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Heinichen, Johann David
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Biography, history, writings, list of representative works.
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Classical Net Composers Heinichen Heinichen and his music has surely suffered the same fate as many of his contemporaries in being overshadowed by the 19th century preoccupation with Johann Sebastian Bach yet his works are masterpieces according to the rules of composition still recognised...Biography dealing with compositions and theoretical writings includes noted works and treatises. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa.../learning/grove.html?record=4150
Biography from Timothy Smith's Sojourn pages noting major accomplishments and related composers, also defining terms.
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Heinichen, Johann David: Biography Leipzig to study law at the university there. In 1710 he visited Italy, where, in 1711, he produced an important book on the thoroughbass that was later revised as Der Generalbass in der Composition (1728 After six years in Italy,...Brief biographical sketch with comments on operatic, orchestral, vocal, instrumental, and choral works. From Naxos.
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Composer Heinichen was educated at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where J.S.Bach was later to teach, serving as assistant to the then cantor, Kuhnau, and proceeding thereafter to the University of Leipzig. After an initial career as a lawyer in Weissenfels, Heinichen...Biography with compositional and theoretical highlights, related composers, and additional background information from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
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HOASM: Johann David Heinichen Keyboard student and assistant of Kuhnau at the Leipzig Thomasschule; enrolled in Leipzig University in 1702, earning a law degree in 1706; began a practice in Weissenfels, where he had contact with Kapellmeister J. P. Krieger and his assistant Grnewald....