22
German Violinist August Wilhelmj Born On This Day in 1845 [ON-THIS-DAY]
German violinist August Wilhelmj was born on this day in 1845 – 173 years ago. A student of Ferdinand David, Wilhelmj was widely regarded as one of the eminent virtuosi of the early 19th Century – often billed as the ‘German Paganini’. He is remembered today predominantly for his famous arrangement of Bach’s ‘Air on […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2018-01-23 04:15:42
German violinist August Wilhelmj died on this day in 1908, 110 years ago – aged 62. Wilhelmj was regarded as one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of the 19th Century – often billed as the ‘German Paganini’. He is remembered in history for his popular violin arrangement of the 2nd movement of J.S. Bach’s […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2015-08-19 13:46:02
I don’t know if I’ve ever featured any of Bach’s pieces for Wednesday Music. I don’t think I have. That’s about to change, because today’s piece is Johan Sebastian Bach’s Air on the G String, BWV 1068. Here’s a bit about the piece. Bach wrote Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, possibly between 1717 and 1723 (though some scholars thing it was written later). In the nineteenth century, violinist August Wilhelmj arranged the second movement of this piece so that he could play it on one string of his violin: the G string (this is the lowest string). So even though this piece is famous, Bach didn’t really intend for it to be played this way. To be precise, Wilhelmj transposed the melody from D major to C major, then moved it down one octave. The music nerd in me couldn’t resist putting that fact in here! This piece […]
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