Johann Christoph Bach - Meine Freundin, du bist schon; JS Bach - Actus tragicus
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Label: Etcetera
Cat No: KTC1548
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st January 2017
Contents
Works
Meine Freundin, du bist schonCantata BWV106 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' (Actus tragicus)
Keyboard Concerto no.6 (with 2 flutes/violins) in F major, BWV1057
Bone Jesu
Artists
Bach PlusConductor
Bart NaessensAbout
J.S. Bach would definitely have been pleased when he received a number of manuscripts of works by earlier family members in that same year. The collection included sacred cantatas by Johann Michael and Johann Christoph Bach as well as motets by Georg Christoph Bach, Johann Bach, Adam Drese and a few anonymous composers. This gift, later to be known as the Altbachisches Archiv, was more than welcome, given its contents. The feverish activity with which Bach began his career as Cantor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig in 1723 and during which he had composed a new cantata every week for more than two years had long since quietened down; new music to be performed was more than welcome. Bach soon had several of the cantatas performed in Leipzig; he did not need to have any worries about their quality, for they all bore the hallmark of the Bach family. The Altbachisches Archiv contains a cantata by the composer and family member whose talents Johann Sebastian valued the highest of all the musicians and composers who comprised the Bach family: his father’s cousin Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703). This Johann Christoph spent his whole life in Eisenach, where he fulfilled a double position as city organist and harpsichordist to the local court. His career did not always proceed smoothly, for he believed that he was underpaid for the work that he did and often wrangled with the city fathers about this. The cantatas by Johann Christoph in the Archiv contain the greatest number of annotations of J.S. Bach himself; this is a clear sign of his great interest in them and of their revival. Carl Philipp Emanuel also praises Johann Christoph in Johann Sebastian’s obituary, stating that he had a talent for the creation of fine musical thoughts and the expression of words.
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