![]() These typically follow a plan that had been established around the turn of the century by French composers who assembled instrumental movements from their stage works into standalone suites. Orchestral suites-or Overtures, as they were often called-were immensely popular in Germany during the second quarter of the eighteenth century. If Bach’s solo concertos and concerti grossi were still hybrids displaying characteristics of both one-on-a-part chamber music and truly symphonic music, his orchestral suites can be described as truly symphonic-large-scale in conception and boldly etched in their sectional orchestration. THE BACKSTORY Eighteenth-century orchestral suites were among the first real flowerings of the orchestra as a definable medium. INSTRUMENTATION: 2 oboes, 3 trumpets, timpani, strings (first violins, second violins, and viola), and bass continuo ![]() ![]() ![]() Theodore Thomas conducted at the first Cincinnati May Festival 1730, in Leipzig we have no information about its early performance history BORN: March 21, 1685, Eisenach, Thuringia (Germany)ĭIED: July 28, 1750, Leipzig, Saxony (Germany)ĬOMPOSED: ca. ![]()
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