Application to the Council of the City of Leipzig
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-7117.rt.2018.146610Keywords:
historical musicology, German translation, Johann Sebastian Bach, St. Thomas School, and Leipzig churchesAbstract
This is a translation by Rubens Russomanno Ricciardi and Dorothea Hofmann, with commentary notes, of a manuscript application written by Bach in 1730 and addressed to the City Council of Leipzig. Albeit referring to sacred music, Bach focuses on the artistic conditions for the musical performance of its vocal and instrumental ensembles. He also vindicates a greater number of scholarships for his students, as well as stricter criteria in student admission to the St. Thomas Church school. Finally, Bach, in his pedagogy, divides the students into three categories: the employable, the not-yet-employable, and the unemployable.
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