First Berlin song school
The First Berlin Song School is a school of composers who were active in Berlin after 1740 and who were largely active at the court of Frederick the Great : In addition to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the other Bach sons , this included a. a. the composers Johann Joachim Quantz , Christoph Schaffrath , Franz Benda and the Graun brothers . The school is sometimes also called Berlin Classic .
The book On Musical Poetry (1753) by Christian Gottfried Krause is considered the beginning of this school . Her style was initially still attached to the tradition of baroque music and was characterized by simple, plain folk melodies , with the accompanying phrase being criticized by contemporaries as strict, occasionally dry and pedantic. Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart judged in this context in 1775: "Stubbornness, school fumigations, distance from nature and fearful struggle with art has brought this school down from the peak of its reputation."
literature
- Hans-Günter Ottenberg: Berlin song school. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, subject part, volume 1 (Aachen - Bogen). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1994, ISBN 3-7618-1102-0 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- Hans Uldall : The Berlin School's Piano Concerto . Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1928. At the same time, dissertation at the University of Marburg. Reprint: Kraus-Reprint, Nendeln / Liechtenstein 1976, DNB 770399088 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart: Deutsche Chronik , Volume 2. 1775. Reprint: L. Schneider, Tutzing 1975, p. 591 ( limited preview in the Google book search).