BACH AND HIS ILLUSTRIOUS PREDECESSORS

Works by Kuhnau, Reinken, Buxtehude, Böhm, and Bach

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 – 7:30 p.m.

Young Bach drew abundantly from the myriad musical wells of his day, especially when it came to keyboard music. He greatly admired his fine German predecessors—Buxtehude, with whom he studied in Lübeck; Reinken and Böhm, whom he met in Hambourg and Lunebourg; and Kuhnau, whom he would succeed at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. All of them left behind a remarkable body of work, the loveliest of which are joined here by two French suites and the Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro, BWV 998, of their brilliant disciple.

Musicians

Venue

Bourgie Hall – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Ticket prices (taxes and service charges included)

  • Regular : 44 $
  • Museum Member : 38 $
  • 34 and under: 23 $ 

A coproduction with Bourgie Hall

Programme

KUHNAU, Biblical Sonata nº 4 en C minor, « Hiskia agonizzante e risanato »
REINCKEN, Harpsichord Suite nº 4 en C major
BUXTEHUDE, Prelude, fugue and postlude en G minor, BuxWV 163
BÖHM, Prelude, fugue and postlude in G minor
J. S. BACH
French Suites nos 4 and 5, BWV 815 and 816
Prelude, fugue and allegro in B flat minor, BWV 998

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