Floyd Grave and Margaret Grave
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195173574
- eISBN:
- 9780199872152
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173574.003.0018
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Declining health prevented Haydn from completing a 1799 commission from Prince Lobkowitz for a set of six quartets. Two completed works were published by Artaria in 1802 as Op. 77; the unfinished Op. ...
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Declining health prevented Haydn from completing a 1799 commission from Prince Lobkowitz for a set of six quartets. Two completed works were published by Artaria in 1802 as Op. 77; the unfinished Op. 103 was printed by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1806. Along with indications of further development along lines pursued in Op. 76 — for example, an accelerated pace for the dance movements and the use of remote keys for interior portions of the cycle — there are signs of retrenchment, notably the scarcity of learned counterpoint and the avoidance of dramatized, end-focused designs in favor of equilibrium and symmetry. The seriousness and intensity that mark the completed movements of Op. 103 — an Andante grazioso in B flat and a veritable Sturm und Drang dance movement in D minor — are signs of a particularly ambitious, unrealized plan for the work as a whole.Less
Declining health prevented Haydn from completing a 1799 commission from Prince Lobkowitz for a set of six quartets. Two completed works were published by Artaria in 1802 as Op. 77; the unfinished Op. 103 was printed by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1806. Along with indications of further development along lines pursued in Op. 76 — for example, an accelerated pace for the dance movements and the use of remote keys for interior portions of the cycle — there are signs of retrenchment, notably the scarcity of learned counterpoint and the avoidance of dramatized, end-focused designs in favor of equilibrium and symmetry. The seriousness and intensity that mark the completed movements of Op. 103 — an Andante grazioso in B flat and a veritable Sturm und Drang dance movement in D minor — are signs of a particularly ambitious, unrealized plan for the work as a whole.
Mary Oleskiewicz (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041488
- eISBN:
- 9780252050084
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041488.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This volume investigates topics surrounding Johann Sebastian Bach and his five musically gifted sons. Robert Marshall takes on a deeply psychological perspective by examining how each of the Bach ...
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This volume investigates topics surrounding Johann Sebastian Bach and his five musically gifted sons. Robert Marshall takes on a deeply psychological perspective by examining how each of the Bach sons personally dealt with Sebastian’s imposing legacy. Mary Oleskiewicz investigates the Bach family’s connections to historical keyboard instruments and musical venues at the Prussian court of Frederick “the Great.” David Schulenberg argues that Emanuel Bach’s most significant contribution to European music is the large and diverse body of keyboard music he composed for harpsichord, fortepiano, organ and the clavichord. Evan Cortens’s chapter takes a detailed view of Emanuel Bach’s singers, vocal performance materials, and pay records in Hamburg and concludes that, as in most other parts of Germany at that time, one singer per part was the norm for Emanuel’s liturgical music after 1767. Finally, Christine Blanken’s essay continues research into Breitkopf’s publishing firm. Her discovery of unknown manuscripts by several members of the Bach family demonstrates much about what we can still learn about musical transmission, performance practice, and concert life in Bach’s Leipzig.Less
This volume investigates topics surrounding Johann Sebastian Bach and his five musically gifted sons. Robert Marshall takes on a deeply psychological perspective by examining how each of the Bach sons personally dealt with Sebastian’s imposing legacy. Mary Oleskiewicz investigates the Bach family’s connections to historical keyboard instruments and musical venues at the Prussian court of Frederick “the Great.” David Schulenberg argues that Emanuel Bach’s most significant contribution to European music is the large and diverse body of keyboard music he composed for harpsichord, fortepiano, organ and the clavichord. Evan Cortens’s chapter takes a detailed view of Emanuel Bach’s singers, vocal performance materials, and pay records in Hamburg and concludes that, as in most other parts of Germany at that time, one singer per part was the norm for Emanuel’s liturgical music after 1767. Finally, Christine Blanken’s essay continues research into Breitkopf’s publishing firm. Her discovery of unknown manuscripts by several members of the Bach family demonstrates much about what we can still learn about musical transmission, performance practice, and concert life in Bach’s Leipzig.
David Schulenberg
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- August 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190936303
- eISBN:
- 9780190936334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190936303.003.0010
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Bach arrived at Leipzig in 1723 and remained there for the rest of his life. A university city, Leipzig was also a trade center. Although it was not a princely residence, members of its ruling ...
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Bach arrived at Leipzig in 1723 and remained there for the rest of his life. A university city, Leipzig was also a trade center. Although it was not a princely residence, members of its ruling council had close connections with the reigning duke-elector in Dresden. This chapter describes Bach’s place in the city’s St. Thomas School and his relationships with members of the city’s ruling class and intelligentsia, including the poets and university faculty and students with whom he collaborated. Also considered is the city’s musical life, including Bach’s direction of the Collegium Musicum and his first self-published compositions, as well as the first instances of conflict between Bach and members of the city council and church administration.Less
Bach arrived at Leipzig in 1723 and remained there for the rest of his life. A university city, Leipzig was also a trade center. Although it was not a princely residence, members of its ruling council had close connections with the reigning duke-elector in Dresden. This chapter describes Bach’s place in the city’s St. Thomas School and his relationships with members of the city’s ruling class and intelligentsia, including the poets and university faculty and students with whom he collaborated. Also considered is the city’s musical life, including Bach’s direction of the Collegium Musicum and his first self-published compositions, as well as the first instances of conflict between Bach and members of the city council and church administration.
Christine Blanken
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041488
- eISBN:
- 9780252050084
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041488.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter treats newly discovered Bach manuscripts found in the archive of the Leipzig firm Breitkopf & Härtel, which was the most influential music publisher in eighteenth century Europe. ...
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This chapter treats newly discovered Bach manuscripts found in the archive of the Leipzig firm Breitkopf & Härtel, which was the most influential music publisher in eighteenth century Europe. Highlights include J. S. Bach’s autograph entries in early Weimar keyboard sources (Toccatas BWV 913/914); sources copied during J. S. Bach’s Leipzig period; and important new sources of instrumental works by three Bach sons. The manuscripts not only illustrate the performance repertoire of Leipzig music societies, such as the Gewandhaus concerts, during the mid-eighteenth century and after Sebastian Bach’s death, but also document the Breitkopf firm’s music distribution activities.Less
This chapter treats newly discovered Bach manuscripts found in the archive of the Leipzig firm Breitkopf & Härtel, which was the most influential music publisher in eighteenth century Europe. Highlights include J. S. Bach’s autograph entries in early Weimar keyboard sources (Toccatas BWV 913/914); sources copied during J. S. Bach’s Leipzig period; and important new sources of instrumental works by three Bach sons. The manuscripts not only illustrate the performance repertoire of Leipzig music societies, such as the Gewandhaus concerts, during the mid-eighteenth century and after Sebastian Bach’s death, but also document the Breitkopf firm’s music distribution activities.
