Bach, J.S.: Kirnberger Chorales And Other Organ Works, Vol. 1

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Cat No: 8553134

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099413428

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BACH, J.S.

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Kirnberger Chorales I and other organ works Prelude & Fugue in E Major, BWV 566 Partite diverse sopra: Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766 Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten, BWV 690 Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten BWV, 691 Ach Gott und Herr, BWV 692 Ach Gott und Herr, BWV 693 Wo soil ich fliehen hin, BWV 694 Fantasia super: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 695 Fugue in C Minor, BWV 574 Fughetta: Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 696 Fughetta: Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 697 Fughetta: Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gottes Sohn, BWV 698 Fughetta: Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 699 Vom Himmel hoch da komm'ich her, BWV 700 Fughetta: Vom Himmel hoch da komm'ich her, BWV 701 Prelude & Fugue in C Minor, BWV 549 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 so-called Kirnberger Collection, a title now generally ignored in recent editions, is a collection of music by Bach copied by or for his pupil Johann Philipp Kirnberger. The latter was born in Saalfeld in 1721 and educated in Coburg and Cotha, before, in 1739, travelling to Leipzig for lessons in composition and pe
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