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De mooiste Klassieke Muziek van de TV
Carl Orff, Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel

Various Artists

De mooiste Klassieke Muziek van de TV

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Format: CD
Label: WLS
UPC: 3351470000562
Catnr: WLS 56
Release date: 15 March 1998
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WLS
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3351470000562
Catalogue number
WLS 56
Release date
15 March 1998
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Georg Friedrich Händel

Georg Frideric Handel was a composer from the Baroque period. Handel wrote primarily music-dramatic works: 42 operas, 29 oratorios, more than 120 cantatas, trios and duets, which comes to a total amount of almost 2000 arias! Furthermore, he composed English, Italian and Latin sacred music, serenades and odes. Among his instrumental music are several organ concertos, concerti grossi, overtures, oboe sonatas and violinsonates, along with many solo works for harpsichord and organ.  Together with Johann Sebastian Bach, who was born in the same year (1685), Handel is viewed as one of the greatest composers of his time. He was extremely prolific and wrote in total more than 610 works, many of which are still performed today.  Compared to his contemporaries Bach, Telemann...
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Georg Frideric Handel was a composer from the Baroque period. Handel wrote primarily music-dramatic works: 42 operas, 29 oratorios, more than 120 cantatas, trios and duets, which comes to a total amount of almost 2000 arias! Furthermore, he composed English, Italian and Latin sacred music, serenades and odes. Among his instrumental music are several organ concertos, concerti grossi, overtures, oboe sonatas and violinsonates, along with many solo works for harpsichord and organ.

Together with Johann Sebastian Bach, who was born in the same year (1685), Handel is viewed as one of the greatest composers of his time. He was extremely prolific and wrote in total more than 610 works, many of which are still performed today.

Compared to his contemporaries Bach, Telemann and Scarlatti, Handel was by far the most cosmopolitan. When Handel was a child, his father, who was a surgeon at the court of Saxe-Weissenfels, imagined a juridical career for him. But his musical talents did not go unnoticed at the court, which forced the father to let him study music. In Hamburg, Handel befriended Mattheson. Together they visited Buxtehude, the greatest organ player of his time, in 1703 (two years before Bach did). At that time, Handel was already an excellent musician, but it wasn't until his stay in Italy - the land of opera - that his talents and skills truly started to flourish. Back in Germany, he received a position at the court of Hannover, where the noblemen had a connection to the British throne. Thanks to these connections, Handel decided to move to London, after which a puzzling history of intrigues and political games started. For example, it is unclear what the exact political message of his famous Water Music is, which was composed for a boat ride on the river Thames by King George. Initially, Handel focused on Italian opera during his stay in London, but from the 1730s onwards he started composing English spoken oratorios, with the celebrated Messiah at its peak.


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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and hundreds of cantatas. His music is revered for its technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual depth.  Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.  
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Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and hundreds of cantatas. His music is revered for its technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual depth.

Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.


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Carl Orff

At the age of 5, Carl Orff was already studying piano, percussion, cello and organ. He also already wrote his first compositions at a very early age. He studied at the conservatory of Munich after which he mostly composed for piano and voice. Besides that, he also had a career as a music educator: in 1924 he founded the Güntherschule together with Dorothee Günther, for which he created a method called the Orff-Schulwerk.  He wrote his Kinderreigen for the olympic games of 1936, his Gruß der Jugend for the olympic games of 1972 and he published 5 collections of music for children. His aim was that children would get to know theirselves through his music.  Orff is however mostly known from his Carmina Burana from...
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At the age of 5, Carl Orff was already studying piano, percussion, cello and organ. He also already wrote his first compositions at a very early age. He studied at the conservatory of Munich after which he mostly composed for piano and voice. Besides that, he also had a career as a music educator: in 1924 he founded the Güntherschule together with Dorothee Günther, for which he created a method called the Orff-Schulwerk. He wrote his Kinderreigen for the olympic games of 1936, his Gruß der Jugend for the olympic games of 1972 and he published 5 collections of music for children. His aim was that children would get to know theirselves through his music. Orff is however mostly known from his Carmina Burana from 1937. The work is the first part of a trilogy, of which the other two parts are called Catulli Carmina en Trionfo di Afrodite. The full name of the trilogy is Trionfi (triumph).


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