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Browse piano sheets by Johann Ernst Bach on Zen Virtual Piano. Johann Ernst Bach was born in Eisenach in 1722 and died there on 1 September 1777; his father was Johann Bernhard Bach, a composer and organist. He attended the Eisenach Latin school and the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where he studied law and found “many a year of loving reception” with his godfather Johann Sebastian Bach. A law student who lodged in the home of a musical godfather can be read as a legal career growing beside a musical education. In 1742 he went to Eisenach as organist, at first as deputy to his father and, after his father’s death, as his successor. In 1756 he became Kapellmeister of the princely court orchestra in Weimar. After studying law at the University of Leipzig, he returned to Eisenach and practised as an advocate. A man who practised as an advocate and also served as organist and Kapellmeister can be read as someone whose career crossed law and music. As a composer he came forward with cantatas, organ and piano works, and a setting of Gellert’s rhymed fables (1749). He published Sammlung auserlesener Fabeln mit Melodeyen, edited by H. Kretzschmar in the Denkmäler Deutscher Tonkunst, vol. 42 (1910), and other works. Only a small portion of his works has been published; his Passion oratorio is in the Denkmäler Deutscher Tonkunst, vol. 48 (1914), and two fantasies and fugues for organ are found in D. Hellmann’s edition Orgelwerke der Familie Bach (Leipzig, 1967). A collection of Gellert’s fables set to melodies can be read as a composer turning verse into song.
Browse piano sheets by Johann Ernst Bach on Zen Virtual Piano.
Johann Ernst Bach was born in Eisenach in 1722 and died there on 1 September 1777; his father was Johann Bernhard Bach, a composer and organist. He attended the Eisenach Latin school and the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where he studied law and found “many a year of loving reception” with his godfather Johann Sebastian Bach. A law student who lodged in the home of a musical godfather can be read as a legal career growing beside a musical education.
In 1742 he went to Eisenach as organist, at first as deputy to his father and, after his father’s death, as his successor. In 1756 he became Kapellmeister of the princely court orchestra in Weimar. After studying law at the University of Leipzig, he returned to Eisenach and practised as an advocate. A man who practised as an advocate and also served as organist and Kapellmeister can be read as someone whose career crossed law and music.
As a composer he came forward with cantatas, organ and piano works, and a setting of Gellert’s rhymed fables (1749). He published Sammlung auserlesener Fabeln mit Melodeyen, edited by H. Kretzschmar in the Denkmäler Deutscher Tonkunst, vol. 42 (1910), and other works. Only a small portion of his works has been published; his Passion oratorio is in the Denkmäler Deutscher Tonkunst, vol. 48 (1914), and two fantasies and fugues for organ are found in D. Hellmann’s edition Orgelwerke der Familie Bach (Leipzig, 1967). A collection of Gellert’s fables set to melodies can be read as a composer turning verse into song.
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Johann Sebastian Bach, with whom he found “many a year of loving reception” while studying law in Leipzig.
Organist in Eisenach from 1742, first as deputy to his father and then as his successor, and Kapellmeister of the princely court orchestra in Weimar from 1756.
Cantatas, organ and piano works, a setting of Gellert’s rhymed fables (1749) and a Passion oratorio.