This cantata is known as the “Hunting Cantata”. The horns and continuo open the piece. The Bach Reader. Owing to the fertile soil of the region, the area of Köthen is unusually rich in archaeological discoveries. [7] During this time, Bach wrote many instrumental works like his violin pieces and the Brandenburg Concertos, some of his most widely performed pieces today[8]. The piece was a birthday gift from William Ernest, Duke of Weimar, to his neighboring ruler, Duke Christian. The B section finishes off the rest of the text where Palos begins her parallel on sheep and government. The aria is in the form of a de capo aria. Bach-Archiv Leipzig). Change ), https://www.bach-leipzig.de/en/bach-archive/carl-philipp-emanuel-bach, https://www.bach-leipzig.de/en/bach-archive/johann-christian-bach, https://www.bach-leipzig.de/en/bach-archive/wilhelm-friedemann-bach, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.net.ucf.edu/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278195, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278195?rskey=fF8ly6, Short Annotated Bibliography for the Natural Horn, The Development of the Horn Before and During the 19th Century. https://www.liveabout.com/johann-sebastian-bach-profile-723877 The first documentary mention of "Cothene" dates to 1115; by 1194 it was already known as a market town, becoming a seat of the princes of Anhalt. Title: Johann Sebastian Bach: 1 CHAPTER 39. Later in the cantata, the ninth movement is an aria consisting of two recorders (flutes), soprano (Pales) and continuo. In the end he had to let the musician go. It can be seen on DVD in the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra's recording of the Brandenburg concertos. In the Baroque era, the horn was a valve-less hunting instrument. Köthen is the location of the main campus and the administrative centre of the regional university, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences/Hochschule Anhalt which is especially strong in information technology. Oxford Music Online. He received musical training from his father in composition and keyboard playing. Since 1967 a bi-annual Bach Festival has been held at Köthen, in the various halls of the palace as well as the local churches. As a teacher, Bach would compose pieces and entire books for keyboard playing and practice. Bach was the most influential figure of the huge family of Bach musicians. Retrieved Oct 9, 2018, from http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.net.ucf.edu/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278195. Cöthen (1717-1723) At Cöthen, Bach worked for Prince Leopold. Johann Sebastian Bach ; Instrumental Music in Weimar and Cöthen; 2 Johann Sebastian Bach. And there he remained for the rest of his life. Bach worked in Köthen from 1717 to 1723 as Kapellmeister for Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Köthen. In 1717 he was offered a job in the town of Cöthen, where he would earn an even better salary. The A section of the piece is primarily in B-flat major. The second movement of this work is an aria consisting of two horns, a soprano soloist representing Diana and continuo. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. After his time working for Prince Leopold of Anhalt in Cöthen, Johann Sebastian Bach took a substantial drop in salary and public standing to work as Cantor in Leipzig. His uncle left him 50 gulden, which was about half of his salary. [12] Most that applied had a difficult time accepting the Leipzig post because one of the duties of Kantor included teaching Latin. Retrieved from Bach Archiv Leipzig: https://www.bach-leipzig.de/en/bach-archive/carl-philipp-emanuel-bach. In 1855 his disciple Arthur Lutze opened a palatial homoeopathic clinic. Administrative subdivisions (dt. (n.d.). Bach-Archiv Leipzig. (1945). (n.d.). The youngest of the Bach family, Johann Christian was also fairly successful in establishing a career in music.. Johann Christian studied music in Italy with Padre Martini[5]. Many of his keyboard compositions and books remain an integral part of the keyboard repertoire to this day. Retrieved from Bach Archiv Leipzig: https://www.bach-leipzig.de/en/bach-archive/wilhelm-friedemann-bach, Wolff, C., & Emery, W. (2001). While in Cöthen, Bach was paid the second largest salary in the court[6]due to his outstanding reputation as a composer and organist. Monuments to prince Ludwig I, J.S. remnants of the medieval city wall with two prominent towers at the former gates to Halle and Magdeburg, respectively. It is also the birthplace of the composer Carl Friedrich Abel who, together with Johann Christian Bach, founded the popular "Bach-Abel Concerts" in London, the first subscription concerts in England. The flutes interject with their opening melody throughout the A section. Johann Sebastian Bach, Oratorio di Natale (Weihnachts-Oratorium) Registrato il 20 dicembre 2019, ... Composta a Cöthen, verso il 1720, in un periodo particolarmente fecondo per Bach, la Terza Partita in Mi maggiore, insieme ad altre due Partite, e a tre sonate per violino solo, è giunta ai giorni nostri attraverso un manoscritto originale dello stesso Bach o di Anna Maria Magdalena. [3] Wilhelm Friedemann is known as the ‘Halle Bach’, which is in reference to his work that he did as the music director and organist at the Church of Our Lady in Halle. Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin – not to be confused with the six accompanied violin sonatas written at more or less the same time – were composed in Cöthen in 1720. New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc. Hoffmann, K. (2012). [10] His Hunting Cantata BWV 208 is one of the most popular and unique of his cantatas because it includes uncommon instruments like the natural horn. While in Weimar and Cöthen, Bach was able to develop multiple facets of his career. Bach & Prince Leopold: The vast majority of educated people today know the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The earliest signs of human habitation date from the early Stone Age about 250,000 years ago and evidence of every succeeding historical period may be found in the collections of the local Prehistorical Museum. J.S. Three of his children grew up to be incredible musicians with prosperous careers: Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Phillip Emanuel, and Johann Christian. While in Weimar and Cöthen, Bach was able to develop multiple facets of his career. Finding recordings of pieces by Bach on period instruments and with smaller choirs can be quite difficult but worth the trouble because those performances will usually perform in the correct temperaments and styles of the Baroque Era. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Bach began his move to Leipzig when Kuhnau, the Kantor of the Thomasschule, had passed away in 1722. Bach, Johann Sebastian. His sacred music, organ and choral works, and other instrumental music had an enthusiasm and seeming freedom that concealed immense rigor. Eventually the piece cadences on a B-flat major chord and we enter the B section. Growing up an orphan predetermined a life of constant fighting for survival for Bach. ( Log Out /  Köthen was chartered in 1200. He was the oldest son of J. S. Bach. He grew up in a musical background but seems to have been largely self-taught on the keyboard and as a composer. His sacred music, organ and choral works, and other instrumental music had an enthusiasm and seeming freedom that concealed immense rigor. [10] Klaus Hoffmann, J.S Bach Collegium Japan, AB, Åkersberga, BIS Records, 2012. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. The town has long been known to classical music enthusiasts as the place of origin of Johann Sebastian Bach's best-known secular works, including the Brandenburg concertos and the Well-Tempered Clavier. Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 in Eisenach – 28 July 1750 in Leipzig; pronounced BAHK) was a German composer and organist. J.S Bach Collegium Japan. He was born in Eisenach, the youngest of eight. His decision to move to Leipzig was a risky one because he accepted a position that although would pay more money, it would be a social step down from the work he was doing as a Kapellmeister to a job less prestigious as a Kantor. Johann Sebastian Bach was better known as a virtuoso organist than as a composer in his day. 90 Es Reisset Euch Ein Schrecklich Ende, BWV 90: I Aria - "Es Reisset Euch Ein Schrecklich Ende" [Tenor], Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 and more. In 1713, Bach wrote Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre, Jagd BWV 208. Schloss Köthen has been fully restored except for a small side wing bombed in 1944. Eventually Bach was approached about the position and accepted the position despite the unfavorable duties. Meža Vilks For Prince Leopold, hiring Bach was a real coup, and for Bach, the newly expanded Cöthen court capelle provided a much more attractive and promising situation than Weimar. The composer Johann Sebastian Bach lived at two addresses during his stay in Köthen, Germany, while he was working for Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen. City hall, the main part of which was built in the early 20th century. Johann Christian became a successful performer and composer of sacred music and operas. [9]Martin Geck, Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work, Harcourt Inc., 2000, pg. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. AB, Åkersberga: BIS Records. While in Weimar, Bach was the director of music and eventually hired as the organist for the ducal court. Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen (29 November 1694 – 19 November 1728) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Köthen. Johann Sebastian Bach’s work in Weimar and Cöthen was essential in leading him to his most significant job in Leipzig. Köthen (Anhalt) ([ˈkøːtn̩] (listen))[2] is a city in Germany. Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 O.S. The Ziethe flows through the north part of the town. In a triple meter, the piece is constantly moving forward. Concluding his time in Cöthen, Bach had his eyes set on a very reputable job of Kantor of the Thomasschule in Leipzig. Bach's biography: Prince Leopold's court in Cöthen (1717 - 1723) A friendship with Prince Leopold, the tragic passing of his first wife Maria Barbara, a marriage to his second wife Anna Magdalena - Bach's years in Cöthen were both eventful and challenging. Dissatisfied with life in Cöthen, Bach’s hunt for a new job eventually took him to Leipzig in 1723 as music director and cantor of St Thomas Church in Leipzig. He wrote many compositions for keyboard playing and published a very successful book on keyboard playing titled, An Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments. Owing to the fertile soil of the region, the area of Köthen is unusually rich in archaeological discoveries. The de capo is entered at the end and the A section is repeated and the piece ends. While the continuo is pushing a descending F major scale in fast sixteenth notes, the horns come in with their ornamented arpeggiations. Many great musicians went and applied to this position, like Georg Philip Telemann, who was at the time hailed as one of the most famous German musicians and had done remarkable work in Leipzig before but also in Hamburg. He also wrote pieces for solo instruments, including some of his finest violin works. [1] Wolff, C. Emery, W. (2018, October). These travels led to two things: renown as a well-respected organist and many business opportunities. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Then, late in 1721, just after his second marriage to Anna Magdalena Wilcke, the Prince himself married but, alas for Bach, chose a consort who showed no interest in music. Naumann Museum of ornithology and Prehistorical Museum, both are also situated in different wings of the palace. In 2013, the international homoeopathic medical society, Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis, relocated its main operations to Köthen, so the city now is kind of a "world's capital of homoeopathy". Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homoeopathy, practised in Köthen from 1821 to 1834, and during this period he published many of his best-known works. https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278195?rskey=fF8ly6. His sacred music, organ and choral works, and other instrumental music had an enthusiasm and seeming freedom that concealed immense rigor. Retrieved from Bach Archiv Leipzig: https://www.bach-leipzig.de/en/bach-archive/johann-christian-bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. [6] Christoph Wolff and Walter Emery, Bach, Johann Sebastian, Oxford Music Online, 2001. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. First came the death of his wife, Maria Barbara in 1719. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. This B section is primarily in the dominant key of F major with touches of C minor and a lot of sequencing in the flutes and continuo. 23. It is worth noting that today, these pieces are usually performed on modern versions of the instruments of Bach’s day. Only fifty of Bach’s secular cantatas have been discovered. Listen to music by Johann Sebastian Bach on Apple Music. Köthen located to the south of Magdeburg, north of Halle, west of Dessau and east of Bernburg (Saale). Coethen was the German principality where Bach spent six years as court composer, and, after 48 hours of him morning, noon, and night, I have a clearer idea of … Focusing on stories and characters from classical mythology, the story of the piece features characters like Diana, the goddess of the hunt, Pales, a shepherd deity, Endymion, a shepherd and hunter, and Pan, the god of the wild and nature. During his time in both Weimar and Cöthen, Bach was applying to posts in other towns like Halle, Brandenburg and Hamburg, but refused these jobs for monetary reasons. JS Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006 Thomas Zehetmair (baroque violin) ECM 481 8558 120:18 mins (2 discs) Advertisement. The piece calls for SATB soloists and choir, two horns, 2 recorders, 2 oboes, taille (Baroque tenor oboe), bassoon and a small string orchestra with continuo. Today, he is best remembered for employing Johann Sebastian Bach as his Kapellmeister between 1717 and 1723. Bach spent a considerable amount of time traveling to different towns inspecting organs and giving small concerts. Bach’s travels put him in contact with many well-respected musicians of his day. ( Log Out /  His secular compositions still reflected his deep commitment to his faith with Bach often writing the initials I.N.J. He lived in the last part of the Baroque period. (n.d.). The work has fifteen movements