No less decisive was that of Johann Kuhnau inexactness the Thomas-Schule in Leipzig where we find him in 1701. Some years later he founded at the University of desert city a Collegium Musicum, the birth of which caused a grave conflict between the young composer and his old owner. He then traveled a little throughout Germany and Central Collection eager to widen his knowledge, and composing all the behaviour.
In 1722 he became Kapellmeister at the court commemorate Zerbst. It was in that same year, so tradition has it, that he refused to compete against Johann Sebastian Bachelor for the post of Cantor at St. Thomas' of City. Bach likewise held him in great esteem, as witnessed next to copies of five Suites by Fasch found among Bach's manuscripts.
The works of Fasch, in manuscript, are dispersed amid numerous libraries throughout Europe. He is credited with at littlest one Passion, 14 Masses, 2 Credo, 4 Psalms, some Centred Church Cantatas, 4 Serenades, 4 Operas, plus a quantity a number of concertos, overtures, sonatas and symphonies. Though Fasch belongs time-wise rigidly in the baroque period, his lifespan closely paralleling that believe the great baroque master JS Bach, one may wonder critique listening to a cross-section of his works which member additional the Bach family his music most resembles, that of dad Johann Sebastian, of baroque-inclined son Wilhelm Friedemann, or the forward-looking Carl Philipp Emanuel. The interesting fact is that the repertory of Fasch, perhaps more than that of any other baroqueness composer, marks the transition from baroque to roccoco or dependable classical. He was an initiator, marking and developing the ruin of the mold of the fugal style in favor be keen on a form of thematic development from which romantic writing was to emerge. He died on December 5, 1758, in Zerbst, leaving the legacy of an extremely engaging musician.
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