Baroque: Bach/Rembrandt van Rijn Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach in 1685 and died at age 65 in 1750. His parents’ died when he was ten years old. Therefore he moved in with his brother Johann Christoph, who was older than him by fourteen years, in Ohrdruf. Now by this time J. S. Bach was already suitable to play the violin.
Johannes Sebastian Bach was born into a family with a musical reputation in his birth town of Eisnach. His uncle, Johann Christoph Bach was a well known organist and his father a court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisenach, he had many mentors and influences in his life that helped him develop his musical talents . Bach grew up surrounded by music and began his studies in violin and harpsichord a very young age, taught by his father. Bach had experience playing the organ and singing in choirs, as he sang with his Latin Grammar School and was recognized for his, “uncommonly fine treble voice”. At the age of nine, Bach’s parents passed away within a nine month span of each other.
Question 1: “The Wicked Stepmother’s Lament” by Sara Maitland “The Wicked Stepmother’s Lament” written by Sara Maitland is treated as a “Cinderella” tale. The indicators of a “Cinderella” tale would be a story which depicts a young protagonist who is treated poorly by the stepmother and step-sibling figures. Additionally, the story should include that the protagonist is cast to do all the household chores and is not allowed to participate in the same activities as her stepsisters. The story could conclude with the damsel character being brought out of the undesirable conditions by a male figure who is higher in socioeconomic status. Maitland’s “The Wicked Stepmother’s Lament” pulls from the part of the story where the stepfamily is treating
He was born January 8th, 1792 in Medfield, Massachusetts as the firstborn of an established and middle-class family . Very early in his life he was an accomplished musician, attending singing schools and then teaching first singing school at the age of 15, an instrumentalist who at 16 got to direct the town band . Despite his achievements however, he wanted to go into business like his father and spent 15 years in Savannah, Georgia before returning to Boston in 1827 at the age of 35 . In Boston he worked as a banker, directed church choirs, and led the Handel and Haydn Society there in Boston . Around his 40’s, his time is now spent as a fulltime musician, in churches, schools, as church organist, choir director, academy choral director, administrator, publicist, and editor of textbooks, hymnals, and choral music anthologies
The main objective of Susan McClary’s article, “The Blasphemy of Talking Politics During Bach Year, is to have her readers reconsider why they think of Bach as a legendary icon in music history. McClary believes that many Bach devotees are naive in their thinking to believe that Bach is a great composer due to the fact that the beauty of his music was “beyond his time and place.” McClary’s article not only proposed an unorthodox statement, but makes very concrete examples out of his Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and Cantata 140 to support it. She accomplished what she wanted by having me, the reader, change the reasons why I believed his music was great. Because of this, I certainly believe this article is worth a read by other self proclaimed
Handel caused a great impact during the Baroque Era. Handel’s career consisted of composing. Even from an early age, Handel composed music, for churches. Handel’s first debut was in 1705, with the opera composition of Almira. Shortly after the release, Almira became a great success and was granted twenty additional performances.
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still, photographed in 1978 contrasts differently from her previous work. It depicts her wearing a fancy dress and jewellery implying that she is going out to a party or is at one. Her photograph reflects the Feminist movement during the 1970’s as women were beginning to stand up for what they believed in. Women wanted to change the “traditional” role of women and change the image of gender roles.
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician born in 1685 of the Baroque period and is famously known for his instrumental compositions such as Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C minor, Toccato and Fugue in D minor, and Magnificat just to name a few. Since the 19th century, Bach has been generally regarded as the greatest composer of all time. Being the last of eight children to be born into the Bach family, Johann basically had his life set up for him because his father was a city musician from Eisenach. Johann became an orphan at the tender age of ten and went to live with his brother in Luneburg while continuing his musical formation. I would like to think that Johann had a predominantly stable and great life, but he had to work hard
Both J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel use different aspects of music to compose important pieces of music. The baroque period is often known as the time when artists exaggerated their motion and produced drama through interpreted detail. Both of these composers used this baroque style to convey messages through their music. The similarity in their music was that it is in a spiritual manner. J.S. Bach’s style was a harmonic and motivation manner, which Handel’s is more of a narrative.
Beethoven and Brahms Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms were two great composers during very different times of musical periods. Although Johannes Brahms was born 5 years after Ludwig van Beethoven passed away, many have considered Brahms as Beethoven’s musical heir. Ludwig van Beethoven lived and wrote compositions during the classical musical time while Johannes Brahms wrote during the romantic musical time, although there is this time gap between the two Brahms is considered to be one of the more classical of the romantic composers. The two musical artists created many compositions over the years of their career. Both had rough times in their lifetimes and instead of letting these problems bringing them down they continued to write compositions and create amazing works.
When George Frideric Handel was a little kid, his uncle gave him a clavier which was a small keyboard-like instrument in secret because he knew that George loved the beautiful notes of music. One night, his parents heard music wafting throughout the house in the middle of the night and knew not from whence it came. When they searched the house, they found George playing melodies on his instrument. This was one of the first times that he would experience music for himself and lead him to have a career that would produce one of the most inspiring pieces of all time: the Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah.
“I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results” (Bach). Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most influential composers of all time ("Top 10 Most Famous Classical Composers of All Time.") He lived during the Baroque period of music in the 17th century. Baroque music is a category of European Classical music and is recognized for ornamentation added to long melodic lines, the addition and use of harpsichord and basso continuos.
Johann Sebastian Bach Violin Sonata in A minor BWV 1003 (1720) Greatest German composer of all time, Johann Sebastian was born in a musical family in Eisenach. He received his musical training from his father Johann Ambrosius and relatives. Besides being a highly respected organist, Bach’s compositions were also greatly recognized and became the musical model for other famed composers after his time such as Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. The Sonata in A minor is one of the works in Bach’s six unaccompanied violin sonatas and partitas.
Baroque music is a style of western art music. It was followed after the Renaissance music and was followed in turn by classical music. It emerged in the seventeenth century as a shorthand notation for keyboardists who were accompanying a soloist or small ensemble performing a work originally composed for a larger group. Key composers of the Baroque music are Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Henry Purcell, Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti, Jean Philippe Rameau, Johann Pachelbel, George Frideric Handle, Claudio Monteverdi Domenico Scarlatti and many others.
The Renaissance and Baroque periods of music are two very similar and different eras. The Renaissance which began after the end of the Middle Ages in 1450 and ended the beginning of the 1600s, this is where the Baroque period starts. The beginning of the Renaissance period was compromised of sacred and religious music cultivating from the middle ages. Before the Renaissance period music had to be copied and re-written by hand, which was a very difficult task to do continuously. During the Renaissance period however, printing was invented, which made producing music easier and also changed a lot of other things in other areas.
