Georg Böhm

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Georg Böhm (September 2nd 1661, Hohenkirchen - June 18th 1733, Lunebourg) is a organist and Clavecin German ist .

His/her father, organist with Hohenkirchen, are its first professor. He studies at the university of Iéna then share in 1693 with Hamburg where he settles during a few years. This city is then an important musical center, not of radiation of the music Italy nne in Germany of North by its opera and where exerts celebrates it organist Jan Adam Reinken with whom it is in contact. It obtains later the post of organist of the Midsummer's Day church to Lunebourg, city where the music French is appraisal and practiced. It remains the remaining one of its life there.

Böhm, with crossed musical traditions of Germany of the North and South, penetrated of the influences Italian and French, is one of the actors of the development of a specifically German musical tradition. He exerts an important influence on Jean-Sebastien Bach which is towards 1700 chorus-singer with the Saint-Michel church of Lunebourg and which will always preserve its respect, its regard and its friendship to him.

The work which it leaves includes in particular:

about thirty religious vocal works (including 9 cantatas and 2 motets);
for the organ about fifteen chorals and some free pipe fittings in the tradition of Germany of North with Italian influences;
for the harpsichord eleven continuation S which adopts with rigor the traditional French form.

See too

German Schools of organ

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