Talk:Johann Ludwig Krebs

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[edit] Gallant Style?

Why was this changed from Classical to Gallant? The page "Gallant" is linked to has nothing to do with any musical aesthetic. I'm changing this. Giamberardino 17:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

That is because an article on the Gallant style in music is needed. MAybe you as a musicologist should work on it.Galassi 23:04, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

You're needlessly complicating the point - very few people discuss "Gallant" music, or "Roccoco", because they are subsets of the late baroque/early classical period. "Gallant" is also seldom used with regards to German music, to the best of my knowledge, and more often French and Italian.

Further, Grove Music online states in its article on Krebs : "Krebs’s compositions are the more diverse in free forms, toccatas and trios, as well as in the variety of the chorale-based works. The organ works of the younger and more prolific Kittel (who also copied a great many of Krebs’s organ pieces) anticipate the new currents of pre-Classical change"

HOWEVER, I will concede that it makes mention to Gallant: His Concerto in A minor for two harpsichords is perhaps superior to the solo pieces; he wrote it for the Dresden court where he performed in 1753. Gerber’s account of his success is undoubtedly true, for Krebs’s inspiration remains remarkably high, not only in the lively dialogue of the outer movements but also in the appealing slow movement; here the fusion of Baroque and galant is extremely well contrived. Much the same is true of Krebs’s sonatas for one and two flutes and harpsichord, where again his contrapuntal skill saves him from writing music of merely empty elegance.

At any rate, that whole line needs a re-write; I think leaving both Gallant and Classical is a fair compromise. Giamberardino 02:31, 7 September 2007 (UTC)