Bach, J.S.: Organ Chorales From The Leipzig Manuscript, Vol. 1

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Cat No: 8550901

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030509016

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BACH, J.S.

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Organ Chorales from the Leipzig Manuscript Vol. 1 Fantasia super Komm, Heiliger Geist, BWV 651 (Fantasia on Come, Holy Ghost) Komm, Heiliger Geist (alio modo), BWV 652 An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV 653 By the waters of Babylon) Schmücke, dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 654 (Deck thyself, beloved soul) Trio super Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend, BWV 655 (Trio on Lord Jesus Christ, turn to us) O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig, BWV 656 (O Lamb of God, guiltless) Nun danket alle Gott, BWV 657 Now thank we all our God) Von Gott will ich nicht lassen, BWV 658 (From God I will not part) Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 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 works collected and revised by Bach probably between 1744 and 1747 and included in the so-called Leipzig Autograph, the Leipziger Originalhandschrift, were largely composed between 1708 and 1717, the years spent in Weimar. The chorale, the congregational hymn of the German Protestant church, had its roots in pre-Reformation practices. Its importance in Lutheran church music may in some respects be compared with the importance in Cat
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