Happy Birthday, Johann!
Today in 1865 in Eisenach, Germany, Johann Sebastian Bach was born. The world would be a poorer place without him.
My current favorite cd for the office is The Goldberg Variations, scored for a string quartet.
The Writer's Alamanac for today includes this note:
He started out as a professional church organist, and he developed a reputation as one of the best organists in the country. Members of his congregation were annoyed by his habit of improvising while playing hymns, which made it difficult for people to sing along.It also has this one, which is inspiring and depressing in turn:
[In Leipzig, h]e had to write a cantata every month, so in order to get ahead of the deadlines, he wrote one every week for the first two years.
4 Comments:
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At 3:29 AM, March 22, 2007
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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At 5:13 AM, March 22, 2007
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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At 7:52 PM, March 22, 2007
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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At 7:58 PM, March 22, 2007
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->I'd like to hear the Goldbergs by string quartet; I'll have to have a look for it. Which quartet does it?
My favourite is the B-minor Mass — what a wonderful piece! I have two recordings of it, and prefer the one by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
You know, it's more than a quartet - I should have just said "for strings". I'm away from the office ... let me see can I find the thing. Yes, here it is at amazon. It's a wonderful recording.
Thanks; I just added it to my Amazon wish list.
(And it looks like you have a spam comment to delete on the JRR Tolkien entry.... Sigh. And that's with the annoying CAPTCHA.)
At least it's not that woman who was telling me how to make people's birthday parties special by using her website :-)
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