Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . heir expressed regret, he followed a call to the ducal court ofWeimar. Here were written most of his organ music and some of hismost beautiful cantatas, also the affecting Actus Tragicus; the last-named work was composed for a funeral ceremony in 1711. All the organcompositions coming from this period are incomparably grand. Of thesewe consider the Toccatas and Fugue in D minor and the Passacaglia in JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 39 C minor as the most noteworthy. Among the cantatas I much prefer Gotteszeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, which has become the bes
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . heir expressed regret, he followed a call to the ducal court ofWeimar. Here were written most of his organ music and some of hismost beautiful cantatas, also the affecting Actus Tragicus; the last-named work was composed for a funeral ceremony in 1711. All the organcompositions coming from this period are incomparably grand. Of thesewe consider the Toccatas and Fugue in D minor and the Passacaglia in JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 39 C minor as the most noteworthy. Among the cantatas I much prefer Gotteszeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, which has become the best-known,and Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, written for the two-hundred-yearjubilee. But the cantata Ich hatte viel Bekiimmerniss stands in thesame rank as the two above named. Bachs situation in Weimar was agreeable to him in every the beginning he was paid the considerable salary of 156 gulden 12groschen, which on St. Johns day in 1711 was raised to 210 gulden 12groschen; at Easter, 1713, to 225 gulden; and in 1714 was made still. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY SOPHUS WILLIAMS, BERLIN. PANORAMA OF THE WARTBURG, THUR1NGEN, EISENACH. higher. We can see from this how much he was prized and how wellhis work was appreciated. Installed at first with the title of Kammermusikus (chamber-musician),he was to furnish the organ service in the Schlosskirche. In the musicchapel of the duke he filled the places of violin-player and cembalist(harpsichord-player), in the latter capacity in the rehearsals and in theperformances of secular music only, as he acted as organist for churchmusic. Later he received the title of Concertmeister. It is appropriateto say here a few words about the duties of a cembalist. All compositionsof that time, whether written for chorus of voices a cappella, or forinstruments, or for voices with instrumental accompaniment, were laiddown with a bass voice as foundation, which, usually provided wit]* a
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