Bøger af Paul Corneilson

The Passion according to St. John (H 785) is the first setting of this Gospel, and incorporates J.S. Bach's chorus, "Ruht wohl." This edition includes a complete English translation of the German text.

C.P.E. Bach's second St. John Passion was first performed in Hamburg during Lent 1776.

This volume contains two choruses by C.P.E. Bach. Spiega, Ammonia fortunata (Wq 216) was written in 1770 for the visit of Crown Prince Gustaf III to Hamburg. The double-choir Heilig (Wq 217) was originally written in 1776 and published in 1779.

C.P.E. Bach's fourth St. John Passion was first performed during Lent 1784 in Hamburg.

Ludwig Fischer (1745-1825) was one of the most famous basses of his day, and he created numerous roles, including Osmin in Mozart's "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" (1782). Around 1792 he wrote an autobiography with anecdotes about his singing teacher Anton Raaff, his travels through Europe, and some of the operas he performed in. This book includes a facsimile of his autobiography, along with a transcription, the first complete English translation, an introduction and commentary. Also included are seven of the arias he sang in piano-vocal score by Anton Schweitzer, Ignaz Holzbauer, Antonio Salieri, Mozart, Antonio Sacchini, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, and Fischer himself. This provides a comprehensive portrait of one of the most famous basses of the eighteenth-century.

This volume contains C.P.E. Bach's miscellaneous choruses, including the Heilig (Wq 218) and choruses he used in funeral music in Hamburg in the 1770s and 1780s.

It is hard to imagine two composers more different in talent and temperament than the French, mostly self-taught Hector Berlioz and German, highly cultivated Felix Mendelssohn. The two were an "odd couple": Berlioz grew up in provincial France, the son of a country doctor; he moved to Paris to study medicine but gravitated toward music in his early twenties. His views and music represent the more progressive Romantic ideals of the nineteenth-century. Mendelssohn, on the other hand, was probably the most talented musician after Mozart. He enjoyed a comfortable life and a fine education in Berlin, where he absorbed the classical tradition in music, religion, and philosophy. As a pathway into their life and music, a new original play, Hector & Felix, tells of the two encounters between the composers, who first met in Rome in 1831 and twelve years later in Leipzig in 1843. Using letters and historical documents of their life, opinions, and music, the play imagines their discussion during two different periods of their career. Act 1 is set in Rome, where Berlioz (aged 27) was in residence at the French Academy after winning the Prix de Rome and where Mendelssohn (aged 22) happened to be visiting at the end of a Grand Tour through Europe. Act 2 is set in Leipzig, where Mendelssohn had established himself as conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and at a time when Berlioz is traveling through Germany organizing concerts to pay his expenses. Each act is divided into scenes in places or venues (e.g., Villa Medici, Café Greco, Mendelssohn's living room) where the two men converse about music, art, literature, and other topics.

The "Musik am Dankfeste," H 823 was written for the dedication of the new church tower at St. Michaelis in Hamburg on Reformation Sunday 1786. The festive cantata incorporates the composer's double-choir Heilig, Wq 217.

C.P.E. Bach's third St. John Passion was first performed during Lent 1780 in Hamburg.

This volume of essays brings together the best of recent scholarship on Johann Christian Bach, the youngest son of J.S. Bach and a friend and mentor of Mozart. J.C. Bach had a cosmopolitan career, beginning in Berlin as a pupil of his half-brother, C.P.E. Bach, then a sojourn to Italy where he studied with Padre Martini in Bologna; after making his successful debut with operas for Turin and Naples he moved to London, where he became a leading composer and impresario. The articles selected for this volume represent the principal themes of scholarly research and writing over the past fifty years. The introduction provides a survey of J.C. BachΓÇÖs career and an overview of recent literature. The collection includes English translations of two articles first published in German in the Bach-Jahrbuch, as well as one article published as recently as 2015. An appendix lists the complete contents of The Collected Works of Johann Christian Bach, using the Warburton catalogue numbers.