S&j bach biography
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Sentimental journey: Follow the footsteps of 'the Great Bach'
After a music stand for choir singers marked with the initials "E.B." was discovered in Hamburg’s St. Peter’s Church in 2012, the city’s music culture minister received an email asking if he’d ever heard of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
It was kind of a shocking question, says Alexander Steinhilber, who is also a musicologist and university professor. After all, how could one not know of the composer who was referred to bygd Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven as "Bach the Great?"
"He was nearly forgotten. inom decided that something needed to be done to raise the profile of ‘the Hamburg Bach,’ " Steinhilber told a group gathered at the Bach Museum in Leipzig earlier this year.
A host of festivities has been organized to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Titled "CPE Bach 1714," it encompasses 320 events in six cities throughout the year.
Born March 8, 1714, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach may not be so well known
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Johann Sebastian Bach
1685–1750
Passio Secundum Johannem
The Passion according to John
Directed by Ivars Taurins
Myriam Leblancsoprano
Krisztina Szabómezzo-soprano
James GilchristEvangelist & tenor soloist
William SharpJesus & baritone soloist
Jonathon AdamsPetrus, Pilatus & baritone soloist
Projections from The Saint John’s Bible curated by Ivars Taurins & produced by Laura Warren
There will be a 20-minute intermission. The concert will be approximately 2.5 hours in length.
TAFELMUSIK CHAMBER CHOIR
Soprano
Jane Fingler, Roseline Lambert, Carrie Loring, Meghan Moore, Susan Suchard, Sinéad White, Jennifer Wilson
Alto
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Collection: Johann Sebastian Bach
He was the youngest son of Johann Ambrosius Bach, a town musician, from whom he probably learned the violin and the rudiments of musical theory. When he was ten he was orphaned and went to live with his elder brother Johann Christoph, an organist at St. Michael's Church, Ohrdruf, who gave him lessons in keyboard playing. From 1700 to 1702 he attended St. Michael's School in Lüneburg, where he sang in the church choir and probably came into contact with the organist and composer Georg Böhm. He also visited Hamburg to hear J.A. Reincken at the organ of St. Catherine's Church.
After competing unsuccessfully for an organist's post in Sangerhausen in 1702, Bach spent the spring and summer of 1703 as a 'lackey' and violinist at the court of Weimar and then took up the post of organist at the Neukirche in Arnstadt. In June 1707 he moved to St. Blasius, Mühlhausen, and four months later married his cousin Maria Barbara Bach in nearby Dornheim. Bach