Trois Sonates pour viole de gambe BWV 1027-1029

Il est le compositeur le plus adopté depuis la fin du 18e siècle; ses compositions, densément structurées, dépassent en qualité celles de ses contemporains. Les genres musicaux qu’il aborde sont déterminés par les emplois qu’il a exercés. En tant qu’organiste à Mühlhausen et Weimar il compose en premier lieu de la musique d’orgue. Plus tard, en tant que maître de chapelle à Köthen et chef du Collegium musicum de Leipzig, des concertos et de la musique chambre. Enfin, durant les décennies de son activité de cantor à Leipzig, ce sont avant tout des compositions vocales sacrées. Ses compositions plus tardives, au contrepoint complexe, se dérobent aux courants contemporains, notamment au style préclassique, plus léger.

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Dr. Ernst-Günter Heinemann, born in 1945 in Bad Marienberg (Westerwald), completed his schooling in Gießen and read musicology, philosophy and German in Marburg and Frankfurt/Main and also for some time Protestant church music. He did his doctorate on “Franz Liszts geistliche Musik. Zum Konflikt von Kunst und Engagement”.

From 1978–2010 Heinemann worked as an editor at G. Henle Publishers (in 1978 in Duisburg, from 1979 onwards in Munich). He edited a great many Urtext editions for the publishing house, including “Das Wohltemperierte Klavier”, Volume 1 by Bach and all of Debussy’s piano works. In addition, he wrote essays on Debussy, Grieg, Liszt, Mendelssohn and questions concerning general editing, as well as giving seminars on editorial practice for musicology students in Munich.

Prof. Klaus Schilde, born in 1926, spent his childhood in Dresden. There he was greatly influenced by Walter Engel, who taught him the piano (Kodaly method), composition and violin. From 1946–1948 he studied at the music conservatory in Leipzig with Hugo Steurer. After moving to the west in 1952 he studied with Walter Gieseking and Edwin Fischer, as well as with Marguerite Long, Lucette Descaves and Nadia Boulanger in Paris.

Schilde won numerous prizes. From 1947 onwards he gave concerts as a soloist and chamber musician on almost every single continent with renowned orchestras. He taught at the music conservatories in East Berlin Detmold, West Berlin, Munich, Tokyo (Geidai) and Weimar. From 1988–1991 he was President of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, where he also taught for decades as a professor. There are numerous radio and television broadcasts with Klaus Schilde as well as CD recordings. Schilde has contributed fingerings to almost 100 Henle Urtext editions.

Prof. Klaus Schilde passed away on 10 December, 2020.

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Prof. Rainer Zipperling is one of the best-known cellists and gamba players in the early music world. He has made over 400 recordings both as an accompanist and soloist, including with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists, the Orchestra of the 18th Century under the direction of Frans Brüggens, the Ricercar Ensemble, the Mozart Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, the Leonhardt-Consort and the Bach Collegium Japan.

Aside from his artistic endeavours, he teaches the violoncello, viola da gamba and chamber music at the music conservatories in Cologne and Leuven/Belgium. In addition he also gives master-classes all over the world and edits previously unpublished compositions and his own arrangements. Together with two colleagues, he has also founded the CD Label , for which he has recorded Bach’s 6 Suites for Violoncello Solo.

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