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2020-06-02 19:04:55
Recreating The Acoustic J.S. Bach Worked In
“As a composer, Bach would have been highly attuned to the effects of a church’s acoustics on the performance of music. He was known, for example, to have preferred composing for the Thomaskirche over Leipzig’s Nikolaikirche because he deemed it superior for choral music. Supported by an NEH grant and state-of-the-art computational methods, an interdisciplinary […]
2018-03-19 03:26:14
Bach and Richter, 2018
March 19, 2018. Bach and Richter. In two days we’ll celebrate Johann Sebastian Bach’s 333rd birthday. We’ve written about Bach’s early years in Leipzig (here and here), the years that were dedicated to his work as the Kantor at Tomasschule, the school of the St. Thomas church, wherehe also served as the choir director. All along Bach was the music director of two other important churches in the city, St. Nicholas church (Nikolaikirche) and Paulinerkirche, the University church. His duties included writing music for Sunday services, and in the early Leipzig years he produced an astonishing number of cantatas, more than 300 altogether, of which 200 plus are extant. He also wrote several Passions, of which the St. John’s and St. Matthew survive. By the year 1729 the accumulated volume of compositions was such that he could allow himself to either perform the old music, or reuse pre-existing material, creating […]
2016-11-17 04:21:08
Johann Sebastian Bach From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the Baroque composer. For his grandson of the same name, see Johann Sebastian Bach (painter) . For other uses of Bach, see Bach (disambiguation) . Johann Sebastian Bach Portrait of Bach, aged 61, by E. G. Haussmann , 1748 Born 21 March 1685 (O.S.) 31 March 1685 (N.S.) Eisenach Died 28 July 1750 (aged 65) Leipzig Works List of compositions Signature Johann Sebastian Bach[a] (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of theBaroque period . He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint , harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation […]
2015-12-20 16:54:00
Kurt Masur has died, aged 88. Masur was much, much more than a conductor. He transformed his city, his nation and the world. Would Germany be united today without the movement that led to the fall of thge Berlin Wall ? Would the Iron Curtain still hold sway ? The cataclysmic eents of 1989 only 26 years ago, but seem to have been forgotten, by too many. To truly honoure Masur, we need to appreciate Masur the man, and what shaped him. Masur was born in Brieg (Bryzg) in Lower Silesia, once part of Germany, now part of Poland. That might mean nothing, but it's this background of war, ethnic cleansing and exile affects people. Christoph Eschenbach was traumatized, but he was only 5. Masur, who was 18, could understand. Masur's career was built on the rock solid foundations of German Democratic Republic music-making. […]