Bladmuziek
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Within the entire Bach family the chamber music for winds in pairs is marginal and limited in its existence. However, all of the sons and a grandson of Johann Sebastian have made a contribution to this genre: Carl Philipp Emanuel has written 6 Sonatas for the Hanseatic Ratsmusik (the official ensemble of the city). Johann Christian composed 6 symphonies for wind sextet, Johann Christoph Friedrich wrote a septet, and his son Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst composed two grand Parthias for eight or ten winds. Besides 5 Pieces des Parade / à / 2-Cors / 2-Clarinettes / 2-Fagotts / par / WBach have survived. But now we must ask the question: which W Bach? The grandson W. Fr Ernst or possibly the oldest son of the brilliant Thomas' choirmaster, Wilhelm Friedemann Emanuel, who has derived so little profit from his ingenuity? Born on the 22nd of November, 1719 in Weimar, he studied in Leipzig among others law, philosophy and mathematics, became organist in Dresden and musical director in Halle. He never started a promised employment as a Hessen-Darm- städtischer Kapellmeister, but tried to live as a freelance musician and composer. In Berlin he found a sponsor at times in the youngest sister of Frederic the Great, Anna Amalie von Preussen, a composer herself who greatly admired Friedemann's father, J. S. Bach. On the 11th of July, 1784 Wilhelm Friedemann Emanuel Bach passed away in Berlin, completely impoverished. Wilhelm Friedemann was an original genius, well beyond the cultural traditions and expressions of his times. Thus, different from his nephew Wilhelm Fr. Ernst, W. F. E. called his music for winds not Parthia, but Pièces de parade (concert pieces). If the Parthias are big works, complete unto themselves, then the concert pieces are artistic miniatures, reflecting the ambivalent personality of their creator in an unconventional musical language of 'Sturm und Drang.' Who may be the actual composer of these 'Pièces de parade', Friedemann or his nephew Ernst, can probably never be clearly determined. However, one cannot dispute that they are some of the most attractive Harmoniemusik to be rediscovered after a heretofore shadowy existence.
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edited by Hans-Peter Vogel
