Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718-1795)
- Concerto (B-Dur) per il Clavicembalo (1757)
World Premiere Recording
Performers: Pau NG on Sibelius with samples of a German harpsichord (18th Century)
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German critic, journalist, theorist and composer. Although little is
known about his musical training, he was resident in Paris in 1746,
where he became friends with François Marie Arouet 'Voltaire' and Jean
le Rond d'Alembert, among others. Shortly after his return to Germany,
he published his first work, 'Der critische Musicus an der Spree', which
was followed in 1754 by his most famous and widely distributed journal,
'Historisch-kritische Beyträge zur Aufnahme der Musik'. In 1752 he
wrote an extended preface for Johann Sebastian Bach’s Kunst der Fuge
under the auspices of publisher Breitkopf. Economic difficulties were
overcome in 1763 when he was given a post at the Prussian Lottery, three
years later becoming its director. His final major work, the 'Kritische
Briefe über die Tonkunst', published between 1760 and 1764, was equally
significant in establishing his reputation as a critic and theorist. As
a composer, he showed that he was one of the significant figures in the
Berlin School. He composed 185 Lieder (many of which were published in
anthologies he edited), six sonatas for harpsichord (c.1755), a
collection of fugues (1777) and two collections of chorale preludes.
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