 | Bach, Johann Sebastian - Fantasia: "Ein feste Burg" for Wind Quartet BWV 720 Flûte, Hautbois, Cor et Basson |
VoirPDF : Fantasia: "Ein feste Burg" (BWV 720) for Wind Quartet (11 pages - 220.97 Ko)55x⬇ VoirPDF : Basson (64.64 Ko) VoirPDF : Flûte (77.59 Ko) VoirPDF : French Cor (63.41 Ko) VoirPDF : Hautbois (64.41 Ko) VoirPDF : Conducteur complet (146.13 Ko) MP3 : Fantasia: "Ein feste Burg" (BWV 720) for Wind Quartet 15x⬇ 174x
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| Compositeur : | Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750) | ||||
| Instrumentation : | Flûte, Hautbois, Cor et Basson | ||||
| Genre : | Baroque | ||||
| Arrangeur : Editeur : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
| Droit d'auteur : | Public Domain | ||||
| Ajoutée par magataganm, 18 Mai 2022 As organist at Weimar, Johann Sebastian Bach was charged with providing a harmonic underpinning for the singing of Lutheran chorale tunes chosen for each day. Bach wrote out many of these harmonizations, in part as instruction for younger composers (they are still used for this purpose). A derivation of this practice, Bach's conception of the organ chorale, as manifested in the chorale preludes, dates from 1713 -1714, about the time he became familiar with Vivaldi's concertos. Bach's Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book) contains chorale preludes for the church year written during the composer's service at Weimar (1708 - 1717). In about 1713, Bach began assembling the Orgel-Büchlein, and his earliest entries seem to be Her Christ, der ein'ge Gottes-Sohn, BWV 601, In dulci jubilo, BWV 608, Christ ist erstanden, BWV 627, and Heut' triumphieret Gottes Sohn, BWV 630. These were very original compositions, highly expressive miniatures based on a chorale melody, supported with refined counterpoint, and featuring highly condensed motivic writing. In the early 1740s Bach assembled a number of chorale preludes, possibly with the intention of publishing them as a set. These Achtzehn Choräle (Eighteen Chorales) BWV 651 - 668 were almost certainly written before 1723 and revised later. The Fantasia super Komm, heiliger Geist, BWV 651 is an especially impressive, extended elaboration of the chorale melody, which is in the pedal. The tune is treated in a less ornate fashion in the next prelude of the set (BWV 652). The highly convoluted Von Gott will ich nicht lassen, BWV 658 also contains the chorale melody in the pedal. The six Schübler chorales (BWV 645 - 650) are derived from Bach's cantatas and contain one of his most popular chorale preludes, on the melody Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645. The third part of Bach's Clavier-Übung, published in Leipzig in 1739, contains 21 chorale preludes (not all appear in every publication), many of which are for manuals only. Nine of these are meant for use during the Mass, while the others are for the catechism. Among the most impressive is Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV 671, which is in five voices with the chorale melody in the pedal. More complex is the first of two preludes on Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 686, which is in six parts, including two pedal parts. "Ein feste Burg" (A Mighty Fortress) can best be described as a chorale fantasia. This type of piece differs from other chorale preludes by its free treatment of the tune, often obscuring it with ornaments and improvisatory gestures. Ein feste Burg, based on Luther's hymn, is usually played on Reformation Sunday. The heading indicates it was written for a 3-manual organ, but the original registration only specifies a 16' Fagotto in the swell and a Sesquialtera in the great. The style of this piece recalls the North German school of Baroque composers, with dialogue exchanged between voices and various changes in dynamics and texture. The tunes alternate between both hands and the feet, and the strongest quotation of the melody sounds on the pedal (usually a Trumpet) in the middle of the piece. For many years, it was believed that Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott was one of the miscellaneous chorales of Johann Sebastian Bach that was transmitted by Bach's students. It is known in four extant manuscripts, and at one time was known in two others; thankfully the latter of these lost items was microfilmed before the original disappeared. The main manuscript version known to Bach's editors in the nineteenth century (D B Mus. ms. Bach P 802) was compiled before 1740 by Johann Gottfried Walther, Johann Ludwig Krebs and the latter's two brothers. There it appears as an unattributed work among a number of pieces known to have been written by Johann Sebastian Bach, and so it was included without comment in the 1893 collection of Bach's collected organ works issued in 1893 as BWV 720. The piece also appears in a manuscript collection(D B Mus. ms. Bach P 806) compiled by F. A. Grasnick around 1800, seemingly with no attribution. But recent examination of the manuscript revealed that in this case the author's name was placed at the end - Johann Michael Bach, Johann Sebastian's uncle, who died in 1694. Checking against the little known microfilm of the lost source, which was copied by Johann Gottfried Walther, it was confirmed that Walther did indeed indicate that Johann Michael Bach was the composer of this little setting of Ein feste Burg. Source: Allmusic (http://www.allmusic.com/composition/ein-feste-burg-ist -unser-gott-chorale-prelude-for-organ-by-johann-michael -bach-not-jsb-bwv-720-bc-k103-mc0002373183). Although originally written for Pipe Organ, I created this Interpretation of the Chorale Fantasia (BWV 720) "Ein feste Burg" (A Mighty Fortress) for Wind Quartet (Flute, Oboe, French Horn & Bassoon). Partition centrale : | Autres chorals et préludes (91 partitions) | | |||
