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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , 1714-88, German composer; second son of J. S. Bach, his only teacher. While harpsichordist at the court of Frederick the Great, where his chief duty for 28 years (1738-67) was to accompany the monarch's performances on the flute, he wrote an important work on technique, ... Read more
Benjamin Franklin Bache Benjamin Franklin Bache
Benjamin Franklin Bache , 1769-98, American journalist, b. Philadelphia; son of Richard Bache and grandson of Benjamin Franklin . In 1790 he founded the Philadelphia General Advertiser (later the Aurora ). As the champion of the Jeffersonians, Bache's paper denounced the Federalists bitterly,... Read more
Bach Bach
Bach , German family of distinguished musicians who flourished from the 16th through the 18th cent., its most renowned member being Johann Sebastian Bach (see separate article). Johannes or Hans Bach, c.1550-1626, was a Thuringian carpetweaver and a musical performer at festivals. His sons and... Read more
absolute music absolute music
absolute music term used for music dependent on its structure alone for comprehension. It is the antithesis of program music . It is not associated with extramusical ideas or with a pictorial or narrative scheme of emotions, nor does it attempt to reproduce sounds in nature. Hence it is always... Read more
Leopold Stokowski Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski , 1882-1977, American conductor, b. London. Stokowski studied in England and at the Paris Conservatory. He was organist and choirmaster at St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City (1905-8), and was conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony (1909-12). As conductor of the Philadelphia... Read more
Dinu Lipatti Dinu Lipatti
Dinu Lipatti Romanian pianist and composer Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950) had a brief but exceptional career. Remembered mostly for his technical and interpretative skills, Lipatti was considered an exceptional performer of the works of Chopin, Mozart, and Bach among others. An inveterate perfectionist,... Read more
jig jig
jig dance of English origin that is performed also in Ireland and Scotland. It is usually a lively dance, performed by one or more persons, with quick and irregular steps. When the jig was introduced to the United States, it was often danced in minstrel shows. In instrumental music the gigue, the... Read more
Glenn Gould Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould 1932-82, Canadian pianist and composer. A prodigy, he began study at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto at 12. He was piano soloist with the Toronto Symphony at 14, and by the time he was 19 he was making concert tours in Canada, soon becoming known for idiosyncratic performance... Read more
Max Reger Max Reger
Max Reger , 1873-1916, German composer; he studied with Hugo Riemann in Wiesbaden. Through his sensitive interpretations of Mozart and Bach he won acclaim as a pianist. In 1901 he settled in Munich, where he taught composition and organ, and from 1907 until his death he taught at the Leipzig... Read more
figured bass figured bass
figured bass in music, a system of shorthand notation in which figures are written below the notes of the bass part to indicate the chords to be played. Called also thorough bass and basso continuo, it arose in the early 17th cent. in Italy as a means of notating an accompaniment. It soon became so... Read more

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