Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758)
- Ouverture (B-Dur) | a | 2 Hautb. | 2 Violin | Viola
| Basson | e | Cembalo (c.1740)
Performers: Mаin-Barockorchester Frankfurt; Martin Jοpp (conductor)
Further info: Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) - Magnificat (c.1724)
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German composer. Son of the Kantor Friedrich Georg Fasch (1663-1700), he
was recruited at age 13 by Johann Kuhnau for the St. Thomas School in
Leipzig. He founded a collegium musicum at the university there in 1708
through which Fasch became familiar with the Italian concertos of
Antonio Vivaldi and others. Despite having little formal training in
composition, he was invited to compose operas by Duke Moritz Wilhelm of
Saxe-Zeit in 1711 and 1712, and, thereafter, he held positions as
violinist in Bayreuth in 1714, as organist in Greiz until 1721, and then
as Kapellmeister in Prague, before reluctantly accepting the same post
in Zerbst in 1722. He was not altogether happy with the strict Lutheran
regime there, but although he visited elsewhere, particularly Dresden,
he remained in Zerbst for the rest of his life. His friend Georg Philipp
Telemann gave performances of his church music in Hamburg, and Johann
Sebastian Bach prepared several transcriptions of his overtures for
performances with the Leipzig Collegium Musicum. Fasch's innovative
orchestral writing foreshadowed the Classical style. Most of his vocal
compositions (13 masses, 66 church cantatas, 9 church cantata cycles, 14
serenatas, and 4 operas) are lost, but his instrumental works survive
in manuscript and represent an important pre-classical oeuvre: 87
overtures, 18 solo concertos, 46 ensemble concertos, 18 trio sonatas, 12
sonatas a quattro and 19 symphonies. After Georg Philipp Telemann, he
probably was the most famous German composer toward the end of the
Baroque. His son Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736-1800) was
harpsichordist and composer at the court of Frederick the Great in
Berlin from 1756.
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