Johann Friedrich Fasch

Johann Friedrich Fasch was a Compositeur, Violoniste and German Organiste , born with Buttelstädt close to Weimar the April 15th 1688 and deceased with Zerbst the December 5th 1758

Biography

Johann Friedrich Fasch approached the music like Choriste before being enlisted by Johann Kuhnau in famous Thomasschule of Leipzig; he then studied at the University of Leipzig of 1708 with 1711. Without to have received training of type-setter, it started to compose and its reputation was made so quickly that its sovereign ordered to him operas in 1711 and 1712. It is about these years that Fasch undertook to study the composition with Darmstadt with Johann Christoph Graupner and Gottfried Grünewald. It occupied some stations in addition, in particular of violonist with Bayreuth, organist with Greiz, and of choirmaster at the court of the count Morzin in Lukavec. In 1722, it accepted the post of choirmaster in Zerbst where it remained until the end of his days.

Work

Johann Friedrich Fasch composed in almost all the musical genres in vogue at its time. He was a type-setter respected of all, including Jean-Sebastien Bach which transcribed several openings of Fasch.

The most important element is without any doubt the transition which the work of Fasch carries out between the styles traditional baroque and : according to Gottfried Küntzel, Fasch the vocabulary of a new musical language developed on a traditional formal screen; in some of its late works, it anticipated in a completely remarkable way the idioms - but not the formal structures - used then by Gluck, Haydn and Mozart.

  • crowned vocal Music

    • 12 cycles of cantatas, alas all lost (there remains to us only one score of isolated cantatas)
    • 1 passion
    • 16 masses or movements of masses
    • 5 psalms
    • 2 serenades
    • 9 other lost parts

  • vocal Musique profanes dated May 20th, 1757

    • 4 operas, all lost
    • 1 serenade made up at the time of the birthday of “its Imperial Highness the Large Princess”.

  • Instrumental music

    • 96 openings
    • 68 concertos whose 33 concerti enlarged
    • 19 symphonies for cords and low continues
    • 18 sonatas in trio

External bond

  • Site devoted to Johann Friedrich Fasch

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