Each week , we’re presenting a tiny taste of the BFX—an amuse-bouche for the upcoming Festival feast! * * * * * Since last time we looked at his cantatas, in this BFX Bite we’ll shift our focus to Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas and partitas for violin, of which he composed six sets (BWV 1001-1006). […]
Each week , we’re presenting a tiny taste of the BFX—an amuse-bouche for the upcoming Festival feast! * * * * * J.S. Bach doesn’t need much introduction, but in case you wanted to send a card, March 21 was his 337th birthday. Among his prodigious output are approximately 200 extant cantatas (although it’s estimated […]
CPE Bach, portrait by Franz Conrad Löhr Each week, we’re presenting a tiny taste of BFX 2022 in our “BFX bites” section—an amuse-bouche for the upcoming Festival feast! * * * * * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, born in 1714, was the fifth child of Johann Sebastian and his first wife Maria Barbara. While he […]
