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Johann Georg Pisendel (December 26, 1687 - November 25, 1755) was a German Baroque musician, violinist and composer who for many years led the Court Orchestra in Dresden, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe.
Pisendel was born in Cadolzburg, a small town near Nuremberg, where his father Simon Pisendel was the cantor and organist.
At the age of nine, Johann Georg became a choirboy at the court chapel of Ansbach.
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 AMARCORDES - Pisendel
Pisendel entered the Ansbach court chapel as a chorister in 1697, and six years later became a violinist in the court orchestra.
From January 1712, Pisendel was employed as a violinist with the Dresden court orchestra.
Pisendel was also admired for his success as an orchestral director, in which his precision and thoroughness played a major part.
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 CD reviews
Johann Georg Pisendel was one of the most famous violinists in Germany in the first half of the 18th century.
Pisendel’s fame was not in the first place based on his skills as a violinist, but first and foremost as leader of the court orchestra in Dresden.
His friend Johann Friedrich Agricola reports that Pisendel was extremely critical of his own works: "He was never satisfied with his own work but always wanted to improve it; indeed, he reworked it more than one time.
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 Pisendel Violin Sonatas CPO 999 982-2 [JV]: Classical CD Reviews- August 2004 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Johann Georg Pisendel was one of the most famous violinists in Germany in the first half of the 18th century.
Pisendel’s fame was not in the first place based on his skills as a violinist, but first and foremost as leader of the court orchestra in Dresden.
His friend Johann Friedrich Agricola reports that Pisendel was extremely critical of his own works: "He was never satisfied with his own work but always wanted to improve it; indeed, he reworked it more than one time.
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 Johann Georg Pisendel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is thought that Pisendel studied the violin with Torelli.
Pisendel was an enthusiastic member of the student Collegium musicum founded by Telemann and they became close friends.
However slight the number of his own compositions, the influence of Johann Georg Pisdendel on music was great.
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 Classical Net - Composers - Pisendel
Johann Georg Pisendel was born on the 26
Pisendel is known to have performed a violin concerto by Albinoni with the collegium musicum at this time.
Pisendel is believed to have shown Johann Sebastian Bach a sonata of his composition in A minor for unaccompanied violin following his Venetian trip which has been claimed (plausibly) as the model for Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin.
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 March 18, 1996 - Library of Congress Information Bulletin
The baroque period began in Saxony with the reign of Elector Prince Johann Georg II (1656-1680), who was responsible for many of the grand buildings that transformed the medieval city.
Prince Johann Georg brought Italian operas and French plays, including Moliere's, to court and they were performed at the opera house as well as at festivals and contests in the princely residences.
In 1685, Johann Georg III lured a prima donna to Dresden from the court of the duke of Mantua; she was the Hofkapelle's first female singer.
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 Ensemble Voltaire - early music
Beginning with Reinhard Keiser’s adventurous orchestrations of his operas and pasticcios, and moving on to J.S Bach, whose use of (and in the case of the oboe da caccia, invention of) wind instruments for their unique colors, woodwind writing was very advanced and clearly demonstrates access to a pool of highly skilled professional players.
Georg Philipp Telemann was the master of the quartet—he wrote over 40 –and they include a wide range of instrumental combinations.
Johann Georg Pisendel was the foremost violinist in Germany in the 1720’s through 1740’s.
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 Johann Georg Pisendel - Definition, explanation
Johann Georg Pisendel (December 26, 1687 - November 25, 1755) was a musician of the Baroque period.
Pisendel was born in Cadolzburg, and became a chorister at the court chapel of Ansbach.
On the way, he met Johann Sebastian Bach at Weimar, and once in Leipzig was introduced to Georg Philipp Telemann, who became his close friend.
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The youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach by his second wife, Johann Christian Bach was born in Leipzig in 1735 and on the death of his father in 1750 moved to Berlin to live with his brother C.P.E. Bach.
Johann Christian Bach wrote a number of orchestral works, some for the concerts that he organised in the Hanover Street concert rooms in London.
