Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795) - Klavierkonzert 'Concerto Grosso' Es-Dur (1792)
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Composer: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795)
Work: Klavierkonzert 'Concerto Grosso' Es-Dur (1792)
Performers: Christinе Schοrnshеim (pianoforte); Frеiburgе Barockorchеster; Gοttfriеd von dеr GοItz (direction)
00:00 Allegro
12:47 Romanza
22:34 Rondo, Allegro
Painting: Peter Jacob Horemans (1700-1776) - Konzert im Garten
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
(Leipzig, 21 June 1732 - Bückeburg, 26 Jan 1795)
Composer, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and Anna Magdalena Bach (1701-1760). He is known as the ‘Bückeburg Bach’. He received his musical education from his father. After leaving the Thomasschule, he is thought to have studied law briefly, but there is no record of his matriculation at Leipzig University. At the express wish of Count Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe he was appointed harpsichordist to the court in Bückeburg, where he may at first have been subordinate to the court organist Ludolf Münchhausen. In June 1751 his brother Carl Philipp Emanuel visited him in the retinue of Frederick the Great when the king awarded the Order of the Great Eagle to Count Wilhelm. On 8 January 1755 Bach had married Münchhausen’s daughter Lucia Elisabeth. Bach took this opportunity to apply, successfully, for the vacant post of organist at the German church in Altona, then under Danish rule, but for unknown reasons he never took it up. On 18 February 1759 he was appointed Konzertmeister of the Bückeburg Hofkapelle. However, court life did not return to normal until after the Peace of Hubertusburg, and the return of Count Wilhelm from his military missions in Portugal in November 1764. In the period up to 1770 Bach wrote symphonies, trio sonatas, a number of Italian arias and cantatas and perhaps his most important work of this time, the large-scale cantata Cassandra. After Count Wilhelm’s marriage to Marie Barbara Eleonore zur Lippe-Biesterfeld on 12 November 1765, Protestant sacred music was performed at the Bückeburg court. Perhaps encouraged by his successful application to Altona, Bach applied on 24 June 1767 to succeed the late G.P. Telemann in Hamburg. He was, in fact, one of the short-listed candidates, but his half-brother Carl Philipp Emanuel gained the appointment. Between 1765 and 1773 Johann Christoph Friedrich set the best-known Protestant oratorio texts of his time. The tendency towards sacred vocal composition increased with the arrival in Bückeburg of J.G. Herder, who was court preacher and superintendent there from 1771 to 1776.
The death of Countess Marie Barbara in 1776, Herder’s appointment to Weimar in the same year and the death of Count Wilhelm in 1777 marked a watershed in the intellectual life of the Bückeburg court. In spring 1778 Bach asked for three months’ leave to visit his brother Johann Christian in London. A series of string quartets and a set of six keyboard concertos, printed in London with dedications to members of the house of Schaumburg-Lippe, show how rapidly J.C.F. Bach adapted his music to English tastes. He also brought back an English piano from his travels, so his keyboard compositions after 1778 were not necessarily for the harpsichord. In 1780 Count Philipp Ernst took as his second wife Princess Juliane zu Hessen-Philippsthal, who was particularly fond of the fine arts. At the Princess’s wish, attendance at court concerts was now open to the citizens of Bückeburg and to visitors. Forkel regarded the little Kapelle as one of the finest in Germany. Juliane took lessons in foreign languages and drawing, and studied the keyboard with J.C.F. Bach. Among the better known of his pupils (in addition to his son Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst and C.F. Geyer) were the future Thomaskantor A.E. Müller and perhaps Adolf, Baron von Knigge. For teaching purposes Bach wrote a number of pedagogically valuable keyboard works, including the Sechs leichte Clavier-Sonaten, variations, concertos and sonatas for four hands. The arrival in Bückeburg about 1793 of the Bohemian musician Franz Neubauer presented Bach with unaccustomed competition in the last years of his life. It inspired him to write new works (including a dozen large-scale symphonies and several double concertos) but it also intensified the latent depression from which he had been suffering since the death of his half-brother Carl Philipp Emanuel and which may have hastened the course of the chest ailment that brought about his death on 26 January 1795. In his obituary his friend Karl Gottlieb Horstig, superintendent at Bückeburg from 1793, described him as an industrious composer, always ready to be of service, and praised his upright character and ‘kindness of heart’. - เพลง
Bellissimo. Veit Bach (ca. 1550 - Wechmar, March 8, 1619), baker and miller - Pfeiferbrüder - was the musical ancestor of the widely branched German musical Bach family, with J. S. Bach as its most famous descendant. In the 14th to 18th centuries - Town pipers joined together in guilds; usually called “Pfeiferbrüder” (Pifferbruder) in southern Germany. The town pipers' tasks were to provide music for the town's festivities. A master took on journeymen and apprentices who had to learn all the common old instruments from him. Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759-1845) the last "Bach" - composer - wisely said: "Heredity can tend to run out of ideas."
