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Chapter 10: The Late Baroque: Bach

Chapter 10: The Late Baroque: Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Career: Weimer (1708-1717), organist Cöthen (1717-1723), court composer, conductor Leipzig (1723-1750), cantor Reputation Renowned as an organ virtuoso Most famous for cantatas and fugues

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Chapter 10: The Late Baroque: Bach

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  1. Chapter 10: The Late Baroque: Bach

  2. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) • Career: • Weimer (1708-1717), organist • Cöthen (1717-1723), court composer, conductor • Leipzig (1723-1750), cantor • Reputation • Renowned as an organ virtuoso • Most famous for cantatas and fugues • Greatest composer of counterpoint

  3. Fugue • A composition with three or more parts, vocal or instrumental • Begins with successive statements of the subject • Continues with alternations of subject and episodes • Subject: • Exposition: • Episode:

  4. Organ Fugue in G Minor (c. 1710) • Written while Bach was court organist and chamber musician for the duke of Weimar • Four “voices”: soprano, alto, tenor, bass • Use of a pedal point:

  5. Bach’s Orchestral Music • Cöthen • Wrote the bulk of his orchestral music

  6. The Brandenburg Concertos (1715-1721) • Presented to prospective employer Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg • Set of concerto grossi • Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 • Concertino in this piece: solo violin, flute, harpsichord • Use of cadenza:

  7. The Church Cantata • 1723, Bach assumed the position of cantor of Saint Thomas’s Church and choir school in Leipzig • Church cantata:

  8. Wacht auf, ruft uns die Stimme(Awake, A Voice is Calling, 1731) • Written for the Sunday before Advent • Text from the Gospel of Matthew • Based on a traditionalchorale of the Lutheran church • Chorale: • Seven movements

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