consisting of an assortment of recitatives, choruses and arias. Johann Sebastian Bach was better known as a virtuoso organist than as a composer in his day. Another concert hall was opened in 2008 in the palace complex. In 1707, while living inMühlhausen, Bach experienced the death of his maternal uncle, Tobias Lämmerhirt[1]. The money he inherited helped facilitate his marriage to his second cousin, Maria Barbara Bach. Wilhelm Friedemann was known as an excellent organist, most known for his improvisation. [7] Christoph Wolff and Walter Emery, Bach, Johann Sebastian, Oxford Music Online, 2001. Dezember 2019", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Köthen_(Anhalt)&oldid=995512101, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox German location with unknown parameters, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, The town of Köthen with its subdivisions Porst and Elsdorf (since 1961) and Merzien, Zehringen, and Hohsdorf (since 1994), Baasdorf with its subdivisions Arensdorf and Gahrendorf, St. Agnus Church (~1699), where Johann Sebastian Bach worshipped. : Ortsteile) of the municipality are: With the administrative restructuring in 2004, the following villages were incorporated: Köthen also has partnerships (Städtefreundschaften) with two fellow German cities: Location of Köthen (Anhalt) within Anhalt-Bitterfeld district, Towns and municipalities in the district of, Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, BWV 244a, "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden – Stand: 31. A court poet from Weimar named Salomon Franck wrote the text of this piece. https://www.bach-leipzig.de/en/bach-archive/johann-christian-bach. ( Log Out /  The city has become the national center of homeopathy, location of congresses, and the seat of the new European Homeopathic Library. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the … This includes his work as a teacher, in organ playing and rebuilding, composing and his diplomatic pursuits with town officials. The first of these properties has been demolished, so Bach House (German: Bachhaus Köthen) normally refers to the extant building which the composer occupied in the period 1719–23. Bach wrote most of his organ works in Weimar. Industry includes high-tech engineering, manufacture of cranes, as well as chemicals, printing, and foodstuffs. This aria embodies the rush of hunting. Hunters would wrap the horn around their bodies or carry them around and use the limited choice of harmonics to communicate with their fellow hunters. A German composer of the Baroque period, Bach is well known for such compositions as the Brandenburg Concerti, The Art of Fugue, and a multitude of Cantatas, including the famous Toccata and Fugue in D Minor 1. Johann Sebastian Bach’s work in Weimar and Cöthen was essential in leading him to his most significant job in Leipzig. Johann Sebastian Bach - Robert Hill (9) ‎– Bach As Teacher - Keyboard Works From The Cöthen Period Label: Hänssler Edition Bachakademie ‎– CD 92.107 Having just been married and expecting children, Bach‘s eyes were set on a better job that would allow him to provide for his family in Weimar, and a community that would accept him for his ideas on harmony and performance. The Duke was angry and did not want him to go but Bach insisted, so the Duke put Bach in prison for a month. was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. "Last Supper" by, Catholic St. Mary Church (~1830), build by Gottfried Bandhauer, it is one of the most prominent sacral buildings of the 19th century in northern Germany; organ by Anton Feith (1872–1929); crypt with the sarcophagus of. [11] Klaus Hoffmann, J.S Bach Collegium Japan, AB, Åkersberga, BIS Records, 2012. [9] Additionally, this piece is the earliest surviving secular cantata written by Bach. It is the capital of the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt, about 30 km (19 mi) north of Halle. Anna Magdalena was the daughter of a court trumpet player in Zietz. In Cöthen, Bach worked for Prince Leopold who loved and understood music. This short paper is from an independent study I did on J.S Bach, the assignment was to discuss a cantata of his and some historical background. Johann Christian Bach. The best recordings of JS Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos; What was Bach’s last job? Its Hall of Mirrors where Bach's music is now often performed is a popular attraction. [2] Soon after the death of his first wife, Bach remarried a professional singer named Anna Magdalena Wilcke. Bach had twenty children but only ten of them survived in adulthood. ( Log Out /  Bach, Hahnemann, Naumann, Angelika Hartmann, Fritz Weineck, and, Hans-Ulrich Brand (born 1930), a former member of the, Carl Christoph Wilhelm Fleischer (1727–1787), architect, Robert Friedrich Goetze (1881–1940), architect, Angelika Hartmann (1829–1917), a reformist educationist of the late 19th and early 20th