AMEB Grade 1 (Australian Music Examinations Board)
Johann Kuhnau (160-1722) was a German polymath: known
primarily as composer today, he was also active as
novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, being
able late in life to combine these activities with the
duties of his official post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig,
which he occupied for 21 years. One year after his
death, Kuhnau was succeeded as Thomaskantor by Johann
Sebastian Bach, but it was only after 3 much more
preferred can...(+)
AMEB Grade 1 (Australian Music Examinations Board)
Johann Kuhnau (160-1722) was a German polymath: known
primarily as composer today, he was also active as
novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, being
able late in life to combine these activities with the
duties of his official post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig,
which he occupied for 21 years. One year after his
death, Kuhnau was succeeded as Thomaskantor by Johann
Sebastian Bach, but it was only after 3 much more
preferred candidates (Telemann, Graupner and Fasch
(both pupils of Kuhnau)) refused. Like Kuhnau before
him Bach also used the title Clavier-Übung (keyboard
practice, 1-4) for his keyboard publications.
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