Bach, J.S.: Sonatas For Violin And Harpsichord, Vol. 2

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Release Date: 09 January 2000

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Composer/Series: BACH, J.S.

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Johann Sebastian Bach(1685-1750)Sonatas for Violin andHarpsichord, Vol.2, BWV 1018-1019Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 at Eisenach, the youngest of sixchildren of a family that was part of an extended musical dynasty. After thedeath of his parents, he moved in 1695 to Ohrdruf, where his eldest brother,Johann Christoph, was organist at the Michaeliskirche. His schooling in Ohrdrufcontinued until 1700, when he moved to the Michaelisschule at L??neburg some twohundred miles away. Two years later he began his professional career as amusician at the court in Weimar, followed very shortly by appointment asorganist at Arnstadt. In 1707 some dissatisfaction with the conditions andmusical possibilities there led him to move to a similar position atM??hlhausen, where he married his first wife, his second cousin Maria Barbara.The following year he was appointed court organist at Weimar, where he alsoserved as a violinist or viola player in the court orchestra. In 1714 he wasappointed Konzertmeister, but his relationship with his employer, Duke WilhelmErnst, was uneasy, partly through his collaboration in the musical activitiesof the co-regent of Weimar, Duke Ernst August. In 1716 Bach was passed over forthe position of Kapellmeister, which he might have expected on the death of theexisting incumbent, and this led him to look elsewhere. His association withDuke Ernst August provided a way out, when employment as Court Kapellmeister tothe Duke's new brother-in-law, Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cothen, was offered onrelatively generous terms. Duke Wilhelm Ernst showed his final displeasure byimprisoning Bach for a month, before dismissing him from his service.The court at Cothen offered all that Bach could have wished. PrinceLeopold was young and an enthusiastic musical amateur and the Pietistpersuasions of the court meant that there was no call for church music.Instead Bach could devoted himself primarily to secular music for the courtorchestra and its members in a fruitful series of concertos, sonatas andsuites. The period was a happy one for Bach, marred only by the sudden death ofhis wife in 1720, while he was at Carlsbad in the company of the Prince. Thefollowing year he married again. His new wife, Anna Magdalena, was the youngestdaughter of the court trumpeter at Weissenfels and employed as a court singerat Cothen. Prince Leopold's marriage in the same year to a woman whom Bachdescribed as 'amusica', however, made life at court much less satisfactory. InDecember 1722 he applied for the position of Cantor in Leipzig, where he movedthe following spring. He thus exchanged his position at a princely court forthe duties of organist and choirmaster, soon to be varied by additional workwith another collegium musicum, the ensemble established by Telemann at LeipzigUniversity. Bach remained in Leipzig for the rest of his life.The six Sonatas for Violin and Cembalo, BWV 1014-1019, must be dated tothe years at Cothen. Bach's second son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, re
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