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- César Franck, Charles-Marie Widor, and Félix-Alexandre Guilmant were important organist-composers who were inspired by the sounds made possible through Cavaillé-Coll's advances in organ building. They wrote extensively for the organ, and their works have endured.
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The English organ: how it evolved through history - Classical Music. Over the centuries, social upheavals and changing musical fashions have both ravaged and transformed the English organ. Daniel Moult tells its story. BBC Music Magazine. Published: January 4, 2023 at 4:43 am. What does the term ‘English organ’ conjure up in your mind?
Mendelssohn and and Josef Rheinberger composed extensively for organ, particularly in the sonata form, blending the tonalities of Romanticism with the contrapuntal style of Bach and his like. However, during this period it was largely France that held claim to innovation in the organ world.
- Early Life
- Organist at Arnstadt
- The Weimar Court
- Prince Leopold
- Move to Leipzig
- Bach's Noted Works
- Death & Legacy
Johann Sebastian Bach was born on 21 March 1685 in Eisenach in Thuringia, central Germany. The house where it is thought he lived as a child is in the Rittergasse, today a museum dedicated to the composer. Johann Sebastian came from a long line of musicians, several of them important in the region as choirmasters, church organists, and court entert...
Leaving school in 1702 and returning to Thuringia, Bach pursued a musical career with varying degrees of success, managing to earn a wage by playing the violin in the Weimar ducal court orchestra. His fortunes rose considerably when he was called in to test the new organ of the New Church in Arnstadt. As a result of a public recital, which went dow...
Despite his good salary, Bach was soon frustrated at the limitations put on sacred musical performances by the church elders at Mühlhausen. From June 1708 to 1717, Bach was back working at the Weimar court, appointed by Duke Wilhelm Ernst to be the organist for the castle's chapel, the Kapellmeister, and to provide chamber music when required. It i...
By 1717, Bach and Duke Wilhelm had fallen out. The duke had strictly forbidden any of his employees to work at the rival court of the co-regent Duke Ernst August, but Bach had ignored this, even performing a birthday cantata dedicated to the duke. The composer announced his intention to move on to the court of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen. Leopo...
Bach married for a second time in December 1721, his wife was the court singer Anna Magdalena Wilcken (1701-1760), with whom he had 13 children. In May 1723, Bach was appointed the choirmaster, organist and teacher of the Thomaskirche (Saint Thomas' Church) in Leipzig. Here Bach composed works to be performed in the city's four main churches and ta...
Bach was a Lutheran Protestant in an area particularly known for this branch of the Christian faith. Indeed, Martin Luther had spent time imprisoned in the imposing Wartburg Castle in Bach's hometown of Eisenach and even attended the same school that Bach had done. It should come as no surprise then that Bach's music often focussed on religious the...
In his last years, Bach was almost totally blind and rather impoverished, his baroque music now seen as dated as tastes had moved on. Bach died of a stroke in Leipzig on 28 July 1750. He was interred inside St. John's Church (originally near the south door but later moved to near the altar). Two of Bach's sons with Maria Barbara, Wilhelm Friedemann...
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Feb 5, 2024 · Johan Sebastian Bach’s Influence on Classical Music. In particular, JS Bach seemed drawn to the work of Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707), a Danish composer and organist, whose work made a significant impact on the young JS Bach. Such was the draw of Buxtehude to JS Bach that at the age of nineteen, he took a leave of absence from Arnstadt to ...
The work, while original in its own right, is heavily influenced by the work of Liszt. These two works are the most monumental compositions for the organ from the mid-19th century. Organ music in Germany at the end of the 19th century is dominated by the towering figure of Max Reger.
Jan 12, 2017 · George Frideric Handel - Organ Concerto HWV 306 - Op. 7 No. 1 in B flat major. Handel composed a work of six organ concertos for chamber organ and orchestra from 1735-1736 - these organ concertos were the first of their kind and influenced many future composers.
It may be called a church organ or classical organ to differentiate it from the theatre organ, which is a different style of instrument. However, as classical organ repertoire was developed for the pipe organ and in turn influenced its development, the line between a church and a concert organ became harder to draw.
