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Dec 22, 2021 · Commentary: It’s been a year to rethink Bach’s ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos. A scene from choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s “The Six Brandenburg Concertos” at Opéra National de ...
- Mark Swed
- Classical Music Critic
- mark.swed@latimes.com
- They redefined the concerto and took it to new heights. These concertos are in concerto grosso, literally ‘big concerto’, form, which is when a large number of instruments takes on solo roles.
- They were subversive and spoke truth to power. Johann Sebastian Bach composed these pieces during his years spent as a court composer to the music-loving aristocrat, Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen.
- They have a deeply beautiful two-chord movement. These concertos, with inventive harmony, complex counterpoint, multi-layered fugues and interweaving textures, showcase Baroque music at its most intricate, detailed and mind-bogglingly intellectual, extreme.
- They fought fascism. Adolf Busch was a very famous violinist in 1920s Germany, In 1927, with the rise of Adolf Hitler, Busch denounced Nazism and emigrated to Switzerland and then to America.
Life. Henry was a son of Margrave John I of Brandenburg and his second wife, Jutta, the daughter of Duke Albert I of Saxony. The origin of his nickname "Lackland" is not known. Henry was more than fifteen years younger than his brothers John II, Otto IV "with the arrow" and Conrad I and was therefore likely to be excluded from governing when ...
- 21 March 1256
- Jutta of Saxony
- 14 February 1318 (aged 61)
- John I, Margrave of Brandenburg
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Dec 19, 2018 · Bach compiled the six groundbreaking Brandenburg Concertos in 1721 as a kind of musical résumé for an unsuccessful job inquiry. Their recipient, Prince Ludwig, the Margrave of Brandenburg, never responded and may not have opened the bundle of scores. We are the rich recipients of this sublime, revolutionary, and timeless music.
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes. Johann Sebastian Bach. Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051. Date of Composition: 1721. Duration: between 10 and 20 minutes each. Three hundred years ago, in August 1721, Johann Sebastian Bach was at a crossroads. For four years, he had been in the employ of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen.
The innovative Brandenburg Concerto No.5 is inspired by that new harpsichord Bach ordered in Berlin when he met the Margrave, as it is one of three featured instruments in this concerto, along with the flute and violin. The second movement features this trio alone before the entire ensemble comes together for a joyous finale, showcasing Bach ...
Oct 7, 2023 · Spectacle of forms and timbres“. In March 1721, Bach sent the ‘six concertos for various instruments’, which we know by their epithet ‘Brandenburg’, to Christian Ludwig, the Margrave of Brandenburg, by way of an open job application. What an amazing calling card!