Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721 – 1783) was a
musician, composer (primarily of fugues), and music
theorist. He was a student of Johann Sebastian Bach.
According to Ingeborg Allihn, he played a significant
role in the intellectual and cultural exchange between
Germany and Poland in the mid-18th century (Allihn
1995, 209). Between 1741 and 1751 Kirnberger lived and
worked in Poland for powerful magnates including
Lubomirski, Poninski, and Rzewuski before ending up at
the Benedictine Cloister in...(+)
Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721 – 1783) was a
musician, composer (primarily of fugues), and music
theorist. He was a student of Johann Sebastian Bach.
According to Ingeborg Allihn, he played a significant
role in the intellectual and cultural exchange between
Germany and Poland in the mid-18th century (Allihn
1995, 209). Between 1741 and 1751 Kirnberger lived and
worked in Poland for powerful magnates including
Lubomirski, Poninski, and Rzewuski before ending up at
the Benedictine Cloister in Lviv (then part of Poland).
He spent much time collecting Polish national dances
and compiled them in his treatise Die Charaktere der
Taenze (Allihn 1995, 211). Kirnberger became a
violinist at the court of Frederick II of Prussia in
1751. He was the music director to the Prussian
Princess Anna Amalia from 1758 until his death.
Kirnberger greatly admired Johann Sebastian Bach,
deeming him "the greatest of all composers." Kirnberger
published Bach's Clavierübungen mit der bachischen
Applicatur in the 1760s, and seeking to secure the
publication of all of Bach's chorale settings, which
finally appeared after Kirnberger's death; see
Kirnberger chorale preludes (BWV 690–713). Many of
Bach's manuscripts have been preserved in Kirnberger's
library (the "Kirnberger collection").
Kirnberger is known today primarily for his theoretical
work Die Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik (The Art
of Strict Composition in Music, 1774, 1779). The
well-tempered tuning systems known as "Kirnberger II"
and "Kirnberger III" are associated with his name (see
Kirnberger temperament), as is a rational version of
equal temperament (see schisma). One of his most
familiar compositions is Fuga in C-dur für Orgel
("Fanfare" Fugue), which was formerly attributed to
Johann Sebastian Bach and then to his son Carl Philipp
Emanuel Bach.
Source: Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Kirnberger).
Although originally composed for Oboe & Continuo, I
created this Interpretation of the Allegro from the
Sonata in Bb Major for Woodwind Quartet (Flute, Oboe,
English Horn & Bassoon).
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