Baroque

BWV 147 Chorale Prelude (Arr: David Russell) by Johann Sebastian Bach (Guitar Tab)

BWV 147 Chorale Prelude (Arranged by David Russell) by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) In the early 1700s, Bach’s chorales enchanted listeners with their inventive harmonies, chromaticism, contrapuntal motion, and changes of tonal center. Since that time, music students the world over have studied the chorales as a paragon of “common practice” harmony and voice leading. …

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Aria (Deutsches Magnificat (TVWV 9:18)) by Georg Philipp Telemann

Aria Deutsches Magnificat (TVWV 9:18) by Georg Philip Telemann (1681-1767) Georg Philip Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family’s wishes. He held important positions in Leipzig, Żary, Eisenach, and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721, where he became musical director of …

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BWV 244 St. Matthew Passion (Affettuoso) by Johann Sebastian Bach (Guitar Tab)

BWV 244 St. Matthew Passion (Affettuoso) by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity.

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