This is gorgeous stuff! And perhaps a hint as to why JCF is underplayed is because a significant portion his output was lost in WWII when the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung in Berlin was blitzed. We must enjoy what we have.
Muy hermoso.
One of the most severely neglected composers in history. Just a shade less expert and inspired than Haydn and Mozart. Simply love his stuff and I scour TH-cam and Amazon for anything I can get my hand on.
The use of both the harpsichord and fortepiano in this performance is really interesting. Love it.
The romanza is utterly charming. Another CD ordered as a direct result of this channel!
Just took a chance, to look at some of the musical offerings of you tube. I am very happy that I did, and found what I consider to be a musical diamond. I love the painting!
This holds the middle between CPE and JC at times.
00:00 1. Allegro
12:47 2. Romanza
22:34 3. Rondo: Allegro
wunderbar originell und sprühend!
Por fin un pianoforte que suena como fue realmente: la transición entre el clave y el piano
Ty beautiful - love the ornaments from this period blended with more genteel and romantic melodies- great forte piano sound !
Indescribable comfort
Indescribable feeling
And
something indescribable
What an excellent work! We get a good appreciation of his considerable compositional ability considering a large proportion of his output was destroyed in WW2. Visiting his brother obviously stimulated his creativity in this genre. Very energetic opening with a poignant slow movement.
thank you for uploading! a genius opus - he was as old as Joseph Haydn and this work sounds a little bit like Joseph Haydn
Essa orquestra com forte presença das palhetas segue o estilo Hamburgues de Telemann com uma pitada de Haydn; as trompas aos pares vieram da influência Tcheca. O piano sola livre com velocidade.
Your channel is just marvelous. A wealth of composers and their music and information I did not know. Most everything you put on your channel is very enjoyable. What I really like is the fact that you upload in HD. Thank you so much for all your hard work.
Thanks!! The paintings deserve HD 😉
BR-JCFB C 43 \ "Concerto Grosso" in E-flat major - before September 1792 (Wf II/5) (1792)
Very nice! 💖
Increible compositor que no se deshace del barroco, es clasico y cuando usa el piano es preromantico. Un concierto grosso con cembalo y piano, Estos son los hijos de Bach y la genialidad que tenian
Giudizio condivisibile!
Il commento pittorico mi sembra quanto mai adatto a confermare questo giudizio di compresenza di stili!
This is so cool!
The most obscure son of Bach turned out to be a very capabal composer! I was aware of his other somewhat known piano concerto (in D-major I believe) and listened to a few chamber works, but I could never imagine that he wrote 12 large scale symphonies and 7 double concerti towarts the ebd of his life! Are the works published? Do manuscripts excist? Surely not anything of this is recorded? Why is he so overlooked?
Out of his 27 symphonies, only 8 survived in manuscript and they all have been recorded. 4 out of surviving 14 concertos were also recorded, as well as some cantatas, sacred and secular. Almost his entire chamber works were recorded too. However, only 2 of his keyboard works (130 and then some) are available on disc.
Jean-Baptiste De Prez
If the Wikipedia details are correct - which seems likely in this case - it appears that a significant proportion of JCF’s extant scores were moved to Berlin in 1917, but unfortunately were destroyed at the end of WW2.
I suspect any assessment we may want to make about JCF as a composer will therefore be limited by being only able to see or hear an unusually small percentage of his output.
Those works we do have do not shame the name ‘Bach’, though there is little that is particularly innovative, and his music is quite conservative.
JCF visited his brother JC in London in 1778, and this is I think reflected in some of his later music.
However, JCF seems destined to be always the least known of his generation of musical Bachs.
This piece can be found in Bach-Digital. www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalSource_source_00005633
Other manuscripts of his works can also be found there, along with the works of his brothers and father.
@Alcina The concerto itself lacks the defining traits of a concerto grosso, so I think the name "Concerto Grosso" might simply refer to the length of the concerto. It is a piano concerto at its heart.
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That's a very late example of a concerto grosso, if the year given is correct.
It is! The autograph manuscript seems to confirm that this was written just three years before his death.
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Doesn't measure up to J.C. Bach fortepiano concertos; really foursquare. Mozart had written his concertos when this was written! Perhaps he shines in other musical genres.
By the measure of beautiful music in general, it is quite beautiful.