Biography of Bach composers

Johann Sebastian Bach is the author of a beautiful beautiful music, everyone knows it. But little is known about the personality of the musician. The book of Michael Maul sheds a new light on Bach's biography. He created the great "passions" and the famous "Christmas oratorio". Being a cantor of the choir of St. Thomas in Leipzig as well as Tomanerhor, he wrote the cantata, who became the masterpieces of his work.

The collection of preludes and fugs "well -tempered clavier", as well as a series of fug and cantat in the collection "Art of Fugi", have a strong influence on the world of music, not weakening to this day. Many issues are still open all this for a long time. Nevertheless, the new biography written by the Bach festival in Leipzig Bachfest Leipzig Michael Maul Michael Maul sheds a new light on the great composer of the age of the age.

In the book, the reader gets acquainted with Bach as a person who again and again caused displeasure among his customers, and in later years he was increasingly departing from writing church music. However, the documents that Michael Maul studied allow another interpretation. For more than twenty years, Michael Maul has been engaged in composer Johann Sebastian Bach and, nevertheless, as the musicologist himself says, this work is far from over, many issues remain open.

Again and again there are new notes of the great musician or fragments of his manuscripts. Michael Maul collected many of the individual elements of this mosaic in a chronological order in his bilingual German-English illustrated biography. The cover of the book of Michael Maul “Bach. Biography” Photo: Lehmstedt Verlag, while in Bach’s biography, its author not only demonstrates deep knowledge about the work of a brilliant composer, but also shows individuals of Bach's personality.

It turns out that Johann Sebastian Bach at one time skipped school, and sometimes participated in fights, as, for example, in a brawl with a certain “amateur fragotist”. Michael Maul, on the pages of his book, discusses the “false tracks in Bach’s research”, namely those that sometimes bring the theory of numerical symbols from the composer to the point of absurdity, and talks about the techniques that Bach used to sow the discord among their potential employers and thus get a larger fee.

According to the cantata a week, love for Bach Michael Maul inherited from his father. Unlike Ludwig Van Beethoven Ludwig Van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach left practically no personal entries or statements. Only in one preserved letter to his friend George Erdman Georg Erdmann Bach wrote about his family. It, in particular, tells the story that, as a child, Johann Sebastian Bach secretly pulled out his brother's notes from the cabinet in the living room to rewrite the works of "famous masters." Bach’s life is a text with passes, writes Michael Maul in a preface to his illustrated chronicle.

Nevertheless, even notes on yellowed paper upon closer examination can become a source of amazing knowledge of how the great composer worked. Records on the fields of one of the original musical sheets show that Bach, working on one work, has already nurtured the idea of ​​the next. Notes of one of the canons of Bach photo: Lehmstedt Verlag "He spends most of his time looking for the topic, this is a creative part of the work,” explains Michael Maul.

The rest is, according to the musicologist, the craft is already: "Then the brain obviously switches to work in the autopilot mode, when what already exists in the head is applied with a pen on paper." It should be noted that, starting from a year, at the beginning of his activity as a cantor of the choir of St. Thomas in Leipzig, Bach created every week a new cantat for chord payment and, obviously, worked under huge pressure.

When in Leipzig it was decided to more actively attract children from the poorest layers to participate in the Holy Thomas school, Bach protested. The fact is that the new rules suggested that when entering school, musical talent would no longer play as important as before. As a result, a strong dispute broke out between the city council, that is, the employer of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the composer himself.

Members of the city council spoke of Bach as a obstinate and incorrigible cantor, "with a bad mood for work." So the minutes of the meetings of the city council of Leipzig give the opportunity to get acquainted with the personality of the great musician. It was difficult for Bach to meet his opponents, he did not know how to act diplomatically. In this sense, Michael Maul considers Bach a tragic figure, despite his genius.

The portrait of the musician in his youth is how little we know about the spiritual state of Johann Sebastian Bach are so few and data on how the great composer looked. This portrait is printed on the cover of the composer's biography. Michael Maul describes in the book another picture, which can be a portrait of a musician in his youth.Data on the existence of a portrait made by an unknown artist of the 18th century appeared in the year.

Now he belongs to the Bach archive. The manually performed record on the back of the picture suggests that a bang is depicted on the canvas. At least with his eyes, a young man on this portrait looks like a bach in a picture of Hausman. Both portraits depict a great composer? Michael Maul hopes to introduce readers with Bach closer to his biography as a composer and as a person who, as the author himself says, "combines a musician-god and a person with his" sharp angles "with whom his environment was far from difficult." At the end of the book, Michael Maul tells the following joke: “One musician after death falls into heaven and waits for no reason to get the answer to the question of what composer God loves more: Mozart or Bach.

Going closer to the throne of the Lord, the musician hears Mozart's melody and tells the Creator:“ Many people think that you are listening to Mozart, ”for God, for God. Having graciously looking at the musician, he answers him: "I am a bang."