Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749) - Ouverture ex D (1729)
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Composer: Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749)
Work: Ouverture ex D (1729)
Performers: Zimbler Sinfonietta; Richard Burgin (1892-1981, conductor)
Painting: Bernard Picard (1673-1733) - Assemblée galante dans un parc jouant de la musique
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Johann Bernhard Bach
(Erfurt, 23 May 1676 - Eisenach, 11 June 1749)
German composer and organist, son of Johann Egidius Bach (1645-1716). He studied with his father and about 1695 took up his first post, as organist at the Kaufmannskirche in Erfurt; in 1699 he went to Magdeburg, and in 1703 he replaced his kinsman Johann Christoph Bach as town organist and court harpsichordist in Eisenach, a post which Johann Christoph’s son Johann Nicolaus Bach had declined. Repeated rises in salary show the esteem in which he was held, particularly in the court Kapelle, which was directed by Telemann in 1708-12. On 6 August 1716 Johann Bernhard Bach married Johanna Sophia Siefer. Three children were born into the family. In 1741 the ducal orchestra was dissolved, which meant that Johann Bernhard continued to work exclusively as choirmaster and organist, until his death, apparently still receiving the ducal allowance of 100 Thalers per year. His only extant works are instrumental; some of the organ works are in copies made by his pupils in Erfurt, who included J.G. Walther (according to Walther himself). Johann Sebastian Bach evidently valued his orchestral suites, for he had five of them copied (he himself was involved in some of the copying) for his collegium musicum in Leipzig. J.S. Bach’s obituary notice of 1754 says that Johann Bernhard ‘composed many beautiful overtures in the manner of Telemann’, no doubt referring particularly to the forces he employed (dessus, haute-contre, taille and continuo) and to the programmatic movement titles (‘Les plaisirs’, ‘La toge’) in the French tradition. #ClassicalMusic