The Bohemian composer Johann Stamitz, a versatile performer on a number of instruments, is chiefly known for his work with the Mannheim orchestra, which he built into what a later visitor, the English Dr Burney, described as an army of generals.
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 Per Monsieur Pisendel [JV]: Classical CD Reviews- Apr 2003 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The German violinist Johann Georg Pisendel was the star of his time.
It is possible that Pisendel played the sonatas Vivaldi and Albinoni composed for him when he stayed in Venice.
As interesting as the programme on this CD is, and as positive as the attention given to Pisendel, the musicians haven't done the music justice.
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 Johann Georg Pisendel
Nach erstem musikalischen Unterricht durch den kam Johann Georg Pisendel 1697 in die Hofkapelle wo F. Pistocchi und G. seine Lehrer waren.
Pisendel" die Orginale befinden sich in der Dresdener Nach der Rückkehr nach Dresden betrieb er Kompositions-Studien bei J. Heinichen.
Johann Georg Pisendel war der bedeutendste deutsch Violinen-Virtuose der Durch großes geigerisches Können hohe charakterliche Qualitäten ausgezeichnete pädagogische Fähigkeiten erwarb er sich früh und Freundschaft zahlreicher bedeutender deutscher Musiker seiner Seiner Tätigkeit als Konzertmeister verdankte die Dresdner Hofkapelle ihren damaligen Ruhm.
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 Pisendel, Johann Georg: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
At nine years of age Pisendel became a chorister at the chapel of the Margrave of Ansbach, in Bavaria.
During a tour to Italy (1716-1717) Pisendel studied with Vivaldi, whereafter he became Dresden's advocate of the Italian concerto style.
Pisendel taught Johann Gottlieb, the elder of the Graun brothers.
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 Baroque Composers — Overview, individual biographies
Johann Georg Pisendel (born 1687, died at Dresden in 1755) was not only one of the foremost German violinists of the 18th century, but also a musical personality of international renown.
Johann Friedrich Reichardt wrote in 1774: "Good though the Berlin orchestra has always been, those people qualified to judge and who were acquainted with both always preferred the Dresden orchestra under the leadership of the renowned Concertmeister Pishändel." With the permission of the Court, Pisendel traveled to France in 1714 and to Italy in 1716/17.
We know that Pisendel played a concerto by Torelli for the Leipzig Collegium Musicum, while Dresden was, at that time, the center of the German cult of Vivaldi, under whose influence J.S. Bach composed his organ concertos.
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 CD Spotlight. Eminently listenable - Vivaldi's concertos dedicated to Johann Georg Pisendel, reviewed by Robert Hugill. ...
Johann Georg Pisendel was a German violin virtuoso based at the Dresden court of the Elector of Saxony.
Whilst working for the Elector, Pisendel travelled to Venice and during his stay of around a year became a friend and pupil of Vivaldi.
It is the six concertos which were written for Pisendel that are presented, in dazzling fashion, on this disc by the young Italian group Ensemble Guidantus.
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 - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
Johann Georg Pisendel was born on the 26th December 1687 in Cadolzburg where his father was Cantor.
At the age of ten he joined the Ansbach court chapel as a chorister; by sixteen he was a violinist in the court orchestra and studying violin with
Pisendel is known to have performed a violin concerto by
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 Georg Melchior Hoffmann (Composer) - Short Biography
He was also conductor of the Leipzig civic opera, which had been in existence since 1693 and for which he wrote a number of works, and conducted in Leipzig public concerts and the Operntheater.
In 1709 he met the violin virtuoso Johann Georg Pisendel, who became leader of the orchestra of Hoffmann's Collegium.
During a longer stay in England he was represented by Georg Pisendel in Leipzig.
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 Carus-Verlag Stuttgart - Pisendel
The Concerto in D major and two sonatas by Johann Georg Pisendel for violin with basso continuo accompaniment have been handed down to us and have now been published for the first time by Carus.
Pisendel was the famous concert master of the Dresdner Hofkapelle, which was one of the leading orchestras in the first half of the 18th century.
