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5.26: Vivaldi: “The Four Seasons;” Stravinsky: “Dumbarton Oaks” and John Adams: “Son of Chamber Symphony.” Albany Symphony Orchestra with violinist Aisslinn Nosky from Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.Coming Up on 'No Ticket Required' (Fridays at 1 p.m.)
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Welcome to 'Composer’s Classroom,' an on-air/online/in-classroom partnership between WMHT-FM and the Mohonasen Central School District! You can hear Bill Winans on this month's composer just after the 7 a.m. news on Friday mornings on WMHT-FM.
WMHT's 'Composer of the Month' for May is Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity.
At the age of 14, Bach was awarded a choral scholarship to study at the prestigious St. Michael's School in Lüneburg. In his two years there, he was exposed to a wider facet of European culture. In addition to singing in the choir he played the School's three-manual organ and harpsichords.
After graduating from St. Michael’s, he was appointed court musician in Weimar where his reputation as a keyboardist spread so much that he was widely invited to give organ recitals. Three years later, he took a better paying position in Muhlhausen where he met and married his second cousin, Maria Barbara who bore him seven children, four of whom survived to adulthood, including Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, both of whom went on to their own fame.
Bach relocated to nearby Weimar a few years later in 1708 for a position as organist and concertmaster in the Weimar court. This began a sustained period of composing keyboard and orchestral works including the beginnings of what would become The Well-Tempered Clavier as well as his first Christmas Cantata.
In 1723, Bach was appointed Director of Music at the Church of the University of Leipzig, a post which he held for the next twenty-seven years until his death. In addition to his regular church work, he performed other composers' works as well as his own. Many of his works during the Leipzig period were written for and performed by the Collegium Musicum; among these were many of his violin and harpsichord concertos. He also began work on his Mass in B minor.
The final work Bach completed was a chorale prelude for organ, which he dictated to his son-in-law.
For more on Bach, click on the links below. Check back May 31 for more about our Composer of the month.
• Learn more about Bach on wikipedia.org
• Learn more about Bach on BaroqueMusic.org
*Teachers: For related composer and classical music resources visit PBS Learning Media.*
