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BACH, Wilhem Friedemann (1710-1784) – Fugue in D minor

prepared by David Johnstone for Three Cellos

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The tempo indication is:  Andante mesto

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Notes on the composer:

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, (born Nov. 22, 1710, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar—died July 1, 1784, Berlin), eldest son of J.S. and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer during the period of transition between Baroque and Rococo styles.

W.F. Bach’s musical instruction was primarily from his father (who wrote for him, when he was ten, the charming Klavier-büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach of keyboard pieces). He also studied the violin. He matriculated at Leipzig University in 1729.

In 1733, already composing extensively, he was appointed organist to the Church of St. Sophia in Dresden. In 1746 he moved to the Liebfrauenkirche at Halle. At about this time, or perhaps later, after his father’s death in 1750, he seemed to begin to have personality difficulties, evidenced by excessive drinking and other lapses. After a late marriage in 1751, to Dorothea Elisabeth Georgi,

he became restless and applied for a change of post in 1753 and 1758 (but both were unsuccessful). In 1762 he won an appointment to the Darmstadt court but did not take it up. Resigning his old post in Halle in 1764, for 20 years he sought in vain for regular employment. He became touchy and unreliable, and although his talents were never doubted, he imagined that they were. However, he did not use his talent to the full. He was a very good improviser, but was considered somewhat careless when playing music by other composers, even including his father’s! In 1774 he moved to Berlin, where he lived only meagerly by giving recitals and teaching.

Of his compositions, keyboard works and cantatas form the larger part; he also composed several symphonies and chamber works and an opera. His music vacillated between the Baroque style of his father and the newer ‘galant’ and ‘Rococo’ styles. His compositions are often impassioned, and unpredictable in their use of melody, harmony, and rhythm. The late keyboard works follow new stylistic ideals. There is a noticeable tendency towards formal, technical and melodic clarity in the sonatas, while some of the virtuoso fantasias anticipate 19th-century keyboard techniques. At the same time Bach obviously had a predilection for older forms such as the toccata and fugue. Although Friedemann Bach’s work is a little bit more limited in both quantity and stylistic variety than the music of his brother Carl Philipp Emanuel, he must be ranked beside C.P.E. Bach as one of the major composers representing the period between Baroque and Classical composition. Only a few of Bach’s works were at all widely known in his lifetime.

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