User:Jashiin/contribs
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Articles I created and/or made significant contributions to, in alphabetical order (some minor things are not included):
- Abraham van den Kerckhoven - one of the last representatives of the 17th century Dutch keyboard school. Many small versets are extant, as well as some incredible polyphonic fantasias (translated from nl:Abraham van den Kerckhoven, poor and partial, currently needs checking) (a work in progress)
- Albert de Rippe - 16th century Italian lutenist and composer who worked in France; composed some of the most complex lute pieces of the period.
- Amour (Stockhausen) - a small cycle of clarinet pieces by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Some are very melodic, some are character pieces; probably a good introduction to Stockhausen for those who are used to "melodic" music
- André Raison - one of the most interesting composers of the French organ school. He had an interesting way with melodic lines at times; JS Bach borrowed a couple of themes from him for his Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
- Anton Reicha - a contemporary and friend of Beethoven. Reicha wrote some of the most beautiful and complex fugues I know; he was also a fantastic musician and theorist. The man experimented with extended sonata forms and various rarely used ensemble techniques; but most incredibly, he advocated polyrhythm, polytonality (it was 1803!) and microtonal music (1824 and earlier). Unfortunately, his contemporaries - including Beethoven and Schumann - thought that Reicha's experiments were too much.
- Antonio Bertali - Italian composer, succeeded Giovanni Valentini, which is what lead me to create the article (translated from fr:Antonio Bertali)
- Ariadne musica - JCF Fischer's cycle of preludes and fugues in (almost!) all keys. This collection, as well as Fischer's work in general, influenced Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.
- Bauyn manuscript - this is one of the most important sources of French harpsichord music of the 17th century; particularly notable for pieces by Louis Couperin. (translated from fr:Manuscrit Bauyn)
- Bernardo Storace - a very obscure and enigmatic Italian composer of mid-17th century. Nothing is known about his life, except what can be derived from a little notice on the title page of the only surviving collection of his music. He specialized on beautiful variation sets, some of which can be linked to Buxtehude's later Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161 in terms of structure, wrote "toccata and canzon" pairs (foreshadowing the "prelude and fugue" ones), and also composed a huge minimalist piece for organ, Pastorale, which is based on folk tunes and sounds as if it was composed by someone like Philip Glass.
- Boris Vian - a French writer I really like; his style relies heavily on wordplay and invented words, and his works are rarely translated into English.
- Christophe Moyreau - a somewhat recently discovered French composer who lived in Orléans, and partly because of that remained virtually unknown. Some eccentric harpsichord suites survive (up to 26 movements), and an interesting character piece for organ is frequently performed (as far as "frequent" goes for early music, of course).
- Dieterich Buxtehude - probably the most important North German composer, instrumental in the development of advanced organ technique, and a huge influence on JS Bach. His treatment of stylus phantasticus is only equalled by that of his pupil, Nikolaus Bruhns, who unfortunately died young.
- Enharmonic keyboard - a type of musical keyboard that has more than 12 notes per octave
- Fiori musicali - Frescobaldi's magnum opus of liturgical music. (a work in progress)
- Francesco Spinacino - Italian lutenist and composer; earliest prints of lute music
- Frédéric Rossif (from anon. IPs) - French filmmaker, who mostly shot nature and history TV documentaries. He collaborated with Vangelis on numerous occasions, and the famous La petite fille de la mer was created for his series L'Apocalypse des animaux (see L'Apocalypse des Animaux (album)).
- Friedrich Krebs (organ builder) - early organ builder (stub)
- Friedrich Suppig - an eccentric theorist and composer of the early 18th century
- Gaspard Corrette (translated from fr:Gaspard Corrette) - French organ school composer
- German organ schools
- Gilles Jullien, (translated from fr:Gilles Jullien) - French organ school composer
- German organ schools
- Giovanni Valentini (partly translated from de:Giovanni Valentini) - early 17th century Italian composer. He experimented with instrumentation, harmony and rhythm, and composed some of the earliest pieces that used irrational time signatures. Also, he taught Johann Kaspar Kerll.
- Heinrich Traxdorf - early organ builder (stub)
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - probably the most influential Dutch composer of the 17th century: his pupils established the North German organ school, which eventually produced Buxtehude and, well, Bach, with whom Sweelinck shares the love for the didactic and the encyclopedic. (a work in progress)
- Joan Ambrosio Dalza - 16th century lutenist and composer; his is some of the earliest surviving Italian lute music (also had to create Piva (dance) for that one)
- Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer - German composer of the early 18th century; an important influence on JS Bach and on German music of the time in general.
- Johann Erasmus Kindermann - a representative of the so-called Nuremberg school; precursor to Pachelbel. Composed some of the first harpsichord suites.
- Johann Heinrich Buttstett - the most important pupil of Johann Pachelbel. He experimented with form and melody, and influenced Bach's famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565. Unfortunately, out of about 1000 compositions, only a few dozen survive, mostly generic chorale preludes.
