As to the music itself, I may just as well flaunt or flout the traverso one more time. I was so anxious to get on to Jahrgang II, get my iBook returned, etc. The Suzuki versions are the only ones I have. Naturally they sound wonderful, like Bach, like heaven. I did not understand why the programming on CD is in reverse chronological order.
To the colleague flute of Doug Cowling, it appears well documented that Bach the man took the trouble to write traverso lines for Wild the grad student to help him get a job.
Not to mention music for the glory of God. The job didn't work out, but the music has proved durable not to struggle for words like exquisite, etc. See Oxford Composer Companion, Wild entry. Keep us up to date on the flute publication. Jean Laaninen wrote June 13, : [To Ed Myskowski] I am interested in the flute parts in the works you mentioned, and hope I can look at an orchestral score of them one of these days.
Interesting background on why Bach created these cantatas with the flute included. Thanks for sharing. Especially when one considers for how much of that period his wives were pregnant. Christianity, that ever-peaceful religion of love, for a very long time made sure that gay people risked violent death if they were found out. Robert went mad. Clara put him in the nut house. Clara never visited him for the last two years of his awful life.
She was concertizing all over Europe and supporting the kids. Later at least one of the kids went mad too and most of them lived unhappily ever after. Robert's Jewish convert friend Felix was a happy and non-neurotic being and then Fanny died and then Felixdied both very young. Clara may or may not have had a thing with Brahms or Brahms may have only attended prostitutes.
Franz Schubert may or may not have visited boy brothels and gotten syphilis. Frankly we don't know but we have the genius of all these beings some of whom suffered terribly and some of whom were happy and fortunate. Many persons screw just as much but don't produce so many kids and of those kids none is ever brilliant Siegfried Wagner excepted:Duh! Eric Bergerud wrote June 14, : [To Julian Mincham] As I recall Wolff made it quite clear that he was writing a musical biography of Bach as opposed to trying to develop a picture of a whole man.
Lack of sources was the reason given and it's a good one. Although Bach might have wished otherwise, he lived in a relatively small world throughout his life. Serving as cantor in Leipzig beat the devil out of plowing some aristocrat's field, but it was not the center of the universe.
Had Bach set up shop in London, Holland or even Hamburg he might have generated the kind of international attention that would have created correspondence. It didn't happen and we'll be very lucky indeed to find additional correspondence to or from Bach.
It is a real pity after all. We know Bach spent considerable time with students and faculty from the Leipzig University. What did they talk about? Kind of hard to believe it would have been music only, especially if lubricated with a little wine or ale.
The burning issues of politics were in the future although Mozart seems to have slept through the American and French Revolutions but the subject in general was a hot item in many intellectual circles. Anti-clerical ideas were beginning to kick around and there was considerable ferment in Protestant circles. Did Bach follow science in any way? Bach did not act the rebel, but not many people did in the early 18 th century: order looked pretty good to Europeans after the adventures of the 17 th century.
We don't know and we'll never know. At least we're left with most of his music. Not such a bad trade. William Rowland Ludwig wrote June 14, : [To Eric Begerud] At least Bach did what most people of his day did not doand that was to travel in a day that most folks rarely ever left their villages and when they did did not wander to far afield. Yet despite this Bach seems to have known what was going on in Italy at the time.
As for Mozart; I doubt that he really slept through the French Revolution had he lived unless you are being facetiously sarcastic --the revolution got started on 14 July with the storming of the Bastille just about the time that Mozart died; it raged on for nearly 10 years until Napoleon took over the reigns of Government completely much to Beethoven's initial joy and then disgust.
Mozart instead would have known to kept the hell out of France since the Revolutionaries would have probably guillotined him during the Terror by reason that he had close connections to Marie-Antoinette, the French Court and the Austrian Court. Austria and other allies were attempting to invade France at that time which led to the Napoleonic wars over the execution of Marie-Antoinette and an attemps to restore Louis VXI to the throne.
