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2021-10-04 13:57:01
Johann Joseph Fux
This Week in Classical Music: October 4, 2021. Johann Joseph Fux. The great German composer of the early baroque, Heinrich Schütz was born this week in Köstritz, a town in Thuringia, on October 8th of 1585 (we’ve written about him here and here). Also, Giuseppe Verdi was born on October 9th of 1813 and Camille Saint-Saëns, on the same day in 1835. Both are very popular (Verdi being a much bigger talent), and we’ve featured them many times. One composer who somehow escaped our attention is another German, Johann Joseph Fux. While Schütz was enormously influential as composer, Fux is more famous for his theoretical opus Gradus ad Parnassum (Steps to Mount Parnassus). It shouldn’t be confused with Carl Czerny’s Gradus ad Parnassum, a collection of study piano pieces familiar to most pianists. Fux’s Gradus is completely a different thing, and we’ll get to it in a minute. Fux was […]
2019-12-23 14:43:04
Christmas music of the Late Renaissance, 2019
This Week in Classical Music: December 23, 2019. Christmas music of the Late Renaissance. Last year we celebrated Christmas with the music of three giants of the High Renaissance: Orlando di Lasso, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Tomás Luis de Victoria. This year we’re doing something similar but focusing on the composers that worked at the end of the period, with some of them forming the early phases of the Baroque. The great city of Venice is another theme that is common to our composers. Giovanni Gabrieli, the oldest of the four, was born either in 1554 or in 1557 and lived most of his life in Venice. He only left the city to study with Orlando di Lasso who at that time was employed at the court of Duke Albrecht V in Munich. Soon after returning to Venice, Gabrieli became the chief organist at St. Mark’s basilica. Gabrieli brilliantly […]
2015-11-06 14:56:03
In 1672 Heinrich Schütz died at age 87 in Dresden. In 1717 Johann Sebastian Bach was temporarily imprisoned by his employer, Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Weimar, who was upset that Bach had taken another post (with Prince Leopold of Coethen) without first securing the Duke’s permission to do so. In 1795 Jiri Antonin (Georg Anton) Benda died at age 73 in Köstritz. Adolphe Sax In 1814 Adolphe Sax was born in Dinant. He invented the saxophone around 1840, and was granted a 15-year patent in 1846. While his first name was Antoine, he was referred to as Adolphe from childhood. His father and mother were instrument designers themselves, who made several changes to the design of the horn. Adolphe began to make his own instruments at an early age, entering two of his flutes and a clarinet into a competition at the age of 15. He subsequently […]
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