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# **J.S Bach - Open Criticism and Institutional Unpopularity** From the very beginning of his career, **Johann Sebastian Bach** showed a trait that would repeatedly bring him into conflict with authorities: **he openly criticized…

## **J.S.BACH: The Hand That Already Knew Order** From a remarkably early age, **Johann Sebastian Bach** revealed a trait that would remain constant throughout his life: **an extraordinary precision of handwriting**, reflecting not merely…

# **J.S.Bach: The Organ as a Living Mechanism** From his earliest childhood, **Johann Sebastian Bach** was exposed not only to the *sound* of the organ, but to its **physical and mechanical reality**. In the…

# **Baroque Music Written for New Year’s Day and New Year Celebrations (1 January)** **A comprehensive historical survey** In the Baroque world, **New Year’s Day (1 January)** was not a private celebration but a…

# **Lovro von Matačić (1899–1985)** ## **A Life in 20 Chapters** Lovro von Matačić stands as one of the **most profound, uncompromising, and morally complex conductors of the 20th century**. Revered by musicians for…

# **Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721) ** ## **Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721): A Life of Discipline, Duty, and Quiet Influence** **Johann Christoph Bach** was born in **1671**, into the vast Bach musical dynasty of Thuringia.…

# **J.S.Bach - Orphanhood and the Discipline of Johann Christoph** In **1694**, when **Johann Sebastian Bach** was only **nine years old**, he lost his mother, **Elisabeth Lämmerhirt**. Less than a year later, in **1695**,…

## **J.S.BACH: Music as a Family Language** Johann Sebastian Bach was born on **21 March 1685 in Eisenach**, into a family in which music was not learned as an external discipline, but **absorbed as…

# **Bach JCF - Die Auferweckung Lazarus - Gilbert Bezzina ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-jcf-die-146665553?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-jcf-die-146665553?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, often called the **“Bückeburg Bach”**, occupies a unique position within the Bach family. Standing stylistically between his father…

# **Johann Pachelbel** **A Life in 20 Chapters (1653–1706)** **Chapter 1 – Birth in a Fractured Germany (1653)** Johann Pachelbel was born in **September 1653** in **Nuremberg**, one of the most important cultural centers…

# **Johann Gottfried Walther - 15 Barock konzerte für Orgel - Wolfgang Rübsam** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/johann-gottfried-146568251?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/johann-gottfried-146568251?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) The collection usually known as **“15 Baroque Concertos for Organ”** by Johann Gottfried Walther does not constitute a single, unified…

# **Joseph Haydn — Survival and Self-Education in Vienna (1749–1755)** After his abrupt dismissal from the choir of **St. Stephen’s Cathedral** in **late 1749** (when his voice broke), Haydn entered what he later described…

# **Haydn: Choirboy at St. Stephen’s Cathedral (1740–1749)** In **1740**, when **Joseph Haydn** was just **eight years old**, his musical abilities brought him to **Vienna**, where he was admitted as a **boy soprano at…

# **Joseph Haydn: Born into Humble Origins** **Joseph Haydn** was born on **31 March 1732** in the small village of **Rohrau**, near the Hungarian border of Lower Austria. His beginnings were strikingly modest, especially…

# **José de Nebra - Miserere - Al Ayre Español - Eduardo López Banzo** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/jose-de-nebra-al-146248362?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/jose-de-nebra-al-146248362?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) The ***Miserere*** by **José de Nebra (1702–1768)** stands among the most powerful achievements of **Spanish Baroque sacred music**, and…

# **Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804–1857): A Life** ## **Chapter I — Noble Origins and Early Sensibility (1804–1817)** **Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka** was born on **1 June 1804** in **Novospasskoye**, Smolensk province, into a landowning Russian…

# **Mozart: Composing the *****Requiem***** under a Sense of Fatality** During the final months of his life in 1791, as Mozart worked on the *Requiem*, he developed an increasingly explicit conviction that the work…

# **Manuscripts with Minimal Revision: Mozart’s Mental Compositional Process** A striking feature of many surviving Mozart autographs—particularly from his **mature Viennese years (1781–1791)**—is the **remarkable continuity and cleanliness of the notation**. Pages often unfold…

# **Mozart and the Transcription of Allegri’s *****Miserere***** (Rome, 1770)** When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrived in **Rome in April 1770**, he was fourteen years old and already widely known across Europe as a prodigy.…

# **Mozart and Johann Christian Bach (London, 1764–1765)** When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrived in London in the spring of **1764**, he was not merely a prodigious child touring Europe with his family; he was…

# **Bach, Mozart, and the Idea of Musical Genius: A Comparative Study** The word *genius* in music often conjures two names before all others: **Johann Sebastian Bach** and **Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart**. They represent two…

# **Why Bach Is Considered One of the Most Important Composers in the History of Music ** Speaking about Bach often means speaking about a point of origin. Not because he was the first,…

# **Brahms on Mozart — Opinions, Quotes, and Primary Sources** ## **1. “That’s the only thing that means anything to me — Mozart!”** A de las declaraciones más célebres de Brahms proviene de un…

# **The Psychological Profile of Baroque Music Lovers — And a Narrative Guide to Its Music for Every Emotional State** Lovers of Baroque music form one of the most distinctive psychological communities in the…