The Classical Music Book

THE END AND FINAL AIM OF ALL MUSIC SHOULD BE NONE OTHER THAN THE GLORY OF GOD ST. MATTHEW PASSION (1727), JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH ...

100 T the final development of the Baroque aesthetic known as the High Baroque was underway by around 1680. The new tonal system ...

101 dramatic resource. Breaking the bounds of pure accompaniment, the ever-more prominent orchestra could play a far more varied ...

102 HIGH BAROQUE RELIGIOUS CHORAL MUSIC motets were accompanied only by continuo, whereas the grands motets, such as those of Je ...

103 sermon at the Good Friday service (in either 1727 or 1729). Bach also collaborated with the Leipzig poet Picander to create ...

104 impact of the text. This attention to orchestration, which was far more prevalent in stage works of the time (which were oft ...

105 Bach and three of his sons pose for a portrait (1730) by Balthasar Denner. Bach had 20 children, and from the early 1500s to ...

106 See also: Corel li’s Concerti Grossi 80–81 ■ Water Music 84–89 ■ The Four Seasons 92–97 ■ C.P.E. Bach’s Flute Concerto in A ...

107 See also: Le bourgeois gentilhomme 70–71 ■ Orfeo ed Euridice 118 –119 ■ The Magic Flute 134 –137 ■ The Barber of Seville 14 ...

108 BACH IS LIKE AN ASTRONOMER WHO ... FINDS THE MOST WONDERFUL STARS THE ART OF FUGUE (1751), JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH I n contras ...

109 See also: Missa l’homme armé 42 ■ Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott 78–79 ■ St. Matthew Passion 98–105 ■ Elijah 170 –173 ■ Fauré ...

110 within far more rigorous structures, which allow for very rich listening experiences. The basic structure of a fugue require ...

111 Glenn Gould, a brilliant 20th-century Canadian pianist, seen here recording Bach’s keyboard music, was noted for his skill i ...

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T he 18th century was the “Age of Enlightenment” in Europe, a time when the old political order was giving way to a new, more in ...

director) at the Esterházy family’s rural estate in Hungary, producing music for twice-weekly concerts. Isolated from the wider ...

116 I n 1741, the composer Johann Stamitz moved from his home in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) to Mannheim, capital of the El ...

117 See also: Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor 128–131 ■ Symphonie fantastique 162–163 ■ Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 166 –169 ■ ...

118 T he opera Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck was first performed in Vienna in 1762. It is based on a familiar t ...