He received his first musical training as a boy soprano and was educated at the St. Thomas School in Leipzig and sang under the direction of Johann Kuhnau, Bach's predecessor as Cantor. He later pursued studies at the University of Leipzig where he founded a collegium musicum. In 1722 he...
COMPOSER BIOGRAPHY As Johann Sebastian Bach's second and perhaps most prominently successful son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) received musical training from his father. The younger Bach's productive career produced about twenty sinfonias, chor...
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), the second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) and his first wife Maria Barbara (1684–1720), was born on 8 March 1714 in Weimar. One of his godfathers was Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767). After the family had moved to Leipzig...
___ ABOUT THE ARTIST A native of Cologne Germany, Peter Weiss received his musical training in Italy from Paolo Rasetti, and Giorgio Presto. Living today in Italy, he has held a professorship at Rome School of Music since 1996, and since 1992 has served as University Piano Player at the...
Johann Christian Bach was a composer called the “English Bach,” youngest son of J.S. and Anna Magdalena Bach and prominent in the early Classical period. J.C. Bach received his early training from his father and, probably, from his father’s cousin Joh
His musical language was distinctive and extraordinarily varied, drawing together and surmounting the techniques, the styles and the general achievements of his own and earlier generations and leading on to new perspectives which later ages have received and understood in a great variety of ways. The...
"There's this special face that people get when they start playing Bach, I call it Bach Face, and I think his music has an uncanny capacity to draw people in and connect them unlike no other composer," said New York musician Dale Henderson, who started playin...
His musical language was distinctive and extraordinarily varied, drawing together and surmounting the techniques, the styles and the general achievements of his own and earlier generations and leading on to new perspectives which later ages have received and understood in a great variety of ways....
Born in a musical family, Sheng began playing the piano at the age of 5 and received training from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. He studied under Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in...
which gave him greater musical freedom. His main duties were court organist and chamber musician to the reigning Duke Wilhelm Ernst, and he afterwards attained the job of conductor to the court orchestra in his last three years of service. It was at the beginning of this period of work that...