Louis ruined it for himself when he could not tolerate being hungry and stopped near the border at someone's home who he had previously treated like the English Parliament had treated Benjamin Franklin--which was responsible for the full fury of the American Revolution. Franklin until that time was a very loyal British subject who loved his King. It seems to be implied by what we know of Bach that he was a faculty member of the Unversity of Leipzig but we can not find any documentation of this to the best of my knowledge and if such documentation did exist it probably was burned during the destruction of Leipzig in WWII and for all of you who were not around: Leipzig looked like an atomic bomb had hit it when the allies left itbarely any buildings at all were left standingwhat you see today is for most a reconstruction of what was there before.
If you have not already seen it, there is much background and discussion in the flute section of General Topics, including a list of the many upcoming cantatas with prominent flute parts. No, I haven't seen the flute section, but I will check it out. How much sex a person enjoys really has little bearing on how creative, or hard-working, or musical he or she is. Or even how many children he or she left behind. In any case, as someone pointed out --if no one has, let me be the first--the fact that J.
Bach had 20 children only shows that he had at least 20 minutes of sex in his married life; heavens, any modern American has that much sex in, well, a year.
Even I've had 20 minutes of sex, and I only have one kid, and I haven't composed a thing. Shouldn't I have composed one-twentieth of Bach's volume of work?
That simply proves how relevant this discussion is. And then, what if Bach did have a lot of sex, but hated every minute of it? He was a Lutheran, remember? The serious question is: did Bach's sexual activity or tendencies impinge on his music? This is a question as meaningful as: If Wagner was infinitely wealthy, would he have been a great philanthropist? Would he have lent a few thaler to Mozart, if Wolfie asked nicely? The answer, by the way, is yes.
And another thing. This whole thing of being homosexual. When I was a teen, I thought this question was one of the greatest ideas anyone had ever invented. Was Napoleon a homosexual? George Washington? John the Baptist? I have read your privacy policy and agree that you receive, save and utilize my details to be able to answer my query.
I can withdraw my permission at any time. A socialite with a great sense of humour? Gaining insight into the personality of Johann Sebastian Bach. Secular cantatas by J. Previous Next. Ribal elements and tavern songs. The last comment and 1 other comment s need to be approved.
Leave a Reply Want to join the discussion? Archival sources, including school inspector reports, reveal that Bach's education was troubled by gang warfare and bullying, sadism and sodomy — as well as his own extensive truancy.
His first school, Eisenach Latin school in Thuringia, Germany, was largely attended by the children of bourgeois tradespeople. However, Gardiner said that documents damn the boys as "rowdy, subversive, thuggish, beer- and wine-loving, girl-chasing … breaking windows and brandishing their daggers". He added: "More disquieting were rumours of a 'brutalisation of the boys' and evidence that many parents kept their children at home — not because they were sick, but for fear of what went on in or outside school.
Such experiences must have left "lasting scars" on him, Gardiner believes. There was something exceptional, certainly in Eisenach. Mary's Church, but marriage to one of Buxtehude's daughters was a prerequisite to taking over the job. Bach declined, and walked back home. When he signed up for the role, nobody told him he also had to teach a student choir and orchestra, a responsibility Bach hated.
Days later, Geyersbach attacked Bach with a walking stick. Bach pulled a dagger. The rumble escalated into a full-blown scrum that required the two be pulled apart. When Bach took a job in as a chamber musician in the court of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, he once again assumed a slew of responsibilities that he never signed up for. This time, he took it in stride, believing his hard work would lead to his promotion to kapellmeister music director.
Furious, Bach resigned and joined a rival court. As retribution, the duke jailed him for four weeks. Bach spent his time in the slammer writing preludes for organ. Notice a pattern? Bach polished some manuscripts that had been sitting around and mailed them to a potential employer, Christian Ludwig, the Margrave of Brandenburg.
That package, which included the Brandenburg Concertos —now considered some of the most important orchestral compositions of the Baroque era—failed to get Bach the job [ PDF ].
Bach apparently loved coffee enough to write a song about it: "Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht" "Be still, stop chattering". She rebels and sings this stanza :.
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