Discussing Bach 3 (October 2021)

Published on 7 October 2021

Bach and the Thomaskantorat

Editors: Ruth Tatlow and Barbara M. Reul. Editorial assistant: Benton Froc

A live discussion, recorded on 18 August 2021, with Steven Zohn, Barbara M. Reul, Ursula Kramer, and Michael Maul, moderated by Ruth Tatlow

Video with optional subtitles (CCs)

Editorial Introduction (full text)

Authorised Transcript with Illustrations (full text)

Zohn, Steven. Telemann as Thomaskantor? An Historical Capriccio (full text)

Reul, Barbara M. ‘It was impossible for me to leave’ – Johann Friedrich Fasch and the Thomaskantorat in 1722 (full text)

Further reading and listening

Kramer, Ursula. ‘The Court of Hesse-Darmstadt’. In Music at German Courts, 1715–1760: Changing Artistic Priorities, eds. Samantha Owens, Barbara M. Reul, and Janice B. Stockigt. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011, 333–363.

Maul, Michael. Bach’s Famous Choir: The Saint Thomas School in Leipzig, 1212–1804. Trans. Richard Howe. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018.

Reul, Barbara M. ‘Sharing Resources: J. F. Fasch, J. S. Bach, and Princely Funeral Music at the Courts of Anhalt-Zerbst and Anhalt-Köthen’, Musicology Australia 41/2 (2019): 106–120.

Zohn, Steven. The Telemann Compendium. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020.

Select performances of liturgical cantatas

G. P. Telemann. https://youtu.be/YobY6A3ij7I

J. F. Fasch. https://youtu.be/4FlgdeSv1Hs

C. Graupner. https://youtu.be/lNHxepGAv3Yand https://youtu.be/GQwfSTA5evA

J. S. Bach. https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-22/

N.B. Updates on the topic in the form of new publications by the four contributors will be posted here.