In , Bach was offered a post in Halle when he advised the authorities during a renovation by Christoph Cuntzius of the main organ in the west gallery of the Market Church of Our Dear Lady. Johann Kuhnau and Bach played again when it was inaugurated in In the spring of , Bach was promoted to Konzertmeister , an honor that entailed performing a church cantata monthly in the castle church. BWV forPentecost.
Despite being born in the same year and only about kilometers 81 mi apart, Bach and Handel never met. Thomas Church in Leipzig which served four churches in the city, the Thomaskirche , the Nikolaikirche St. Nicholas Church , the Neue Kirche and the Peterskirche , and musical director of public functions such as city council elections and homages. This was a prestigious post in the mercantile city in the Electorate of Saxony, which he held for twenty-seven years until his death.
Bach drew the soprano and alto choristers from the School, and the tenors and basses from the School and elsewhere in Leipzig. Performing at weddings and funerals provided extra income for these groups; it was probably for this purpose, and for in-school training, that he wrote at least six motets.
The Paulinerkirche had a much better and newer organ than did the Thomaskirche or the Nikolaikirche. Bach broadened his composing and performing beyond the liturgy by taking over, in March , the directorship of the Collegium Musicum, a secular performance ensemble started by the composer Georg Philipp Telemann.
This was one of the dozens of private societies in the major German-speaking cities that was established by musically active university students; these societies had become increasingly important in public musical life and were typically led by the most prominent professionals in a city.
In , Bach composed a mass for the Dresden court Kyrie and Gloria which he later incorporated in his Mass in B minor. He later extended this work into a full mass, by adding a Credo , Sanctus and Agnus Dei , the music for which was partly based on his own cantatas, partly new composed.
In he travelled to England, gained repute there, and became music master to Queen Charlotte. The king played a theme for Bach and challenged him to improvise a fugue based on his theme.
Its six-part fugue includes a slightly altered subject more suitable for extensive elaboration. Other late works by Bach may also have a connection with the music theory based Society.
One of those works was The Art of Fugue , which consists of eighteen complex fugues and canons based on a simple theme. As far as I came to discover by reading some old biographies, which I don't know if are entirely correct in this regard, Bach had a friend who was a piano manufacturer, and gave an instrument as a gift to Bach, who refused the instrument because he didn't like some characteristics of that particular model, not pianos in general.
This happened around the 30s of the eighteenth century. Some years later, Bach went to visit his son in Berlin, then played an improved piano model, and became quite interested in the instrument. Thank you for your comment. It's an interesting myth that says a lot about how people approach performance practice, so I did a little digging. I expect to write a post about this in a few days. Do you want me to identify you as "Cleverson," or would you prefer something else? This is wonderful! I love the image of Mendelssohn as Indiana Jones :- Well done!
Hi Linda, thank you for answering with kind interest. Yes, you may call me by my name Cleverson. Speaking of performances, indeed, you could also write about that "historic informed" thing. It appears that the period instruments have almost monopolized the cenario, at least regarding new recordings, don't know how it is at concert halls around the world. I find it unfortunate, because for me, the modern instruments and way of execution lets me better see the greatness of a Bach for example.
Of course this is a personal taste, but the fact is that at the baroke era, the composers didn't worry the least about their music being interpreted using completely other instruments than those they wrote the original score Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single entry from a reference work in OR for personal use for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice.
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Works were composed and performed for the moment in which they were written. Sure, there were some historical composers who remained in the musical consciousness of Europe.
The works of Palestrina, Purcell, Lully and Handel were never forgotten. The early romantics became enamored with the past past thought and past art in a movement of historicism. This was especially prevalent in Germany. After the embarrassment of the Napoleonic Wars, there was a desire to reach back to what made that country great.
This renewed patriotism also led to a religious revival, a resurgence of the Protestant, Lutheran Church. Naturally, J. Bach became the icon of this movement. This underground movement began to gain momentum.
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