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Daniel Gottlob Türk
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Browse piano sheets by Daniel Gottlob Türk on Zen Virtual Piano. Daniel Gottlob Türk was born on 10 August 1750 in Claußnitz in the Erzgebirge of Saxony, the first son of the stocking weaver and instrumental musician Daniel Türk. He attended the renowned Dresden Kreuzschule, where he often sang motets and cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach in the Kreuzchor, learned the organ, and had the Bach pupil Homilius as his musical mentor. A boy who sang Bach motets in a choir and learned the organ seems to have grown up inside the older repertoire, long before he taught from it. From 1772 he studied for two years in Leipzig, where the Thomaskantor Hiller introduced him to Baroque music, Handel in particular. In 1779 he received the right to give lectures at the Friedrichs-Universität in Halle on the theory of music and composition, with the title of university music director. An enthusiastic follower of Handel's music, he tried to found a Handel tradition in Halle, which did not succeed because of the uncertain political situation. Halle comes across here as the place where his plans met their limits as well as their successes. In 1789 he published his Klavierschule, a keyboard method with the aim of developing independent thinking in the pianist. He judged that the number of piano pieces suited to such teaching was not large, and so he composed twelve small pieces himself to add to it. The Arioso in F major is part of the Klavierschule, whose first edition appeared in 1789. Writing pieces because the right ones were scarce shows a teacher who fitted the music to the lesson, and the Arioso comes out of that habit. In 1808, after the death of his wife, he took over the Halle Stadtsingechor, and in the same year he received an honorary doctorate and was promoted to professor of music. The posts named here, university music director, choir leader and professor, all sit within Halle.
Browse piano sheets by Daniel Gottlob Türk on Zen Virtual Piano.
Daniel Gottlob Türk was born on 10 August 1750 in Claußnitz in the Erzgebirge of Saxony, the first son of the stocking weaver and instrumental musician Daniel Türk. He attended the renowned Dresden Kreuzschule, where he often sang motets and cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach in the Kreuzchor, learned the organ, and had the Bach pupil Homilius as his musical mentor. A boy who sang Bach motets in a choir and learned the organ seems to have grown up inside the older repertoire, long before he taught from it.
From 1772 he studied for two years in Leipzig, where the Thomaskantor Hiller introduced him to Baroque music, Handel in particular. In 1779 he received the right to give lectures at the Friedrichs-Universität in Halle on the theory of music and composition, with the title of university music director. An enthusiastic follower of Handel's music, he tried to found a Handel tradition in Halle, which did not succeed because of the uncertain political situation. Halle comes across here as the place where his plans met their limits as well as their successes.
In 1789 he published his Klavierschule, a keyboard method with the aim of developing independent thinking in the pianist. He judged that the number of piano pieces suited to such teaching was not large, and so he composed twelve small pieces himself to add to it. The Arioso in F major is part of the Klavierschule, whose first edition appeared in 1789. Writing pieces because the right ones were scarce shows a teacher who fitted the music to the lesson, and the Arioso comes out of that habit.
In 1808, after the death of his wife, he took over the Halle Stadtsingechor, and in the same year he received an honorary doctorate and was promoted to professor of music. The posts named here, university music director, choir leader and professor, all sit within Halle.
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Daniel Gottlob Türk was a composer, organist and teacher born in 1750 in Claußnitz who became university music director in Halle.
It is Türk's keyboard method, first published in 1789, with the teaching aim of developing independent thinking in the pianist; he composed twelve small pieces himself to add to it.
The Arioso in F major is part of Türk's Klavierschule.
After studying in Leipzig he worked in Halle from 1774, first as cantor at the Ulrichskirche and later as university music director and professor of music.