MUSIC 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Brandenburg Concertos, Margrave, Kapellmeister
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Mainly worked near central germany, furthest part is only about 100 miles. He stayed in this 100 mile radius for his entire life (compared to handel, handel basically went everywhere, like italy and england) 1) eisenach, germany (where he was born in 1685: both of his parents had died when bach was 10, his older brother raised him, he was also a musician. 2) arnstadt (1703 - 1707: church organist, traveled to lubeck to study and learn with buxtehude, wrote the fugue in g minor here. Congregation in arnstadt criticized his music for being too dif cult, too many notes and too complex for them. 3) muhlhausen (1707 - 1708: worked as a church organist here. 4) weimar (1708 - 1717: position > court organist, member of chamber orchestra in court of duke wilhelm- ernst of weimar. Became the kapellmeister to princ leopold of anhlat- cothen. Kapellmeister > person who is in charge of music making.
