Comparing Handel And Bach

Johann S. Bach was a classical composer and a very good performer. He was one of the best composers during the Baroque era and took the position of organist for many different places during his career. Bach was and is a very important person in the classical music genre.

Not only is George Frideric Handel's Water Music extraordinarily beautiful, it also helped to establish the orchestral suite as a legitimate art form. Written to be performed outside instead of in a theater, it remains one of the most outstanding compositions in Handel's catalogue. Even though it is somewhat overplayed, the Water Music continues to be a very popular work of art. By nature of the venue this great work was to be performed in, Handel had to be very original in orchestration. His strong usage of woodwinds and percussion influenced countless composers such as the wind music of Mozart, Holst, Strauss, Beethoven, Vaughn-Williams, and even Stravinsky. Handel's music proved that he

Bach’s complex compositional style incorporates religious and numerological symbols that fit perfectly together in a puzzle of musical code. Demanding unfaltering facility in dexterity, precise pitch, particularly in the multiple stoppings, as well as sensitivity to implied polyphonic and harmonic textures. These exceptional works may be the closest thing we have to a “perfect” composition, so why is it that musicians have drastically different alterations and interpretations of his works? It is as if quality, intensity, duration, and even pitch are subject to the performer’s adaptation. By mapping out these alterations performers make to Bach’s music, it becomes possible to map out their respective musical personalities.

Handel and Bach are considered two of the greatest composers of all time. However, when comparing the output of these two musicians, the diversity manifest in music in the era when they wrote immediately becomes apparent. Handel, although he used religious subject matter, is usually characterized as fundamentally a 'secular' composer. He composed for the concert hall, not the church, and primarily as a result of royal commissions. His music is strident, powerful, and large in scope. It is designed to entertain, rather than to spur contemplation (The pure power of Handel's 'Hallelujah Chorus', NPR, 2008). Bach, in contrast, often created music designed to be performed in sacred spaces. His music is more fluid and nuanced in style and designed more to spur contemplation and devotion rather than excite people's interest as a piece of entertainment.

Many musical scholars believe that J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel are the two most important, influential composers of the Baroque period. Both of these men were born in Germany in 1685, and since they came into existence around the same time, they share some similarities. As an introductory statement, Bach and Handel were born into two very different families. Handel did not come from a musical family; his father wanted him to study law. By age nine, his talent was too obvious for his father to ignore and Handel began to study with a local organist and composer. On the contrary, Bach came from a long line of musicians. Bach also had four sons which became gifted composers, in their own right. Bach, like Handel, also started as an organist

Both Bach and Handel were composers who were employed within the patronage system. However, there are some differences in the styles of the two men and how they dealt with the patronage system. The purpose of both men’s job was to create music often that would please their patron. There were also benefits that accompanied the patronage system. One advantage of working within the system was the food that it provided. The employees could be positive that they would never go hungry while they were composing music. Another advantage of working within the system was a shelter to live in. Artists were always provided within a home or a room of their own, so they could rest soundly and avoid unpleasant weather.

     Among the influential composers of baroque music, there have been few who have contributed so much in talent, creativity, and style as Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was a German organist and composer of the baroque era. Bach was born on March 21, 1685 in Eisenach, Thuringia and died July 28,1750. Bach revealed his feelings and his insights in his pieces. Bach’s mastery of all the major forms of baroque music (except opera) resulted not only from his genius talent, but also from his life long quest for knowledge. In some parts of Germany, the name, “Bach” became a synonym with the word, “musician.” Extremely talented in the art of baroque composition, Bach placed his heart, soul, and

2. Bach's music had different forms and styles that came together and were brought to perfection. He brought baroque music to the peak of its development. He left 48 Preludes and Fugues. This meant the keyboard would adopt a new equal temperament which made enabled all keys to be played equally.

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Treatises from the baroque era attest that Handel and his contemporaries expected musicians and vocalists to improvise and add ornaments. This album follows that tradition but updates it to include influences of jazz and world music traditions. Although their use of ornaments may not conform with the baroque treatises, the idea of turning baroque music into jazz transforms the performer into a creator of fresh new music that

Born in 1685 to Georg and Dorothea Handel in Halle, Germany, George Frideric Handel showed a love for music at a very young age. His father, however, believed that being a musician was not an honorable, high-paying profession, and would not allow him to play any instruments. He wanted him to become a law student. With his mother’s help, George continued to practice without his father’s knowledge. He was a very talented keyboard player, and when he as 7, he performed before the duke and his court in Weissenfels. There, he met organist and composer Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, who invited George to become his student. George’s disapproving father died when George was 11, and he continued to learn music.

George Frederic Handel a man that loved to compose music. Born on February 23, 1685, Son of Georg and Dorothea Handel of Halle, Saxony, Germany. His father went to Martin Luther university of Halle, Wittenberg, and became a barber and a Surgeon. He was attending grammar school but he had to stop when his father died. His mother was a stay at home Mom who supported Georges Music career.

During the later years of his life Bach gradually withdrew inwards, producing some of the most profound statements of the baroque musical form. Bach’s creative energy was conserved for the highest flights of musical expression: the Mass in b

George Frideric Handel was born in Halle, Germany on February 23, 1685. He expressed an interest in music at an early age. While his mother encouraged this love of music, his father, George Handel, was not supportive of him pursuing music as a career, and pushed him towards a career in law. However, when Handel was 9, a duke heard him playing the organ and persuaded his father to let Handel study under Friedrich Zachow (the organist at the Liebfrauenkirche at Halle) who instructed him in the organ as well as composing. Handels’ father died when he was 12, leaving him as the only son of that marriage. This put more responsibility on Handel to maintain his family, but it also relieved most of the objection of his music studies. In

Bach and Handel are often compared against each other as the great composers of the Baroque period. They both were masters of the Baroque music and wrote many pieces that are still part of the normal and required repertoire. However, Paul Henry Lang makes an argument against comparing these two composers together as well as an argument against the idea of Handel being a German national composer. Lang had extensive education in this field, and so he was able to argue these points with facts behind him.