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German Baroque and Bach
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German Baroque and Bach · In Germany the Italian and French styles came together with Lutheran church music and a strong tradition of organists. Dieterich Buxtehude gave his famous evening concerts in Lübeck, while Johann Pachelbel and Georg Philipp Telemann wrote for church, court and city. In 1723 Johann Sebastian Bach became cantor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, where he wrote cantatas Sunday after Sunday, and in 1727 the Matthäus-Passion. In his hands several melodies interweave into one rich whole.
Listening
Listening tip. Hear how in the third Brandenburg Concerto three groups of strings keep passing a short motif to one another.
Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 3: Allegro (Concerto Italiano) · Johann Sebastian Bach, 1721
Matthäus-Passion: Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen (Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe) · Johann Sebastian Bach, 1727
Kanon in D (Musica Antiqua Köln) · Johann Pachelbel, 1690
See also
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
- Georg Friedrich Händel
- Concerto and sonata
- French Baroque
- Palestrina and the Roman school
- Symphonic rock
- Viennese Classicism
- Neoclassicism
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