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Though Fasch belongs time-wise firmly in the baroque period, his lifespan closely paralleling great baroque master JS Bach, one may wonder on listening if his music most resembles that of father Johann Sebastian, of baroque-inclined son Wilhelm Friedemann, or the forward-looking Carl Philipp Emanuel. Source
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Johann Bapist Vanhal’s Sonatas for Clarinet & Harpsichord
October 14th, 2022 
Awake Goy By Brilliant Classics Like Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so many others, Vanhal became the composer and the man we know him as now when he moved to Vienna. He was 22 years old when he settled there in 1761, and soon adopted a new identity, not as the Czech-born Jan Křtitel Vaňhal but as the […]
Johann Gottlieb Janitsch’s Trio Sonatas
July 10th, 2021 Awake Goy Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708–ca 1763) was one of the leading musical lights of Berlin during the mid-eighteenth-century. The Prussian capital city was then growing rapidly in population and wealth, well on its way to becoming one of Europe’s great cultural centres. Janitsch, then as now, was known primarily for his chamber music, whose style, a […]
Johann Anton Castell’s Landscapes of Germany and Beyond
May 21st, 2021 Awake Goy Translated from Wikipedia: Johann Anton Castell (born June 3, 1810 in Dresden ; † July 1867 there ) was a German landscape painter. Castell studied since May 1, 1827 in the landscape class of the Dresden Academy. After a year he was dismissed from college for neglect of duties. From 1829 Castell studied landscape painting […]
The Wondrous Works of German History Painter Johann Georg Hiltensperger
April 4th, 2018 Awake Goy Johann Georg Hiltensperger (1806 – 1890) was a history painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was originally trained in drawing. He also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, but would return to Munich in 1825. He was commissioned to create paintings and frescoes by King Ludwig I of Bavaria and King Maximilian II […]