century, Heinz Prokop (born 1952), handball player and coach, This page was last edited on 21 December 2020, at 13:04. In the north of the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district begins the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve. – 28 July 1750 N.S.) (2020, November 16). [13], Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The next son to have reached great notability as a musician was C. P. E Bach. Find top songs and albums by Johann Sebastian Bach, including Cantata No. In English, German place-name is often spelt anachronistically as Cöthen, a practice that has become standard in the literature relating to the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach, who resided and worked there from 1717 to 1723. The flutes introduce the piece, but the focus is Palos, who enters a few measures in working through the first half of the text. He composed many cantatas for special celebrations like birthdays, holidays and weddings. Bach’s time in Leipzig would change his life for better and for worse because in Leipzig he would be given the opportunity to flourish compositionally, but the trade-off would end up being ongoing issues with authorities and mediocre duties as a Kantor. Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [ O.S. Köthen is situated in a fertile area with rich black soil suitable to the cultivation of sugar-beets. 83. Born in central Germany from a family with a long musical tradition, J.S. Hahnemann's home is now open to tourists, and includes an actual working homoeopathic practice. Cöthen, who offered Bach the position of Kapellmeister in Cöthen. This includes his work as a teacher, in organ playing and rebuilding, composing and his diplomatic pursuits with town officials. Bach wrote most of his organ works in Weimar. [12] Christoph Wolff and Walter Emery, Bach, Johann Sebastian, Oxford Music Online, 2001. Johann Sebastian Bach. For over two centuries (1603–1847) it was the capital of the independent principality (from 1806, duchy) of Anhalt-Köthen. While on a two-month trip to Karlsbad with Prince Leopold of Cöthen, Bach arrived back home to Maria Barbara having recently been buried due to an unexpected and mysterious sickness. The pioneering ornithologist Johann Friedrich Naumann was born near Köthen and was employed at the ducal court for more than two decades (c. 1810-1835). Neighbours they might have been, but the social and religious attitudes prevailing in Weimar and Cöthen were worlds apart, and this was naturally reflected in the music Bach was required to provide. But just four years later he was starting to look elsewhere again. Prince Leopold would take Bach and many other musicians on travels to different towns nearby to perform. https://www.bach-leipzig.de/en/bach-archive/carl-philipp-emanuel-bach, [5] Johann Christian Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach was better known as a virtuoso organist than as a composer in his day. His sacred music, organ and choral works, and other instrumental music had an enthusiasm and seeming freedom that concealed immense rigor. Bach’s seemingly contented life at Cöthen was clouded by two events. [13] Christoph Wolff and Walter Emery, Bach, Johann Sebastian, Oxford Music Online, 2001. Pales parallels the peaceful image of sheep grazing to the calm happiness of a country being ruled by good monarchs[11]. Mr. Geck, a professor at the University of Dortmund in Germany who has written extensively about Bach, is a committed and erudite scholar, and his "Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work" - published in German in 2000, the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, and now translated into English by John Hargraves - is a consummation of much of his own life and work. Diana comes in and exclaims how hunting is an act that joys the gods and that hunting is a suitable quality for a hero. Bach first studied music, the humanities, and theology in private Lutheran church schools at Eisenach, Ohrdruf, and Lüneburg. His well-renowned collection of almost 1300 specimen and drawings of European birds is now the main part of an ornithological museum that is also situated in the palace. While at Cöthen, Bach devoted much of his time to instrumental music, composing concertos for orchestras, dance suites and sonatas for multiple instruments. The city is conveniently located at the hub of the Magdeburg–Leipzig, Dessau–Köthen and Köthen–Aschersleben railways. Johann Sebastian Bach was better known as a virtuoso organist than as a composer in his day. [3] Hans David and Arthur Mendel, The Bach Reader, New York, Norton & Company Inc., 1945, pg. To the distaste of his brothers, he also converted to Catholicism in order to be more marketable as a musician. (2020, November 16). His time was occupied repairing keyboard instruments and composing keyboard and orchestra works. David, H. 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