Monteverdi's Orfeo, composed in 1607 is an early operatic masterpiece ... the bulk of Bach's output isinstrumental music c. Bach created masterpieces in every baroque form except opera d. ... music 98. In the baroque era chromatic ground basses were commonly used to showjuliannebaird....
(sābäsˈtyän)(bäkh), 1685–1750, German composer and organist, b. Eisenach; one of the greatest and most influential composers of the Western world. He brought polyphonic baroque music to its culmination, creating masterful and vigorous works in almost every musical form known in his ...
During the next ‘tempus clausum’ Bach composed his first large-scale choral work for Leipzig, the St John Passion (BWV 245), first performed at Vespers in the Nikolaikirche on Good Friday (April 7). This Vespers service had been introduced specially for the performance of a Passion only ...
Perhaps the finest exemplar of the baroque era, Bach composed major, complex works in every genre of music except opera. Both his sacred and secular compositions are among the finest ever penned and brilliantly synthesize the various national styles practiced by Bach’s contemporaries. Here are his...
Der Tod Jesu, was not composed until four years after Bach's death. The disgusting poem of Brockes (which was set by every German composer of the time) was transformed by Bach with real literary skill as the groundwork of the non-scriptural numbers in his Passion according to St. John....
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, said to be one of the best organists of his time (Baroque Music). He was born in March 1685 in Eisenach, Thuringia as the youngest of eight children. His father Johann Ambrosius was also a musician and a court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisena...
We don’t know what prompted Bach, a year before his death, to produce a nearly two-hour-long setting of the Latin mass, combining newly composed movements with music penned as much as a quarter century earlier. As completed, it wouldn’t have been useful in...
They ue all extremely strort, they have the first phrase of the chorale as theme and are malked by brilliant contrapuntal dexterity, They were probablv composed in Leipzig when Bach's abi]ity was fully developed. Each movement is a gem. but perhaps the best of all are Gelobet seist du,...
Johann Sebastian Bach - Composer, Baroque, Organist: For about 50 years after Bach’s death, his music was neglected. This was only natural; in the days of Haydn and Mozart, no one could be expected to take much interest in a composer who had been consid
Johann Sebastian Bach, composer of the Baroque era and member of a large family of north German musicians. He was later regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time, celebrated for such pieces as the Brandenburg Concertos and The Well-Tempered C