Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749)
- Ouverture ex D (1729)
Performers: Zimbler Sinfonietta; Richard Burgin (1892-1981, conductor)
Further info: Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749) - Die Orchestersuiten
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German composer and organist, son of Johann Egidius Bach (1645-1716). He
studied with his father and about 1695 took up his first post, as
organist at the Kaufmannskirche in Erfurt; in 1699 he went to Magdeburg,
and in 1703 he replaced his kinsman Johann Christoph Bach as town
organist and court harpsichordist in Eisenach, a post which Johann
Christoph’s son Johann Nicolaus Bach had declined. Repeated rises in
salary show the esteem in which he was held, particularly in the court
Kapelle, which was directed by Telemann in 1708-12. On 6 August 1716
Johann Bernhard Bach married Johanna Sophia Siefer. Three children were
born into the family. In 1741 the ducal orchestra was dissolved, which
meant that Johann Bernhard continued to work exclusively as choirmaster
and organist, until his death, apparently still receiving the ducal
allowance of 100 Thalers per year. His only extant works are
instrumental; some of the organ works are in copies made by his pupils
in Erfurt, who included J.G. Walther (according to Walther himself).
Johann Sebastian Bach evidently valued his orchestral suites, for he had
five of them copied (he himself was involved in some of the copying)
for his collegium musicum in Leipzig. J.S. Bach’s obituary notice of
1754 says that Johann Bernhard ‘composed many beautiful overtures in the
manner of Telemann’, no doubt referring particularly to the forces he
employed (dessus, haute-contre, taille and continuo) and to the
programmatic movement titles (‘Les plaisirs’, ‘La toge’) in the French
tradition.
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