- Johann Jakob Froberger - one of the best 17th century composers, "inventor" of the keyboard suite. The impact of Froberger's work was so big that his music was studied even by Mozart and Beethoven (although apparently they only knew his contrapuntal work, not his suites). (a work in progress)
- Johann Kaspar Kerll - a South German composer of mid-17th century. Kerll's output is very varied and uneven, to my ears, but he was an excellent composer with a fantastic grasp of counterpoint; his Modulatio organica is frequently referred to as some of the finest organ writing before Bach. He was also the first German composer to write organ chaconnes and passacaglias (only one of each survives, however), his contribution to the genre greatly influenced Johann Pachelbel.
- Johann Pachelbel - the most important composer of the South German school. He established the so-called Central German school and influenced the young JS Bach. Pachelbel was the first major composer to concentrate on the fugue as a separate genre (he wrote more than 100 fugues); he also invented a new type of chorale prelude. My favorite composer. (a work in progress)
- Amalia Pachelbel (partially translated from de:Amalia Pachelbel), Hexachordum Apollinis, List of compositions by Johann Pachelbel, Musicalische Sterbens-Gedancken, St. Rochus Cemetery, Nuremberg (translated from de:Rochusfriedhof (Nürnberg)), St. Sebaldus Church (partly translated from de:St. Sebald (Nürnberg))
- Johann Sebastian Bach - I didn't write that (I'd love to, but I have no sources), but I contributed to a number of articles on related topics:
- Johann Staden - 17th century German composer; established the so-called Nuremberg school, which eventually led to Johann Pachelbel.
- Johann Ulrich Steigleder - an obscure South German composer of the early 17th century. He died young, but created some very impressive keyboard works. Particularly his ricercars are very innovative for their time.
- Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger - one of the best composers for lute; early 17th century. Controversial because of his unusual approach to rhythm, structure, and counterpoint in general.
- John Cage - one of the most important 20th century composers. Cage loved sounds as such, didn't like functional harmony and was interested in the Eastern notion of accepting reality instead of trying to change it. So he composed using chance procedures and found sounds. Cage's work is frequently labelled as "controversial" or "not music"; to me his views are crystal clear and I have no problem at all with what he did. (a work in progress)
- A Flower, Cheap Imitation, Construction (Cage), Etudes Australes, Etudes Boreales, Freeman Etudes, List of compositions by John Cage, Living Room Music, Music for Piano (Cage), Music of Changes, Nowth upon Nacht, Silence: Lectures and Writings, Six Melodies (Cage),
Sonatas and Interludes, Song Books (Cage), String Quartet in Four Parts, The Seasons (Cage), The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, Works for prepared piano by John Cage
- A Flower, Cheap Imitation, Construction (Cage), Etudes Australes, Etudes Boreales, Freeman Etudes, List of compositions by John Cage, Living Room Music, Music for Piano (Cage), Music of Changes, Nowth upon Nacht, Silence: Lectures and Writings, Six Melodies (Cage),
- Joseph Payne (musician) - British harpsichordist and organist. Payne made important early recordings of 15th-17th century music, recorded the complete works of Johann Pachelbel, and a lot of other obscure early music. I can't really say that he was a great performer (I don't agree with his interpretations in 8 cases out of 10, roughly), but I think his choice of repertoire deserves respect.
- Hans Tugi - early organ builder (stub)
- Howard Skempton - a contemporary composer who composes beautiful and melodic.. avantgarde music, using modified chance procedures and improvisation. He studied with Cornelius Cardew.
- Louis Archimbaud - a recently discovered French composer from Carpentras. He wrote simple, song-like melodies in a very attractive style, a somewhat simplified version of the French organ tradition.
- Louis Couperin - French composer of mid-17th century. His organ music remained unknown until the 1950s, and then was not available to researchers until the 1990s. Today he is recognized as the composer who shaped the French organ school with his numerous innovations; unfortunately, he died young.
- Messe de la Pentecôte - an organ work by Olivier Messiaen, probably the only truly important organ composer of the 20th century.
- Nicolas Lebègue (translated from fr:Nicolas Lebègue),
- Peeter Cornet - a Flemish composer, contemporary of Sweelinck and every bit as interesting. Unfortunately, very few of his works survive and they are rarely recorded.
- Peter Breisiger - early organ builder (stub)
- Prelude (music)
- Puddle Lane - a 1980s British pre-school children's television programme, and a series of books based on that programme.
- Sebastian Anton Scherer - a South German composer of the 17th century. He published a somewhat interesting collection of keyboard music, and also a collection of pieces for lute (now lost) - this is why I got interested in him; you don't normally see composers who played keyboards and lute
- Simon Lohet - Dutch composer of the early 17th century; the first to write keyboard fugues.
- Stephan Kaschendorf - early organ builder (stub)
- Unmeasured prelude - a type of keyboard prelude with free notation, invented by Louis Couperin.
- Well-Tempered Clavier - I just added a section on Bach's precursors.
- Willi Apel - German-born musicologist; authored numerous classic books on early music, such as The History of Keyboard Music to 1700 and Gregorian Chant.