Since he was the leading violinist of his time in Germany to whom renowned composers such as Vivaldi, Albinoni und Telemann dedicated pieces, these two sonatas, written for Pisendel’s own chosen instrument, present a challenge to performers as well as a valuable enrichment to baroque violin literature.
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 Johann Georg Pisendel - Wikipedia
Nach erstem musikalischen Unterricht durch den Vater kam Johann Georg Pisendel 1697 in die Ansbacher Hofkapelle, wo Francesco Antonio Pistocchi und Giuseppe Torelli seine Lehrer waren.
Pisendel“; die Originale befinden sich in der Sächsischen Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden.
Seiner Tätigkeit als Konzertmeister unter dem Dirigenten Johann Adolph Hasse verdankte die Dresdner Hofkapelle in der Zeit des „Dresdner Barock“ ihren europäischen Ruhm.
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 Biologie - Johann Georg Pisendel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Pisendel wurde als fünftes Kind einer Kantorsfamilie in Mittelfranken geboren.
Nach erstem musikalischen Unterricht durch den Vater kam Johann Georg Pisendel 1697 in die Ansbacher Hofkapelle, wo Francesco Antonio Pistocchi und Giuseppe Torelli seine Lehrer waren.
Pisendel"; die Originale befinden sich in der Sächsischen Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden.
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Pisendel was one of the leading violinists for the Dresden Court Orchest ra.
Pisendel was allowed to copy several works directly from Vivaldi and even received some original manuscripts as presents directly from the Italia n master.
Pisendel did not take advantage of Vivaldi's works but rather made sure that these works were secured with pride in the repertory of the court orchestra.
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 The Baroque German Violin Bow: A Lost Art
One of these was Bach’s good friend Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755), a former student of Vivaldi.
Stationed at the Dresden court, Pisendel visited Cöthen in 1719, ready to put his artistry on display - undoubtedly making use of music Bach had prepared for the occasion.
The violin bow then in use was curved and loosely strung, enabling the performer to touch the instrument’s four strings simultaneously.
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 iClassics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Johann David Heinichen enrolled in Leipzig's Thomasschule on March 30, 1696; according to the enrollment book he was 13 years old.
After this he moved to Weissenfels, an active musical center whose Kapellmeister Johann Phillip Kreiger (1649-1725) had studied in Italy and was regarded as a great composer of opera and cantatas.
Little is known of Heinichen's professional life during this period, however we do know that his contemporaries at Dresden Johann Georg Pisendel and Johann Joachim Quantz studied composition with him.
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 Vivaldi and the viola d’amore
The other likely performers are Johann Georg Pisendel, violinist and later Kapellmeister at the Saxon Court in Dresden and Vivaldi himself.
Pisendel visited Venice in 1716-17 with a party from the Saxon Court and knew Vivaldi well, having studied with him during his visit.
Pisendel took a large collection of Vivaldi’s music back to Dresden with him.
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Johann Andreas Schaitberger was born to Tobias Gabriel and Luise Margarethe in 1786, in the last years
At the age of ten he joined the Ansbach court chapel as a chorister; by sixteen he was a violinist in
Another famous Cadolzburger was Georg Friedrich Puchta, the founder of conceptual jurisprudence.
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 Carus-Verlag Stuttgart - Pisendel
Startseite > Komponisten > Anregungen zur Programmgestaltung > Musik aus Dresden > Komponisten aus Dresden > Pisendel
Von Johann Georg Pisendel, dem berühmten Konzertmeister der Dresdner Hofkapelle, des führenden Orchesters in der ersten Hälfte des 18.
Da Pisendel zu seiner Zeit der bedeutendste Violinspieler Deutschlands war, dem so bekannte Komponisten wie Vivaldi, Albinoni und Telemann Werke gewidmet haben, stellen die beiden Sonaten, die Pisendel für sein ureigenstes Instrument komponierte, eine besondere Herausforderung an die Interpreten und eine wertvolle Bereicherung der barocken Violinliteratur dar.
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