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Duke Johann Ernst (Composer) |
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Born: December 15, 1696 - Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
Died: August 1, 1715 - Frankfurt, Germany |
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Duke Johann Ernst was a German composer who studied with J.S. Bach and of whose concertos J.S. Bach made transcriptions.
During his activity in Weimar, J.S. Bach came into close contact with Prince Johann Ernst, a composition pupil of Johann Gottfried Walther and extremely gifted musically, who died young. The organ concertos in C and G major (BWV 595 and BWV 592) were arrangements of works by the young prince. When his elder brother, Duke Ernst August (1688-1748), who was co-regent from 1709, married Princess Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen, in 1716, J.S. Bach provided the music for the ceremony. And it was on this occasion that the bride's brother, Prince Leopold (later his employer in Köthen), came to know and appreciate him. |
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Source: Wikipedia Website; Christoph Wolff: Bach - Essays on His Life and Music (Harvard University Press, 1991)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (November 2008) |
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Works arranged by J.S. Bach |
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Concerto for organ No. 1 in G major (after Duke J. Ernst), BWV 592
Concerto for solo keyboard G major (after Duke J. Ernst), BWV 592a
Concerto for organ No. 4 in C major (after Duke J. Ernst), BWV 595
Concerto for solo keyboard No. 11 in B flat major (after Duke J. Ernst, Op. 1/1), BWV 982
Concerto for solo keyboard No. 13 in C major (after Duke J. Ernst), BWV 984
Concerto for solo keyboard No. 16 in D minor (after Duke J. Ernst, Op. 1/4), BWV 987 |
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Links to other Sites |
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Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (Wikipedia) |
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