Assisting to a Baroque Orchestra event, it’s a nice experience, which allows you to get closer to what is music, I have to address with greater motivation to understand and enjoy different forms of musical expression. The work presented containing different elements, which managed to produce a…
Richard Wagner was a great composer of music that shaped history as we know it. His music was full of passion and despite his many characteristic flaws, he was able to convey great emotion and love in his music. Wagner composed 13 operas with his most famous works like Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Parsifal, and Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg(The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.) He transformed the way opera was written and performed by actually doing the libretto himself.…
Mendelssohn, Schumann’s respected friend, showed him Bach’s choral works. They both fell in love with the work “Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele.” Schumann commented on this piece to Mendelssohn, “Round the cantus firmus hung the golden garlands of…
Therefore, he composed 250 sacred cantatas. The most notable one is Cantata No.140. It has seven movements. The melody and text are based on chorale tune Wachet auf. The first movement has sopranos and tenors singing a polyphonic texture.…
In addition to the cantata and other compositions forms for vocals, there were also…
Lauren Lancaster Lisa Qualls MUS 241 October 11, 2015 Favorite Composer There are a lot of fantastic composers in our world. The music that these people are able to produce is so beautiful and so incredible, it was hard to choose a favorite. After thinking about it, I have decided that the best composer had to be the famous one and only Johann Sebastian Bach. Now I’d like to tell you a little about Bach’s legendary life. He was born on March 31, 1685 in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany.…
This demonstrates that Pachelbels career was not solely based off his Canon in D. His legacy was made well before this particular piece had become known. In its original composition, this piece was written for three violins and a basso continuo. However, since the piece was not published until long after Pachelbel’s death, the version that is well-known today has a more modern sound.…
The Life And Works of Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was a brilliant composer. He was born March 31, 1685, in Eisenach, Germany. His pieces of music are some of the most influential and important pieces in the history of music. If you mention the name Bach today most people they will know the name. He has changed the way music is performed and observed.…
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach? Johann Sebastian Bach is a magnificent composer, he is known through the ages for his music complexities, and a innovator. Bach was born March 31, 1685 in Germany. Bach came from a family of musicians stretching back several generations, His father, Johann ambrosius was the town musician and it is believed that he taught young Bach how to play the violin. Bach as a child at age 7 went to school where he received religious instruction and studied latin, his lutheran faith is what influenced him in his musical career.…
Bach’s father was the town’s musician in Eisenach. Bach’s father taught him to play the violin. Bach’s ability to sing soprano was Bach attended a school where he learned Latin and received religious teachings. These religious teachings later greatly influenced Bach’s music. Bach was a devoted Lutheran man.…
He was a very isolated man and preferred recordings over live performances. He was best known for his technique and Bach interpretations of pieces. He has recorded many of Bach’s works, including the “Goldberg Variations” which is the longest Bach keyboard work. The complete “Goldberg Variations” can be played between an hour to an hour and a half. His playing shows his amazing control and imagination like no one before him, especially in Bach’s Fugues.…
Fredi Pritchett Music 110-08B December 2, 106 J.S. Bach Mass in B Minor On November 5, 2016, I attended the J.S. Bach Mass in B Minor music concert at Converse College, featuring a performance by the Spartanburg Festival Chorus. I enjoyed the musical selections performed by the chorus and saw a few familiar faces of some of my classmates at the concert as well. The venue of the concert was very nice and a lot of older people attended the concert.…
Johann Sebastian Bach was also influenced by his famous uncle Johann Christoph, a organist at the Georgenkirche in Eisenach. Bach was given a religious education which deeply effected his life. Bach was so religious that everything that he did with music was an act of prayer. At the age of eight Johann Sebastian attended the school choir. That gave him a change to sing to the village.…
Great Music in Modern Times In 1719, Johann Sebastian Bach began writing the fourth composition of his six Brandenburg Concertos, which took him nine years to fully complete. They were written for a chamber orchestra and were based off the Italian Concerto Grosso style. This collection of concertos is considered to be on the lighter side of Bach’s ingenious.…
The BMV 846-893 that is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by J.S. Bach in the 17th century, composed “for the gain and use of musical young man eager of studying, and especially for the recreation of those already skilled in this study.” Hans von Bülow, a famous German conductor in the 19th century, described it as the…