Christoph Nichelmann (1717-1762) - Ouverture a 4 (1737)

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Composer: Christoph Nichelmann (1717-1762)
Work: Ouverture B dur | per | due Violini | due Oboi | Viola | Basso continuo (1737)
Performers: Orkiestra Kοre

Ouverture a 4 (1737)
1. Ouverture 0:00
2. Bourrée 6:10
3. Menuet I & II 9:21
4. Gigue 12:40

Painting: Bernardo Bellotto (1722-1780) - Krakowskie Przedmiescie od strony kosciola sw. Krzyza
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Map: Friedrich Gottlieb Berger (1712-1775) - Plan de la Ville de Berlin levé et dessiné par Ordre et privilege privatif du Roy
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Christoph Nichelmann
(Treuenbrietzen, 13 August 1717 - Berlin, 1762)

German composer. His earliest musical education came when he enrolled in the Thomasschule in Leipzig in 1730, studying under Johann Sebastian Bach and Bach’s son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. In 1733 he moved to Hamburg to seek work as an opera composer, but in 1739 he went to Berlin, where he became part of the Berlin School, studying under Johann Joachim Quantz and Carl Heinrich Graun. He obtained the position as harpsichordist at the Prussian court, and in 1755 he published his treatise 'Die Melodie, nach ihrem Wesen'. A controversy with this work and its successor caused him to request release from the court, and he served the rest of his life as an independent teacher and composer. Among his works were 3 sinfonias, an Ouverture, a Concerto for Violin and Strings, 16 concertos for harpsichord and strings (1740-59), various keyboard pieces, 'Il sogno di Scipione' (serenata, 1745), a Requiem, and 22 Lieder. Although known for his theoretical treatise, Nichelmann was an innovative composer of keyboard works whose style is firmly implanted in 'Empfindsamkeit'.