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  Johann David Heinichen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Johann David Heinichen (April 17, 1683 - July 16, 1729) was a German Baroque composer and music theorist who brought the musical genius of Venice to the court of Augustus the Strong in Dresden.
Johann David Heinichen was born in the small village of Crössuln, near Weissenfels.
Heinichen enrolled in 1702 to study law at the University of Leipzig and in 1705-6 qualified as a lawyer (in the early 18th century the law was a favored route for composers; Kuhnau, Graupner and Telemann were also lawyers).
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 Johann David Heinichen
According to a sleeve note (BIS LP-8 "Clas Perhrsson"), Johann David Heinichen was called Germany's Jean-Philippe Rameau by his contemporaries.
As gleaned from Internet sources, Heinichen was a German composer who received his education at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where Johann Sebastian Bach was later to teach, serving as assistant to the then cantor, Kuhnau, and proceeding thereafter to the University of Leipzig.
Heinichen wrote operas in the earlier part of his career and moved to Italy with the express purpose of studying the art of Italian opera at its source.
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Johann David 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.
Heinichen wrote operas in the earlier part of his career and moved to Italy with the express purpose of studying the art of Italian oepra at its source.
Heinichen, in accordance with the demands of his employment, wrote a number of serenades and other celebratory pieces for voices and instruments.
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 Classical Net - Composers - Heinichen (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Heinichen's compositions for the Dresden court capture the spirit of their time and place, they mirror the legendary vitality, superabundance and self-confidence of his patron Augustus the Strong and never lose sight of their duty to represent the King-Elector to the world.
Johann Kuhnau was in the words of Schering one of the last great cantors "in whom an element of medieval universality was evident, who mastered music, law, theology, oratory, poetry, mathematics and foreign languages." Heinichen and Graupner were the first students with musical talent to come to Kuhnau.
Heinichen's compositions that remain despite the ravages of the bombardment by the Prussians and the greater devastation caused by the Allied bombing of Dresden in the Second World War are housed mainly in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek (Saxon Court Library), in short score form.
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 Heinichen, Johann David: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Student at the St. Thomas School under Bach's predecessor, Kuhnau, and later teacher of Graupner, Heinichen continued in 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).
Heinichen soon became Kapellmeister to the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland in Dresden.
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 Johann David Heinichen - Wikipedia
Über Heinichens Aufenthalt in Italien ist wenig bekannt.
Johann Adam Hiller berichtet in seiner Lebensbeschreibung berühmter Musikgelehrter und Tonkünstler (1784), dass Heinichen nach seiner Ankunft in Venedig einen Opernauftrag erhalten habe, jedoch um das Honorar betrogen worden sei.
Für Heinichens Ansehen spricht, dass Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel ihn in Venedig besuchte.
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 Classical Net - Composers - Heinichen
Heinichen's first big break came in 1709 with the invitation from Samuel Ernst Dobricht, Strungk's son-in-law and opera director in Leipzig to abandon his law career and write opera.
Little is known of Heinichen's professional life during this period, however we do know that his contemporaries at Dresden Johann Georg Pisendel and Quantz studied composition with him.
Heinichen's works were systematically catalogued by Dr Gustav Seibel in 1913 and Günther Hausswald in 1937 using a different system catalogued only the instrumental music.
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 NewOlde.com - Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729)
Contents: Johann David Heinichen: Te Deum and Pastorale per la Notte di Natale; Giovanni Alberto Ristori: Messa per il Santissimo Natale and Motetto pastorale; Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger: Praeludium in c minor; plus anonymous works.
In light of the "trumpet duet" without trumpet, it seems that Heinichen may have expected to have a trumpeter available, but in the absence of a trumpet, left the aria referring to the "tromba" with the usual trumpet intervals.
Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann David Heinichen, Alessandro Marcello, Antonio Vivaldi, and Johann Christian Schickhardt.
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 Johann David Heinichen - Wikipédia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Johann David Heinichen (né en 1683 près de Teuchern en Saxe-Anhalt et décédé le 16 juillet 1729 à Dresde), était un compositeur et théoricien de musique baroque.
Heinichen était un élève de Johann Kuhnau, Thomaskantor à Leipzig, après cette formation il se rendit en Italie.
En 1717, il devint collègue de Johann Sebastian Bach à la cour du prince Leopold de Anhalt-Cöthen, puis maître de la chapelle du roi de Saxonie Auguste II de Pologne où il a pour collègues les violonistes Francesco Maria Veracini, Johann Georg Pisendel et le flûtiste Johann Joachim Quantz.
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The first depiction of keys as points a fifth apart on such a circle is Johann David Heinichen's "Musicalischer Circul" found in his treatise on thorough-bass accompaniment at the keyboard,...
28 JOHANN DAVID HEINICHEN The year before his death the musician Johann David Heinichen (1683- 1729) published at his own expense one of the...
From 'what source other than the composer itself does [the basso continuo] spring forth?' asks Johann David Heinichen; 'the thorough bass', he adds, 'like composition itself, leads to the complete investigation of the entire musical edifice'.
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Heinichen: Dresden Wind Concertos /Fiori Musicali * Albert ~ Johann David Heinichen
Heinichen was not only a contemporary of Bach he also moved in the same circles.
The main interest on this 2CD set, the oratorio Nicht das Band das dich bestricket, was first performed in Dresden the very same Sunday in 1724 on which Bach premiered his St. John Passion in Leipzig, and after Heinichen (two years his senior) died Bach applied for the higher profile vacant position in Dresden.
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 Johann David Heinichen - Classical music composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Johann David Heinichen, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner, Carl Maria von Weber
Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Johann David Heinichen, Johann Pachelbel, Johann Joachim Quantz, Georg Philipp Telemann, Antonio Vivaldi
The German Choral Church Compositions of Johann David Heinichen, 1683-1729 (American University Studies.
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 Thorough-Bass Accompaniment According to Johann David Heinichen - University of Nebraska Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729) was a distinguished composer, a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, and Cappellmeister at the court of August I in Dresden.
It is a fund of information about many complex problems confronting musicians in the performance and interpretation of Baroque music, including meters, embellishments, dissonance, particular complications for recitative, and use of the figured bass.
Buelow provides translations of key sections of the treatise, explains its historical significance, clarifies Heinichen's obscurities, and relates the treatise to other musical theories and practices of the Baroque, including those of Gasparini, Mattheson, and the Bachs.
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Heinichen: Dresden Wind Concertos /Fiori Musicali * Albert
Johann David Heinichen was born two years before Bach and Handel and two years after Telemann.
I had assumed the recordings were made in a small cathedral setting and was surprised to find they were made in the studios of Cologne Radio.
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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Johann David Heinichen, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Felix Mendelssohn, et al.
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 Klassika: Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729): Werkverzeichnis (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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Die Auflistung der Werke von Johann David Heinichen ist noch nicht vollständig und wird nach und nach durch die Autoren von Klassika ergänzt.
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Reviews - Johann David Heinichen - Classical Music Recordings - CD, DVD, SACD
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Works by Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar, Christoph Graupner, Johann David Heinichen, Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, & J.S. Bach
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