Leipzig and Germany

Question 1

What two things did Telemann link and how?

Answer 1

Concert culture and church life, advent concert series, collegium musicum (provided music for church and state), church concerts

Question 2

In what way was music central to the calendar in Leipzig?

Answer 2

Musical festivals and musical pieces accompanied feasts and religious occasions, strenghtening the religious calendar

Question 3

Example of music used to mark a specific date?

Answer 3

6 Lutheran Masses by Bach marked

Question 4

Accessibility to the lower classes?

Answer 4

Hymns and public concerts in churches, concerts in the evening

Question 5

Churches that Bach was kapellmeister at?

Answer 5

St Thomas, St Nicholas

Question 6

Why was there a vibrant musical culture in Germany in general?

Answer 6

1800 provinces in HRE, 1800 different courts - all want to be represented musically

Question 7

Audience approach to music in Germany?

Answer 7

Went for the music’s own sake, involved too because a lot of congregational singing from protestant hymns