Bach, J.S.: Clavierubung III, Vol. 2

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Cat No: 8550930

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099593021

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BACH, J.S.

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Clavierubung III Vol. 2 Vater unser im Himmelreich, BWV 682 Vater unser im Himmelreich (alio modo), BWV 683 Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam, BWV 684 Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam (alio modo), BWV 685 Aus tiefer Not schrei' ich zu dir, BWV 686 Aus tiefer Not schrei' ich zu dir (alio modo), BWV 687 Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Zorn Gottes wandt, BWV 688 Fuga super: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 689 Duetto I, BWV 802 Duetto II, BWV 803 Duetto III, BWV 804 Duetto IV, BWV 805 Fugue in E Flat Major, BWV 552 Johann Sebastian Bach was a member of a family that had for generations been occupied in music. His sons were to continue the tradition, providing the foundation of a new style of music that prevailed in the later part of the eighteenth century. Johann Sebastian Bach himself represented the end of an age, the culmination of the Baroque in a magnificent synthesis of Italian melodic invention, French rhythmic dance forms and German contrapuntal mastery. Born in Eisenach in 1685, Bach was educated largely by his eldest brother, after the early death of his parents. At the age of eighteen he embarked on his career as a musician, serving first as a court musician at Weimar, before appointment as organist at Arnstadt. Four years later he moved to Mühlhausen as organist and the following year became organist and chamber musician to Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Weimar. Securing his release with difficulty, in 1717 he was appointed Kapellmeister to Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen and remained at Cöthen until 1723, when he moved to Leipzig as Cantor at the School of St. Thomas, with responsibility for the music of the five principal city churches. Bach was to remain in Leipzig until his death in 1750. As a craftsman obliged to fulfil the terms of his employment, Bach provided music suited to his various appointments. It was natural that his earlier work as an organist and something of an expert on the construction of organs, should result in music for that instrument. At Cöthen, where the Pietist leanings of the court made church music unnecessary, he provided a quantity of instrumental music for the court orchestra and its players. In Leipzig he began by composing series of cantatas for the church year, later turning his attention to instrumental music for the Collegium musicum of the University, and to the collection and ordering of his own compositions. The Organ Mass continues with the Our Father, Vater unser im Himmelreich (Our Father in Heaven). Here a much ornamented subject appears immediately in the upper part, to be imitated by the second voice. The chorale melody itself is presented in canon between the upper part and the fourth of the five voices. There is a shorter alternative working of the Vater unser, for manuals, its melody in the upper part. Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam (Christ our Lord to Jordan came) presents the theme in the pedals, against a three-voice
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